Kansas City Open Invitational

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

{{for|the former LPGA Tour event also known as the Kansas City Open|Heart of America Invitational}}

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{{Infobox golf tournament

| name = Kansas City Open Invitational

| image =

| location = Kansas City, Missouri

| establishment = 1949

| course = Blue Hills Country Club

| par = 72

| yardage =

| tour = PGA Tour

| format = Stroke play

| purse = {{currency|20,000|USD}}

| month_played = September

| aggregate = 268 Wally Ulrich (1954)

| to-par = –24 as above

| final_year = 1959

| final_champion = {{flagicon|USA}} Dow Finsterwald

| map = USA#USA Missouri

| map_relief = yes

| map_label = Blue Hills CC

| map_caption = Location in the United States##Location in Missouri

| coordinates = {{coord|38.899|-94.602}}

}}

The Kansas City Open Invitational, which played as the Kansas City Open for most of its history, was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour that was played in the greater Kansas City area in the late 1940s and 1950s. A total of four clubs hosted the event. The first event was held at Kansas City's Swope Park Golf Course, now known as Swope Memorial Golf Course, and is the only public course in the Kansas City area ever to have hosted a PGA Tour event.{{cite web | title=Swope Memorial course information | url=http://www.swopememorialgolfcourse.com/view.asp?id=143&page=2055 | access-date=2007-12-11 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070429135159/http://www.swopememorialgolfcourse.com/view.asp?id=143&page=2055 | archive-date=2007-04-29 | url-status=dead }} The Milburn Country Club in Overland Park, Kansas, a par-72, 18-hole championship course built in 1917, hosted the event five times. Kansas City's Hillcrest Country Club, a par-72, 18-hole course built in 1916, hosted the event three times. Two events were held at Blue Hills Country Club, which is also in Kansas City and was built in 1912.