The Philadelphia Open Championship's PGA Tour Winners
First part of PGA Tour: 1917
Last part of PGA Tour: 1937
The list of tournament winners below covers only the span of its PGA Tour history, 1917-37. Other tournaments in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, later were part of the PGA Tour, however. There was the Philadelphia Inquirer Open in the 1940s, and, from 1963-80, the IVB Golf Classic (also called the Philadelphia Golf Classic).
As for the Philadelphia Open Championship, the biggest winners during that 1917-37 span were Clarence Hackney and Ed Dudley, who won three times each. Dudley was also runner-up to Hackney in 1931. And Hackney was twice runner-up himself, to Johnny Farrell in 1925 and, via playoff, in 1932.
PGA Tour Winners of the Philadelphia Open Championship
1917 — Jim Barnes, 3061918 — (tie) Pat Doyle, Arthur Reid (no playoff)
1919 — Emmet French
1920 — Frank MacNamara, 294
1921 — Willie Macfarlane, 294
1922 — Charles Hoffner
1923 — Clarence Hackney, 298
1924 — Joe Kirkwood Sr., 142 (def. Jock Hutchison and Charles Rowe in playoff)
1925 — Johnny Farrell, 292
1926 — Emmet French
1927 — Johnny Farrell, 296
1928 — Tommy Armour, 292
1929 — Ed Dudley, 295
1930 — Clarence Hackney, 295
1931 — Clarence Hackney, 147
1932 — George Griffin (def. Clarence Hackney in playoff)
1933 — Ed Dudley, 288
1934 — Herman Barron
1935 — Ted Turner, 292
1936 — Ed Dudley, 286 (def. Charles Lacey in playoff)
1937 — Leonard Dodson (def. Bruce Coltart in playoff)
Some nationally notable golfers won the tournament both before and after its PGA Tour years. In the earliest years those included Gil Nicholls in 1909 and 1912, Johnny McDermott in 1910 and 1911, and Tom McNamara in 1914 and 1915.
Post-1937, notable winners include Sammy Byrd in 1939, Ed Dudley in 1940, Gene Kunes in 1947, George Fazio in 1949, 1952, 1956, 1958 and 1959, Henry Williams Jr. in 1951 and 1955, Skee Riegel in 1960, Al Besselink in 1963 and 1966, and Jay Sigel in 1975, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1986 and 1987.
