Eastern Open Invitational

Eastern Open Invitational

Tournament information
Location	Lutherville, Maryland
Established	1950
CourseTemplate:Pluralize from text	Pine Ridge Golf Club
Par	72
TourTemplate:Pluralize from text	PGA Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	Template:Currency
Month played	June
Final year	1962
Tournament record score
Aggregate	273 Dave Ragan (1959) 273 Gene Littler (1960)
To par	−15 as above
Final champion
Template:Flagicon Doug Ford
Location map

The Eastern Open Invitational, first played as the Eastern Open, was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour that was played in Maryland in the 1950s and early 1960s. The first nine events were played at Mt. Pleasant Municipal Golf Club in Baltimore, an 18-hole par-71 public course designed by Gus Hook and opened in 1933. For the next three years beginning with the 1959 event, the tournament moved to the new Pine Ridge Golf Club in Lutherville, three miles north of downtown Towson. This course, which overlooks the Loch Raven Reservoir, was built by Gus Hook in 1958. The tournament moved back to Mt. Pleasant after the 1961 event.

Winners

Year	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Winner's share ($)
Eastern Open Invitational
1962	Template:Flagicon Doug Ford	279	−9	1 stroke	Template:Flagicon Bob Goalby	5,300
1961	Template:Flagicon Doug Sanders	275	−13	1 stroke	Template:Flagicon Ken Venturi	5,300
1960	Template:Flagicon Gene Littler	273	−15	2 strokes	Template:Flagicon Gary Player	3,500
1959	Template:Flagicon Dave Ragan	273	−15	1 stroke	Template:Flagicon Gene Littler	2,800
1958	Template:Flagicon Art Wall Jr.	276	−12	Playoff	Template:Flagicon Jack Burke Jr. Template:Flagicon Bob Rosburg	2,800
1957	Template:Flagicon Tommy Bolt	276	−12	4 strokes	Template:Flagicon Billy Casper Template:Flagicon Fred Hawkins	2,800
Eastern Open
1956	Template:Flagicon Arnold Palmer	277	−11	2 strokes	Template:Flagicon Dow Finsterwald	3,800
1955	Template:Flagicon Frank Stranahan	280	−8	1 stroke	Template:Flagicon Art Wall Jr.	3,000
1954	Template:Flagicon Bob Toski	277	−11	7 strokes	Template:Flagicon Jack Burke Jr.	4,000
1953	Template:Flagicon Dick Mayer	279	−9	4 strokes	Template:Flagicon Charlie Bassler Template:Flagicon Doug Ford Template:Flagicon Chandler Harper	2,400
1952	Template:Flagicon Sam Snead	275	−13	2 strokes	Template:Flagicon Ed Oliver	2,400
1951	Template:Flagicon Cary Middlecoff	279	−9	1 stroke	Template:Flagicon Jerry Barber	2,400
1950	Template:Flagicon Lloyd Mangrum	279	−9	2 strokes	Template:Flagicon Clayton Heafner	2,600