The El Paso Open was a
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...
tournament on the
PGA Tour
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in the late 1920s and the 1950s. It was played at the El Paso Country Club in
El Paso, Texas
El Paso (; ; or ) is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States. The 2020 United States census, 2020 population of the city from the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, making it the List of ...
. In 1929,
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 ...
won with a score of 271, then a record for a 72-hole tournament.
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Winners
See also
* El Paso Open (a Ben Hogan Tour
The Korn Ferry Tour is the developmental tour for the U.S.-based PGA Tour, and features professional golfers who have either not yet reached the PGA Tour, or who have done so but then failed to win enough FedEx Cup points to stay at that level. T ...
event)
References
Former PGA Tour events
Golf tournaments in Texas
Sports competitions in El Paso, Texas
Recurring sporting events established in 1927
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1959
1927 establishments in Texas
1959 disestablishments in Texas
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