Dapper Dan Open

{{short description|Golf tournament formerly on the PGA Tour}}

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The Dapper Dan Open was a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour that was played intermittently in the 1930s and 1940s. It was sponsored by Dapper Dan Charities, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based charitable organization founded in 1936 as a businessman's sports club by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette sports editor Al Abrams. Dapper Dan evolved into one of western Pennsylvania's premier sports charities with six fund raising events throughout the year, including Pittsburgh's oldest, largest and most-prestigious annual sports banquet.{{cite web |title=Dapper Dan History |publisher=Dapper Dan Charities |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/dapperdan/history.asp |access-date=September 9, 2011}} The organization awarded its top honor to golfer Arnold Palmer in 1960.{{cite web |title=Arnold Palmer biography |publisher=Arnold Palmer Golf Management |url=http://www.palmergolf.com/company/arnold/ |access-date=September 9, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110925205918/http://www.palmergolf.com/company/arnold/ |archive-date=September 25, 2011 |url-status=dead }}

Arnold Palmer's first ever PGA tournament was the Dapper Dan when he was just 16 years old.{{cite web |url=http://www.pgatour.com/2009/tournaments/r009/03/25/wednesday.transcript.palmer/ |title=What they said: Arnold Palmer |date=March 25, 2009 |publisher=PGA Tour |access-date=March 7, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090330154656/http://www.pgatour.com/2009/tournaments/r009/03/25/wednesday.transcript.palmer/ |archive-date=March 30, 2009 }}

The tournament was played at the Wildwood Country Club in Allison Park, Pennsylvania in 1939. After a break of nine years, the tournament resumed in 1948 at the Alcoma Country Club in Pittsburgh.