The Sherwood Forest Foursomes Tournament was a professional golf tournament played at

Sherwood Forest Golf Club Sherwood may refer to: Places Australia *Sherwood, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane *Sherwood, South Australia, a locality * Shire of Sherwood, a former local government area of Queensland *Electoral district of Sherwood, an electoral district fro ...

near Mansfield,

Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The trad ...

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. The event was held just once, on 28 and 29 August 1959, and had total prize money of £2,100. The event was sponsored by Sir Stuart Goodwin, a Yorkshire steel industrialist. A total of 48 players qualified for the final stage through a regional system of 36-hole individual stroke-play. These 48 were drawn into 24 pairs for the final stage. There were four rounds of stroke-play.

Dennis Smalldon Dennis Frederick George Smalldon (1926 – 12 September 1959) was a Welsh professional golfer. He was killed in a road traffic accident at the age of 33. Smalldon won the Welsh Professional Championship in 1953, 1956 and 1959 and had won the She ...

, one of the winning pair, died two weeks later after being injured in a road-traffic accident on 6 September.

Winners

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