Waco Turner Open

Waco Turner Open
Tournament information
Location	Burneyville, Oklahoma
Established	1961
Course(s)	Turner's Lodge
Par	72
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	US$20,000
Month played	April/May
Final year	1964
Tournament record score
Aggregate	276 Johnny Pott (1962)
To par	−16 as above
Final champion
	Pete Brown
Location map
	Turner's Lodge Location in the United States Turner's Lodge Location in Oklahoma

The Waco Turner Open was a PGA Tour event that was played in Burneyville, Oklahoma in the early 1960s.

The founder of the tournament, Waco Turner, was a millionaire Oklahoma oilman with a passion for golf. He started Turner's Lodge, a golf resort on what he hoped would flourish into a 2,700-acre (11 km²) grand development of 3,000 homes with a hotel, restaurants, tennis courts, swimming pools and an airstrip built around three lakes. The project ran into financial difficulties and the PGA left after the 1964 event.^[1]

The greatest claim to fame for the tournament is that in 1964 an African American golfer, Pete Brown, won an official PGA Tour event for the first time at this event.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The development, now called Falconhead Resort, has changed hands repeatedly in the ensuing decades, and only about 400 homes have been built on the 3,000 home sites.^[1]

Winners

Year	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1964	Pete Brown	280	−8	1 stroke	Dan Sikes
1963	Gay Brewer	280	−12	1 stroke	Ted Ball
1962	Johnny Pott	276	−16	6 strokes	Mason Rudolph
1961	Butch Baird	281	−7	1 stroke	Rex Baxter

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Streuli, Ted (April 12, 2006). "500 OK-based Falconhead Resort lots go on auction block". The Oklahoma City Journal Record. Retrieved November 21, 2007.
^ "The Year in Golf, 1964". Retrieved November 21, 2007.
^ "Pete Brown the Facts!". Archived from the original on May 17, 2008. Retrieved November 21, 2007.