[1] A 36-hole stroke-play tournament was held, 25 professionals competing, followed by a business meeting at which officers were elected.
[2] Thomas Whare, the North Warwickshire professional, won with a score of 155, two strokes ahead of David Duncan and Frank Wingate.
[3] The second tournament was held at the Sutton Coldfield club in February 1898 and was won by Tom Williamson with a score of 162.
Wingate was paired with David Brown, the 1886 Open Champion, for the final round.
[10][11] The Midland Professional Golf Club again held four tournaments in 1899, in February at Kings Norton, in May at Sandwell Park, in September at Robin Hood and in November at Handsworth.
The championship was contested at Sandwell Park but, unlike 1898, it was played as a 36-hole event like the other tournaments.
A sub-committee with Edward Chance as chairman, was created to organise the distribution of prize money.
1903 also saw the first News of the World Match Play tournament, the first national event organised by the PGA.
[24] Sherlock and Williamson were absent from the 1906 championship and the tournament was won by Jack Fulford.
Qualification was based on individual stroke-play, qualifiers being drawn randomly into pairs for the finals stage.
[34] George Tuck won the championship in 1913 while the 1914 tournament was cancelled for the start of World War I.
[35] The championship restarted in 1919, acting again as qualification for the News of the World Match Play.
[36] Although the Sphere and Tatler Foursomes was not revived after the war, another event, the Daily Mail Tournament, replaced it in the calendar and also involved sectional qualifying.
In 1920 there was a three-way tie between Tom Williamson, George Buckle and Dick Wheildon.
[39] However the experiment was not repeated and from 1922 the September event reverted to covering both the championship and the qualifying.
[41] George Buckle, the 1912 champion, won in 1923 beating Ernest Hanton in the 18-hole playoff, played the following day.
The Midland Challenge Cup was awarded to the winner of the News of the World qualifying event, as was the case before 1911.
George Buckle beat Tom Green by two strokes, for his fourth championship win.
[56][57][58] Except in 1935, when the event was not held, the winner gained entry to the end-of-season limited-field Dunlop-Metropolitan Tournament.
[60] The championship restarted in September 1946, also acting as qualifying for the News of the World Match Play.
Additional source:[157] From 1911 to 1927 (except in 1921) and in 1946 the championships were also the Midland section qualifying events for the News of the World Matchplay.
The 1939 championship was the Midland section qualifying event for the Daily Mail Tournament.