The Bowmaker Tournament was an invitation
pro-am golf tournament played from 1957 to 1970. Except in the first and final years the tournament was held at
Sunningdale Golf Club
Sunningdale Golf Club is a golf club in Sunningdale, Berkshire, England, located approximately west-southwest of London.
Sunningdale Golf Club was founded in 1900 and has two eighteen hole golf courses: the Old Course, designed by Willie Park ...
. The main event was a 36-hole stroke play event for the professionals played over two days. There was also a better-ball event for the professional/amateur pairs.
The Bowmaker Tournament finished in 1970 but was replaced by the Sunbeam Electric Tournament which had the same format and was also played the week before
The Open Championship.
The Sunbeam Electric sponsorship lasted for just one year. In 1972 and 1973 they were the sponsors of the
Sunbeam Electric Scottish Open.
In the 1965 tournament
Kel Nagle
Kelvin David George Nagle AM (21 December 1920 – 29 January 2015) was an Australian professional golfer best known for winning The Open Championship in 1960. He won at least one tournament each year from 1949 to 1975.
Biography
Nagle was bor ...
started his final round with an
albatross
Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds related to the procellariids, storm petrels, and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacifi ...
two at the 492-yard first hole.
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Winners
References
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Golf tournaments in England