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Year in Review
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Twelve championships in our record: eight majors (four men’s, four women’s) and four amateur championships. Jack Burke Jr. won two of them: Masters and PGA Championship.
1956, coloured the way magazines tinted their plates then: by hand.
Each dot is a championship at the week it finished. Click a dot for its front page, or a week to see it on the world.
Men's major
Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Ken Venturi
b. 1923-01-29, Fort Worth, Texas, USA; United States; age 33 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Blue Hill Country Club, Canton
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Ted Kroll
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1923-01-29, Fort Worth, Texas, USA; United States; age 33 at the win (year page); 2nd major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Flory Van Donck
To par not yet researched.
b. 1929-08-23, Brunswick (Melbourne), Australia; Australia; age 26 at the win (year page); 3rd major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's major
Oak Hill C.C., Rochester
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Julius Boros, Ben Hogan
b. 1921-01-06, Halls, Tennessee, USA; United States; 3rd major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Forest Lake Country Club, Detroit
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Patty Berg
b. 1934, Eureka, South Dakota, United States; United States; age 22 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Augusta Country Club, Augusta
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Patty Berg
b. 1923-09-07, Atlanta, Georgia, United States; United States; age 32 at the win (year page); 9th major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Northland Country Club, Duluth
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Barbara McIntire (a)
b. 1932-10-27, Boston, Massachusetts, United States; United States; age 23 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's major
Wakonda Club, Des Moines
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Louise Suggs
b. 1924, Fargo, North Dakota, United States; United States; age 31 at the win (year page); 2nd major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's amateur championship
Troon Golf Club (Old Course), Troon
1 of 5 researched
Winner
John Beharrell
Runner-up: Leslie Taylor
To par and margin not yet researched.
Not yet researched
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Men's amateur championship
Knollwood Club, Lake Forest
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Chuck Kocsis
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1925-12-08, Tarboro, North Carolina, U.S.; United States; age 30 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's amateur championship
Sunningdale, Sunningdale
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Mary Patton Janssen
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1936-09-28, Redlands, California; United States
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Women's amateur championship
Meridian Hills C.C., Indianapolis
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: JoAnne Gunderson Carner
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1934-03-09, Cereal, Alberta, Canada; Canada; age 22 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
Year in Review
Twelve championships in our record: eight majors (four men’s, four women’s) and four amateur championships. Jack Burke Jr. won two of them: Masters and PGA Championship.
To be written The synopsis of 1956: 150 to 250 words on the season’s story, its turning points and why it mattered, written from sourced research.
To be written How each was won: the leader after 54 holes, the decisive shot, the runner-up, the weather.
To be written How each was won, and where the women’s game stood in 1956.
To be written The amateur season: champions, finals, and who went on to turn professional.
11 tour events are laid out week by week for 1956.
To be written Money lists, players of the year, rookies and the shape of each tour’s season, from the tours’ own records.
Jack Burke Jr. won two championships in our record (Masters and PGA Championship).
To be written Who defined 1956: their wins, their near misses, and what the year meant for their career.
To be written First-time major winners, scoring records, youngest and oldest champions, last appearances, events played for the first or last time.
To be written Equipment, rules and course changes, prize money, television and the business of golf that year.
Every count above is from Golf Network News’s record; the parts marked “To be written” are filled only from sourced research.
Every championship here comes from Golf Network News's own record: the rooms for the majors, the women's majors, the amateur championships and the team cups. A part that says it is not yet researched is exactly that. We fill it from sourced material, never with a guess.
The picture at the top is drawn in code for each year. It is printed the way golf was printed that year: wood engravings before 1900, newsprint halftones to 1945, hand-tinted plates to 1969, colour film to 1999, and digital light since. The names engraved in the numerals are that year's champions.
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