The Dallas Open Tournament was a professional
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...
event in
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ...
played only in 1926.
It was held in late January at
Cedar Crest Country Club, south of central
Dallas
Dallas () is the List of municipalities in Texas, third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 ...
, and was won by
Macdonald Smith
Macdonald "Mac" Smith (March 18, 1890 – August 31, 1949) was one of the top professional golfers in the world from about 1910 into the mid-1930s. He was a member of a famous Scottish golfing family. Smith is regarded, based on his results, as on ...
at 298, three strokes ahead of runner-up
Al Espinosa
Abel Ruben "Al" Espinosa (March 24, 1891 – January 4, 1957) was an American professional golfer.
Biography
Espinosa was born on March 24, 1891 in Monterey, California. He was of Mexican American descent, and served in the U.S. Army in W ...
. The winner's share of the purse was
$800.
See also
*
Dallas Open,
PGA Tour
The PGA Tour (stylized in all capital letters as PGA TOUR by its officials) is the organizer of professional golf tours in the United States and North America. It organizes most of the events on the flagship annual series of tournaments also k ...
event since 1944
References
Former PGA Tour events
Golf in Texas
Sports in Dallas
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