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Historical Marker - S715C - The Buick Open (Marker ID#:S715C) Front - Title/Description The Buick Open One year after Warwick Hills Golf and Country Club opened in 1957, Waldo McNaught used his unique position as club president and public relations director of the Buick Motor Division of the General Motors Corporation (GM) to organize a golf tournament here. The collaboration between Warwick Hills, Buick, and the Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA) Tour resulted in the first Buick Open, held in June 1958. The event coincided with GM’s “Golden Milestone” fiftieth anniversary. Significant Date: Company officials allowed the use of the Buick Post WWII (1945-1970) name, and provided each golfer with a new car to Registry Year: 2009 Erected Date: 2009 use during the tournament. This marked the first corporate sponsorship of a PGA Tour event. The Marker Location success of the 1958 open created a partnership Address: G-9057 South Saginaw Road that continued into the twenty-first century. City: Grand Blanc Back - Title/Description State: MI ZipCode: 48439 For five days in June 1958, golfers from across the County: Genesee country came to Grand Blanc to play in the first Township: Grand Blanc Buick Open. The field included what Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA) Tour supervisor Harvey Lat: 42.90102040 / Long: -83.59967529 Raynor called the greatest field in PGA Tour Web URL: history. A fifty-two-thousand-dollar purse, the largest of the 1958 season, was a big draw for many players, while “big-time golf”, one-dollar admission, and free parking drew more than fifty thousand fans. On the eighteenth hole of the final round, any of four golfers had a chance to win the open. In near darkness and chilling temperatures, Billy Casper, with the final shot of the tournament, sank a putt of three and one-half feet to win by one stroke and claim the top prize of nine thousand dollars – and a brand new Buick..

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