News Chronicle Tournament | |
Location: | Brighton, England |
Establishment: | 1936 |
Course: | East Brighton Hollingbury Park |
Tour: | British PGA Order of Merit |
Format: | Stroke play |
Aggregate: | 266 Dick Burton (1949) |
Final Year: | 1951 |
Final Champion: | Ken Bousfield |
The News Chronicle Tournament was a professional golf tournament played in the Brighton area. It was a fixture on the British PGA tournament circuit from 1936 to 1951.
Year | Winner | Score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | Winner's share (£) | Venue | Ref | |
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1936 | 283 | 1 stroke | 200 | East Brighton | [1] | |||
1937 | 268 | 2 strokes | 200 | East Brighton | [2] | |||
1938 | 300 | 2 strokes | 200 | East Brighton | [3] | |||
1939 | 279 | 5 strokes | 200 | East Brighton | [4] | |||
1940–44: No tournament due to World War II | ||||||||
1945 | 301 | 4 strokes | Hollingbury Park | [5] | ||||
1946 | 283 | 1 stroke | Hollingbury Park | [6] | ||||
1947 | 275 | 5 strokes | 350 | Hollingbury Park | [7] | |||
1948 | 280 | Tie | align=center rowspan=2 | Shared 350 and 150 | Hollingbury Park | [8] | ||
1949 | 266 | 12 strokes | 350 | Hollingbury Park | [9] | |||
1950 | 277 | 8 strokes | 350 | Hollingbury Park | [10] | |||
1951 | 279 | 1 stroke | 350 | Hollingbury Park | [11] |