The Philadelphia Inquirer Open was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour played at various clubs in the greater Philadelphia area in the 1940s.
The first event was played as the Philadelphia Inquirer Open Invitational; it was last played in 1949.
Fred Byrod was the Inquirer employee who acted as tournament promoter and liaison with the PGA.
[1] At the 1945 event, Byron Nelson won the seventh of his record-setting 11 consecutive victories.
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