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==1945–1949== 1945 Byron Nelson wins 18 tournaments in a calendar year to set an all-time PGA Tour record-including a record 11 in a row and a record 19 consecutive rounds under 70. His total prize earnings during his 11-win streak, $30,000, is less than last place money for the PGA Tour Championship by 1992. The Tam O'Shanter Open offers a then-record purse of $60,000. 1946 Sam Snead travels to St Andrews to compete in the first post-war British Open, and is victorious, winning by four shots from Johnny Bulla and Bobby Locke. Lloyd Mangrum wins the U.S. Open in a second playoff, after three players - Mangrum, Byron Nelson and Vic Ghezzi - all tie with 72 in the first playoff. The U.S. Women's Open is instituted. Patty Berg is the first winner. 1947 Mildred "Babe" Zaharias becomes the first American to win the British Ladies Amateur, at Gullane. Golf is televised for the first time, in a local St. Louis telecast of the U.S. Open. Lew Worsham wins a playoff for the U.S. Open against Sam Snead. The playoff ends in controversy as Worsham asks officials to measure which ball is closest to the hole, just as Snead is about to putt. The measure proves Snead is to putt first, but he misses, and Worsham holes his putt for victory. Amateur Frank Stranahan finishes runner-up at both the U.S. Masters (two shots behind Jimmy Demaret), and the British Open (a shot behind Fred Daly). Leading amateur players would continue to make occasional forays onto the leaderboards of major championships (excepting the PGA, for obvious reasons) until the early 1960s, since when it has become extremely rare for an amateur to finish in the top-ten. Jim Ferrier becomes the first Australian to win a major championship, when he defeats Chick Harbert 2 and 1 in the final of the PGA Championship. ''Golf World'' magazine is founded. 1948 Henry Cotton wins his third British Open, at the age of 41. Ben Hogan wins eleven tournaments during the season, including both the U.S. Open and PGA Championships. Club professional Claude Harmon - invited after finishing twentieth in the previous year's U.S. Open - wins the Masters championship. Bobby Locke sets a PGA Tour record with a 16-stroke winning margin in the Chicago Victory National Championship. Herbert Warren Wind's authoritative "The Story of American Golf" is published. The U.S. Junior Amateur is instituted. Ken Venturi loses to Dean Lind in the first final. The "USGA Golf Journal" is founded. 1949 In February, Ben Hogan is involved in a terrible car accident that nearly kills him, and leaves him unable to walk, let alone play golf, for the whole season. In his absence, Sam Snead enjoys his finest season, winning the Masters, the PGA Championship and finishing second at the U.S. Open to Cary Middlecoff. Bobby Locke becomes the first South African to win the British Open. Louise Suggs wins the U.S. Women's Open by a record margin of 14 strokes. Marie Roke of Wollaston, Massachusetts aces a 393-yard (359 m) hole—the longest ace ever recorded by a woman. The U.S. side defeat Great Britain and Ireland 7–5 to win the Ryder Cup at Ganton, in Yorkshire. The following week, the team stay in England to accept invites to the News of the World Match Play; here, however, they are unable to take the trophy, for although Lloyd Mangrum reaches the semi-final, the eventual winner is Welshman Dai Rees. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Timeline of golf history (1945–99)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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