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Cavalcade of Golf

golf tournament formerly on the PGA Tour

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 3, 2024
Entity authorityQ19879053 ↗
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The Cavalcade Of Golf was a PGA Tour event that was played at the Shackamaxon Country Club in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. It was played for only a single year – 1955.

The tournament was won by Cary Middlecoff by two strokes over Sam Snead. It was Middlecoff's sixth and last victory of a career year that also included wins at the Masters and Western Open.

The purse was the richest ever offered at the time for a PGA Tour event held east of Chicago, and the second largest purse the pros would play for that year. The purse was $50,000 with $10,000 as the winner's share.

The course was designed by A. W. Tillinghast and opened in September 1916.

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The public source identifies “Cavalcade of Golf” as golf tournament formerly on the PGA Tour. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Cavalcade, Golf and golf.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1955, 1916—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Cavalcade, Golf and golf providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Cavalcade of Golf” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.