The Valencia Open Invitational 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 held in 1959 and was part of the PGA-sponsored Caribbean Tour, which began the previous year. It was held at Carabobo Country Club near

Valencia, Venezuela Valencia () is the capital city of Carabobo State and the third-largest city in Venezuela. The city is an economic hub that contains Venezuela's top industries and manufacturing companies. It is also the largest city in the Valencia-Maracay m ...

, from 5 to 8 February with prize money of US$10,000.

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led from the start after a first round of 64. Further rounds of 71-71-67 gave him victory by 11 strokes from

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, taking the first prize of US$1,500.

Winners

References

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