Kansas City Open Invitational

Kansas City Open Invitational

Tournament information
Location	Kansas City, Missouri
Established	1949
CourseTemplate:Pluralize from text	Blue Hills Country Club
Par	72
TourTemplate:Pluralize from text	PGA Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	Template:Currency
Month played	September
Final year	1959
Tournament record score
Aggregate	268 Wally Ulrich (1954)
To par	–24 as above
Final champion
Template:Flagicon Dow Finsterwald
Location map

The Kansas City Open Invitational, which played as the Kansas City Open for most of its history, was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour that was played in the greater Kansas City area in the late 1940s and 1950s. A total of four clubs hosted the event. The first event was held at Kansas City's Swope Park Golf Course, now known as Swope Memorial Golf Course, and is the only public course in the Kansas City area ever to have hosted a PGA Tour event. The Milburn Country Club in Overland Park, Kansas, a par-72, 18-hole championship course built in 1917, hosted the event five times. Kansas City's Hillcrest Country Club, a par-72, 18-hole course built in 1916, hosted the event three times. Two events were held at Blue Hills Country Club, which is also in Kansas City and was built in 1912.

Tournament hosts

Years	Course
1955, 1957–58	Hillcrest Country Club
1954, 1959	Blue Hills Country Club
1950–53, 1956	Milburn Country Club
1949	Swope Park Golf Course

Winners

Year	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Winner's share ($)
Kansas City Open Invitational
1959	Template:Flagicon Dow Finsterwald	275	−13	Playoff	Template:Flagicon Don Fairfield	2,800
Kansas City Open
1958	Template:Flagicon Ernie Vossler	269	−19	3 strokes	Template:Flagicon Billy Maxwell	2,800
1957	Template:Flagicon Al Besselink	279	−9	3 strokes	Template:Flagicon George Bayer Template:Flagicon Dow Finsterwald	2,800
1956	Template:Flagicon Bo Wininger	273	−15	1 stroke	Template:Flagicon Fred Hawkins Template:Flagicon Bob Rosburg	4,300
1955	Template:Flagicon Dick Mayer	271	−17	6 strokes	Template:Flagicon Chandler Harper Template:Flagicon Billy Maxwell	4,000
1954	Template:Flagicon Wally Ulrich	268	−24	2 strokes	Template:Flagicon Gene Littler Template:Flagicon Lloyd Mangrum	4,000
1953	Template:Flagicon Ed Oliver	269	−19	2 strokes	Template:Flagicon Marty Furgol	3,000
1952	Template:Flagicon Cary Middlecoff (2)	276	−12	Playoff	Template:Flagicon Jack Burke Jr.	2,400
1951	Template:Flagicon Cary Middlecoff	278	−10	Playoff	Template:Flagicon Dave Douglas Template:Flagicon Doug Ford	2,400
1950	Template:Flagicon Lloyd Mangrum	271	−17	1 stroke	Template:Flagicon Jack Burke Jr. Template:Flagicon Ed Oliver	2,600
1949	Template:Flagicon Jim Ferrier	277	−11	4 strokes	Template:Flagicon Dick Metz	1,000