The La Gorce Open was a
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 ...
tournament on the
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 ...
from 1928 to 1931. It was held at the La Gorce Country Club in
Miami Beach, Florida.
Winners
*1931
Gene Sarazen
*1930
Bill Mehlhorn
William Earl Mehlhorn (December 2, 1898 – April 5, 1989) was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in its early days, and was at his best in the 1920s.
Mehlhorn was born in Elgin, Illinois and lived a majority of his life i ...
*1929
Horton Smith
Horton Smith (May 22, 1908 – October 15, 1963) was an American professional golfer, best known as the winner of the first and third Masters Tournaments.
Tournament career
Born in Springfield, Missouri, Smith turned professional in 1926 and w ...
*1928
Johnny Farrell
External links
La Gorce Country Club
Former PGA Tour events
Golf in Florida
Sports in Miami-Dade County, Florida
Miami Beach, Florida
Recurring sporting events established in 1928
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1931
1928 establishments in Florida
1931 disestablishments in Florida
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