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Daily Telegraph Foursomes Tournament

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Daily Telegraph Foursomes
Tournament information
LocationEngland
Established1947
Month playedSeptember/October
Final year1951
Final champion
Bill Cox and Walter McLeod

The Daily Telegraph Foursomes Tournament was a golf tournament played in England. The event was held annually from 1947 to 1951, and had total prize money of £2,100.

Detail

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32 professionals and 32 leading amateurs were invited and drawn into pairs. Five rounds of foursomes knock-out were played with one round on the first day and two rounds on the second and third days.

Winners

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Year Winners Country Venue Margin
of victory
Runners-up Winner's
share (£)
Ref
1947 Charlie Ward &
Ronnie White
 England
 England
Birkdale Golf Club 2&1 England Max Faulkner &
Scotland Donald Cameron
600
(pro)
[1]
1948 Charlie Ward &
Gerald Micklem
 England
 England
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club 19 holes Northern Ireland Fred Daly &
Scotland Morton Dykes
[2]
1949 Reg Horne &
Ronnie White
 England
 England
Moortown Golf Club 19 holes Scotland Jimmy Adams &
England Leonard Crawley
[3]
1950 Wally Smithers &
Jimmy Bruen
 England
 Ireland
Formby Golf Club 4&2 England Bill Branch &
Wales Mervyn Jones
[4]
1951 Bill Cox &
Walter McLeod
 England
 Scotland
Ganton Golf Club 19 holes Scotland Jimmy Adams &
Scotland Charles Lawrie
600
(pro)
[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Amateur golfers' high standard". The Glasgow Herald. 2 October 1947. p. 6.
  2. ^ "Success of Ward and Micklem". The Glasgow Herald. 4 October 1948. p. 5.
  3. ^ "White's splendid iron play at Moortown". The Glasgow Herald. 3 October 1949. p. 3.
  4. ^ "Bruen's fine return". The Glasgow Herald. 9 October 1950. p. 6.
  5. ^ "Scot's winning putt in Ganton golf final". The Glasgow Herald. 8 October 1951. p. 9.