- Arlington Hotel Open
The Arlington Hotel Open was a
PGA Tour event that was played for four years in the late 1950s at the Arlington golf courses of the Hot Springs Country Club adjacent to the Arlington Hotel, now known as the Arlington Resort Hotel and Spa, a 484-room resort in theOuachita Mountains ofHot Springs National Park inArkansas . [cite web | title=The Arlington Resort Hotel and Spa | url=http://www.arlingtonhotel.com | accessdate=2007-11-18] The Majestic Golf Course was constructed byWillie Park, Jnr. in 1898. [cite web | title=The Arlington Golf Courses-Majestic | url=http://www.arlingtonhotel.com/majestic_golf.html | accessdate=2007-11-18] The Arlington Golf Course was designed and built by William Diddle in 1927. [cite web | title=The Arlington Golf Courses-Arlington | url=http://www.arlingtonhotel.com/arlington_golf.html | accessdate=2007-11-18] Golf legendJimmy Demaret won the last of his 31 PGA Tour wins at this event in 1957. [cite web | title=The Year in Golf, 1957 | url=http://golf.about.com/cs/historyofgolf/p/timeline1957.htm | accessdate=2007-11-18]A PGA Tour event that was played at the Hot Springs Country Club both before and after the Arlington Hotel Open was known as the Hot Springs Open.
Winners
Hot Springs Open
*1961Doug Sanders
*1960 Bill CollinsArlington Hotel Open
*1959Gene Littler
*1958Julius Boros
*1957Jimmy Demaret
*1956Billy Maxwell Hot Springs Open
*1955Bo Wininger References
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