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IVB-Philadelphia Golf Classic

golf tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ5975462 ↗
Source-derived summary

The IVB-Philadelphia Golf Classic was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour. It was played at the Whitemarsh Valley Country Club in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1980.

Tournament highlights

1963: Arnold Palmer wins the inaugural version of the tournament by one shot over Lionel Hebert. The $26,000 first prize was the most Palmer collected for a win up to that time.

1965: Jack Nicklaus successfully defends his title. He eagles the 71st hole to win by 2 shots over Joe Campbell and Doug Sanders.

1966: Jack Nicklaus narrowly misses winning in Philadelphia for the third consecutive year. Don January beats him by one shot.

1969: A four-player sudden death playoff is won by Dave Hill when he makes an eleven-foot birdie putt on the first extra hole to defeat Tommy Jacobs, Gay Brewer, and R. H. Sikes.

1973: Tom Weiskopf wins for the second consecutive week.

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“IVB-Philadelphia Golf Classic” enters the record as golf tournament. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what IVB-Philadelphia, Golf and Classic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1963, 1980, 1965, 1966—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around IVB-Philadelphia, Golf and Classic.
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This entry incorporates text from “IVB-Philadelphia Golf Classic” 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.