From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1975 European Tour
1975 European Tour
Dates Tournament Host country Winner Notes
8–11 Apr Portuguese Open Portugal Hal Underwood
16–19 Apr Spanish Open Spain Arnold Palmer
23–26 Apr Madrid Open Spain Bob Shearer
1–4 May French Open France Brian Barnes
7 10 May Piccadilly Medal England Bob Shearer
23–26 May Penfold PGA Championship England Arnold Palmer
11–14 Jun Martini International England Christy O’Connor Jnr Tie
Ian Stanley
9–12 Jul The Open Championship Scotland Tom Watson
17–20 Jul Swiss Open Switzerland Dale Hayes
24–27 Jul Scandinavian Enterprise Open Sweden George Burns
31 Jul–3 Aug German Open West Germany Maurice Bembridge
7–10 Aug Dutch Open Netherlands Hugh Baiocchi
13–16 Aug Benson & Hedges Festival England Vicente Fernandez
28–31 Aug Carroll’s Irish Open Republic of Ireland Christy O’Connor Jnr New tournament
3–6 Sept Sun Alliance Match Play Championship England Eddie Polland
11–14 Sept Kerrygold International Classic Republic of Ireland George Burns New tournament
23–24 Sept Double Diamond Strokeplay Scotland Peter Dawson
1–4 Oct Dunlop Masters England Bernard Gallacher
16–19 Oct Italian Open Italy Billy Casper
The 1975 European Tour was the fourth official season of
golf tournaments known as the PGA European Tour and
Order of Merit
organised by the Professional Golfers’ Association. The PGA European Tour’s money list was known as the
The Order of Merit was won by South Africa’s Dale "Order of Merit". It was based on a points system, which
Hayes. meant that some players could finish lower than others
despite accumulating more prize money.
Schedule
The table below shows the 1975 European Tour schedule
See also
which was made up of 19 tournaments, which included • Golfers with most European Tour wins
the major national opens around Europe. The other tour-
naments were mostly held in England and Scotland.
There were several changes from the previous season,
References
with the addition of the Carroll’s Irish Open, replacing
the Carroll’s International, and the Kerrygold Interna- External links
tional Classic, and the loss of the Penfold Tournament,
• 1975 season results on the PGA European Tour
the W.D. & H.O. Wills Tournament and the El Paraiso
website
Open.
• 1975 Order of Merit on the PGA European Tour
website
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1975 European Tour
Position Player Country (£
Prize money (£)
1 Dale Hayes South Africa 20,508
2 Bob Shearer Australia 16,040
3 Eamonn Darcy Ireland 14,846
4 Brian Barnes Scotland 13,492
5 Bernard Gallacher Scotland 12,040
6 Hugh Baiocchi South Africa 9,631
7 Christy O’Connor Jnr Ireland 11,979
8 Jack Newton Australia 16,394
9 Vicente Fernández Argentina 10,109
10 Neil Coles England 11,770
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