Daily Telegraph Foursomes Tournament

Daily Telegraph Foursomes
Tournament information
Location England
Established 1947
Month played September/October
Final year 1951
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

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

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 J. 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 &
James 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 D. Lawrie
600
(pro)
[5]

References

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