Fort Wayne Open (PGA Tour event)
- Fort Wayne Open (PGA Tour event)
The Fort Wayne Open, which played for one year as Fort Wayne Invitational, was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour in the 1950s. It was played at the Orchard Ridge Country Club in 1950 before moving to the Fort Wayne Elks Lodge No. 155 golf course, now known as the "Elks Course" at Coyote Creek Golf Club, an 18-hole, par-72 championship course built in 1928 and opened in 1929.Golf legend Arnold Palmer earned his first professional paycheck ($145) at this event in 1955. [cite news | title=Elks Country Club going private, will be renamed Coyote Creek | publisher=Fort Wayne Daily News | url=http://www.fwdailynews.com/articles/2007/02/23/greater_fort_wayne/news/doc45dee93769aa4580476484.txt | accessdate=2007-12-08] [cite web | title=This is Fort Wayne:Golf | url=http://www.allbusiness.com/services/business-services/4065188-1.html | accessdate=2007-12-08]
Winners
Fort Wayne Open
*1956 Art Wall, Jr.Fort Wayne Invitational
*1955 Dow FinsterwaldFort Wayne Open
*1954 Doug Ford
*1953 Art Wall, Jr.
*1952 Jimmy Clark
*1951 Jim Ferrier
*1950 Lloyd Mangrum
ee also
*History of sports in Fort Wayne, Indiana
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