Senior Service Tournament
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Established | 1962 |
| Final year | 1966 |
| Final champion | |
| Cobie Legrange | |
The Senior Service Tournament was a professional golf tournament. The event was played from 1962 and 1966 and was sponsored by Gallaher Ltd, a tobacco company which made Senior Service cigarettes.
Winners
| Year | Winner | Country | Venue | Score | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up | Winner's share (£) |
Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Neil Coles |  England |
Dalmahoy Golf Club (& Ratho Park Golf Club) |
277 | 1 stroke |  Denis Hutchinson Kel Nagle Peter Thomson |
2,000 | [1] |
| 1963 | Dave Ragan |  United States |
Dalmahoy Golf Club | 271 | 2 strokes | Peter Alliss |
2,000 | [2] |
| 1964 | No tournament | [3] | ||||||
| 1965 | Christy O'Connor Snr |  Ireland |
Dalmahoy Golf Club | 203 | 1 stroke | Hugh Boyle Jacky Cupit |
2,000 | [4] |
| 1966 | Cobie Legrange | South Africa |
Northumberland Golf Club | 272 | 2 strokes | Claude King |
2,500 | [5] |
The 1965 event was reduced to 54 holes because of bad weather. The first round was abandoned while the second round was played on the short West Course at Dalmahoy.
References
- ^ "Coles fine win at Dalmahoy". The Glasgow Herald. 24 September 1962. p. 4.
- ^ "Ragan wins last big tournament". The Glasgow Herald. 23 September 1963. p. 10.
- ^ "Tournament off". The Glasgow Herald. 8 February 1964. p. 5.
- ^ "Climax to Senior Service event". The Glasgow Herald. 2 August 1965. p. 4.
- ^ "Legrange Newcastle success". The Glasgow Herald. 26 September 1966. p. 10.