DJGC History pg 2
  • Don January won the tournament twice, in 1947 and 1948, and went on to North Texas where he played on their NCAA Championship team.

  • Ralph Guldhal won the tournament in 1928 and went on to win the National Open in 1937 and 1938. Only four other players have ever done that. He followed those wins with a win in the Masters in 1939.

  • Girls were first allowed to play in 1965.

  • Nancy Hager won the girl's Open Division in 1966 and 1967. She went on to win the State Junior Championship in 1967, 1968, and 1970. She set an all time scoring record in 1968.

  • Rowe Hart and Leo Acker are the only three-time winners.

  • Lee Trevino and Spec Goldman both played in, but never won, the tournament.

  • In 1973 Bryan Steigman won the Open Division and in 1974 won the Dallas Golf Association Individual Championship. The only time that this has happened.

  • In 1963 Larry Thomas won the tournament at 16. Sixteen years later in 1989, Robbie Skinner won the tournament at 15. He is the youngest player to win the Open Division.

  • Justin Leonard won his first tournament playing in the Pee-Wee division of the tournament at Tenison Park

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