The Empire State Open was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour from 1950 to 1952. It was played in the Albany, New York area at two different courses. In 1950 and 1951, it was played at the Shaker Ridge Country Club in Loudonville . For its final year, it moved to the Normanside Country Club in Delmar .
5-549: In 1950, Skip Alexander won in an 18-hole playoff over Ky Laffoon . In 1951, Buck White won by two strokes over Doug Ford . In 1952, Jim Ferrier won by six strokes over Sam Snead . He shot an 18-under-par, 262 to threaten the PGA Tour record of 259 for a 72-hole tournament. This article on an American golf tournament is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to sports in New York
10-661: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Skip Alexander Stewart Murray "Skip" Alexander, Jr. (August 6, 1918 – October 24, 1997) was an American collegiate and professional golfer . Alexander was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , but was raised in Durham, North Carolina . He attended Duke University from 1937 to 1940. During that time, he helped Duke win the Southern Conference Championship in golf three times, won
15-710: The individual conference title twice, was a two-time Southern Intercollegiate medalist and twice reached the quarter-finals of the National Intercollegiate Tournament. Alexander turned professional in 1941 and joined the PGA Tour in 1946. In 1948 he won his first tour event, the Tucson Open . He would win twice more on tour. On September 24, 1950, Alexander was the lone survivor of a plane crash in Evansville, Indiana , in which he
20-590: The thought was that it might well be a throwaway match, it would at least save their other players from playing Panton, who was beating everyone at that time. Alexander, with both hands bleeding, won the match by the largest margin in Ryder Cup history to that point, 8 & 7. Alexander served as the golf pro at Lakewood Country Club (now known as St. Petersburg Country Club) in St. Petersburg, Florida starting in 1951, and served in that capacity for 34 years. Alexander
25-528: Was severely burned over 70% of his body. After 17 operations, one of which was to permanently freeze his badly burned fingers around the grip of a golf club instead of removing them, he returned to help the United States win the 1951 Ryder Cup . Sam Snead , the Ryder Cup captain that year, paired Alexander against the British champion, John Panton , in the singles portion of the competition. Although
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