1949 Tucson Open Results

Rank Player Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Total Winnings
1 Lloyd Mangrum 64 66 69 64 263 $2,000
2 Al Smith 68 67 65 68 268 $1,400
T3 Johnny Bulla 65 67 65 68 269 $1,000
T3 Frank Stranahan* 66 66 69 68 269 $0
5 Lew Worsham 67 67 68 67 270 $800
T6 Jimmy Demaret 69 67 67 66 271 $700
T6 Skee Riegel* 66 64 70 71 271 $0
T8 Fred Haas, Jr. 66 70 68 68 272 $580
T8 Eric Monti 65 68 68 71 272 $580
T10 Jim Ferrier 68 69 71 65 273 $348
T10 Milton Marusic 69 69 69 66 273 $348
T10 George Fazio 69 68 67 69 273 $348
T10 Vic Ghezzi 69 66 68 69 273 $348
T10 Johnny Revolta 66 71 68 68 273 $348
T15 Johnny Palmer 68 68 71 67 274 $100
T15 Buck White 70 67 70 67 274 $100
T15 Toney Penna 67 66 70 71 274 $100
T15 Jim Turnesa 66 66 71 71 274 $100
T15 Clayton Heafner 69 68 66 71 274 $100
T20 Bob Hamilton 73 67 68 67 275 $55
T20 Marty Furgol 70 68 68 69 275 $55
T20 Dutch Harrison 70 69 67 69 275 $55
T20 Jack Harden 69 69 68 69 275 $55
T20 Dave Douglas 66 67 71 71 275 $55
T20 Sam Snead 73 67 68 67 275 $55
T26 Ted Kroll 66 71 73 66 276 $0
T26 Bill Nary 71 65 70 70 276 $0
T28 Jackson Bradley 68 73 69 67 277 $0
T28 George Buck 67 68 71 71 277 $0
T28 Dale Andreason 70 70 66 71 277 $0
T28 Chick Harbert 65 69 73 70 277 $0
T28 Mike Dietz 68 70 69 70 277 $0
T33 Jerry Barber 67 74 68 69 278 $0
T33 Fred Hawkins 66 65 71 76 278 $0
T33 Jimmy Hines 69 76 67 66 278 $0
37 Armand Farina 71 68 71 69 279 $0
T38 Cary Middlecoff 71 70 70 69 280 $0
T38 Otto Greiner 73 69 68 70 280 $0
T38 Jimmy Ukauka 68 68 74 70 280 $0
T38 Emery Zimmerman 69 71 70 70 280 $0
T38 Rod Munday 68 72 68 72 280 $0
T38 George Schoux 66 69 70 75 280 $0
T38 Glenn Teal 67 68 70 75 280 $0
T38 Al Zimmerman 70 69 73 68 280 $0
T38 Buck Luce 71 70 67 72 280 $0
T47 Dick Hopwood 71 67 72 72 282 $0
T47 Ellsworth Vines 69 70 69 74 282 $0
T50 Max Evans 71 68 71 73 283 $0
T50 Joe Brown 71 76 67 74 283 $0
T50 Lawson Little 71 67 70 75 283 $0
53 Bob Rosburg* 75 71 68 70 284 $0
T54 Doug Ford* 71 75 69 70 285 $0
T54 Al Brosch 66 70 75 74 285 $0
T54 Clarence Doser 70 72 70 73 285 $0
T57 Wlater McElroy* 72 69 71 74 286 $0
T57 Maurice Walsh 71 69 72 74 286 $0
59 Horton Smith 68 67 77 77 289 $0
T60 Dick Taylor* 76 76 74 74 300 $0
T60 Bill Taylor* 74 74 75 77 300 $0
T60 Blake Johnson* 73 76 76 75 300 $0
63 Gordon Hammond* 73 77 77 75 302 $0
64 Blake West* 74 76 81 74 304 $0
65 Chet Goldberg* 74 77 73 81 305 $0
66 Bill Goldberg* 79 81 79 74 313 $0

*Amateur


Played February 3-6, 1949 at El Rio Golf and Country Club

Purse: $10,000

Tuesday practice round highlights: Johnny Palmer shot a 63, Sam Snead a 64, Johnny Bulla a 65 and Cary Middlecoff shot 66.

70 pros played in a qualifying round at Randolph on Tuesday for 51 slots. 18 broke par, and the cutoff was 75.

There were so many entrants for the pro-am that it was played in two rounds, Tuesday and Wednesday. On Tuesday, Jimmy Ukauka, the pro at the Hilo, Hawaii Country Club, shot 62. He one-putted 15 greens. The pro-am best-ball event was won by Leland Gibson of Kansas City and amateur Billy Bell, Jr. of Tucson.

Lloyd Mangrum set a new 72-hole course record with a 17-under-par 163. He is the brother of Ray Mangrum who won the inaugural event in 1945.

First round leader: Lloyd Mangrum with 64.

Second round leaders: Lloyd Mangrum and National Amateur Champion Robert "Skee" Riegel at 130.

Third round leader: Lloyd Mangrum with a record 12-under-par 198.

On February 2, 1949, the day before the first round of the Tucson Open at El Rio, Ben Hogan was injured when a bus struck the car carrying Hogan and his wife head-on. He had decided to skip the Tucson Open that year, opting to drive from Phoenix to his home in Texas instead. Hogan's injuries were severe and he was not expected to ever walk again. He won the U.S. Open the following year (1950). He only played limited schedules thereafter. He never again played in the Tucson Open. Ironically, Lloyd Mangrum, the 1949 Tucson Open winner, was also injured in an auto accident in November of 1949.