16. Beeson Park Golf Course Will Hold It's First Tournament, 1937

Journal Herald, September 17, 1937



  A Winchester city championship tournament will be played at the new Beeson Park golf course beginning September 20, it was announced yesterday. Medal play is impossible due to the fact that there are no available scores to handicap all the players. Hence the tournament will be match play.
  In order that all players may have the opportunity to participate, a consolation flight will be played along with the championship flight.
  Prizes will be awarded in both flights. All entries must be in by Sunday to Harry Smith, Caddy Master  at the golf course.
  Entry fee is 50 cents.

Tournament ends October 23, 1937:

  Johnny Monks today is champion golfer of Winchester by virtue of his 4 and 3 victory over Francis Simpson in a match played in a mixed snow and rainstorm on the Beeson Park course in Winchester. With the championship, the first of many to come on the new course, goes a silver loving cup.
  Johnny Perkins won the consolation tournament with a victory over Fred Lattin in the final match of the medal play event and received eight golf balls for his efforts. Lattin received four balls as runner-up.  There were eight entries in the championship flight after qualifying rounds had been played and Monks fought his way through to the title by defeating Robison, Smith and Simpson. The runner-up defeated Mendenhall and Perry to gain the final round.
  Perkins in winning the consolation was the best of 16 entrants. He beat Zayas, Fulkerson, Burnhardt and Lattin to win, while Lattin defeated Phistner, Armstrong and Ashley.

Earlier in the Journal Herald, 9-3-'37, Orla Davis, city clerk-treasurer, announced that as of September 1, there was a balance of $116.30 in the Beeson Park golf course fund.
  Since the course's opening, about the middle of July, to September 1, 1937,  income from green's fees totaled $364.10. Expenses to the Caddy Master and caretaker were $247.80.
  This is a creditable showing for the new course and reveals already that it will be a money maker, or at least self-supporting when in better shape and more widely known.