Tournament information | |
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Location | Ireland |
Established | 1957 |
Format | 72-hole stroke play |
Final year | 1965 |
Tournament record score | |
Aggregate | 268 Christy O'Connor Snr (1962) |
Final champion | |
Christy Greene |
The Hennessy Tournament was an Irish golf tournament played from 1957 to 1965. Christy O'Connor Snr won the event 5 times between 1957 and 1963.[1] The event was sponsored by Hennessy, a cognac distiller.
Total prize money was £500 in 1957, 500 guineas in 1958, 1960 and 1961, 750 guineas in 1962 and 1963 and £1,500 in 1965. In 1964 Hennessy sponsored a round-robin event, the Hennessy Round-robin Tournament which had prize money of £1,500.
Year | Venue | Winner | Score | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up | Ref |
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1957 | Woodbrook | Christy O'Connor Snr | 279 | 3 strokes | Jimmy Martin | [2] |
1958 | Clandeboye | Eric Brown | 279 | 1 stroke | Harry Bradshaw | [3] |
1959 | Cork | Ernie Jones | 278 | 1 stroke | Norman Drew | [4] |
1960 | Royal Dublin | Christy O'Connor Snr | 270 | 12 strokes | Christy Greene | [5] |
1961 | Balmoral | Christy O'Connor Snr | 276 | 7 strokes | Christy Greene Jimmy Henderson |
[6] |
1962 | Clandeboye | Christy O'Connor Snr | 268 | 17 strokes | Billy Kerr Jimmy Kinsella |
[7] |
1963 | Clandeboye | Christy O'Connor Snr | 277 | 3 strokes | Peter Alliss | [1] |
1964 | Replaced by the Hennessy Round-robin Tournament | |||||
1965 | Clandeboye | Christy Greene | 275 | 3 strokes | Christy O'Connor Snr | [8] |