Gezira 1st golf open souvenir programme 1949
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Title: The First Gezira Open Invitation Golf Tournament Souvenir Programme
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Description: [20] advertisements + [9] text, photographs, etc. + [19] ad pp. 9½x6½, color illustrated saddle-stitched wrappers.Consisting mostly of advertisements (it has only 9 pages of non-advertisement text), we have a program for the inaugural Open Invitation. The stated purpose of the tournament is, "to encourage professional golfers in Egypt...With this object in view it is hoped to build up a sufficiently large fund to pay the expenses of some of the World's leading professionals to come to Gezira next December to play in the Open Championship of Egypt. This will give our own professionals [pictured within] a wonderful opportunity to see some of the best players, to learn from them..." Whether this tournament worked to that end or not, legends like Bobby Locke and Peter Thomason came to play in the Egypt Open in the 1950s. Additionally, each program is uniquely numbered by the number stamp on page 2 of the text (after the 20 pages of advertisements), this one numbered 000506.
Heading: (Gezira Open Invitation - 1949 Program)Place Published: Egypt
Publisher: Gezira Sporting Club
Date Published: 1949
Author: **
Description: [20] advertisements + [9] text, photographs, etc. + [19] ad pp. 9½x6½, color illustrated saddle-stitched wrappers.Consisting mostly of advertisements (it has only 9 pages of non-advertisement text), we have a program for the inaugural Open Invitation. The stated purpose of the tournament is, "to encourage professional golfers in Egypt...With this object in view it is hoped to build up a sufficiently large fund to pay the expenses of some of the World's leading professionals to come to Gezira next December to play in the Open Championship of Egypt. This will give our own professionals [pictured within] a wonderful opportunity to see some of the best players, to learn from them..." Whether this tournament worked to that end or not, legends like Bobby Locke and Peter Thomason came to play in the Egypt Open in the 1950s. Additionally, each program is uniquely numbered by the number stamp on page 2 of the text (after the 20 pages of advertisements), this one numbered 000506.
Heading: (Gezira Open Invitation - 1949 Program)Place Published: Egypt
Publisher: Gezira Sporting Club
Date Published: 1949
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Lightly rubbed extremities; there are some ink notations within, as well as light and scattered foxing; very good.
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Gezira 1st golf open souvenir programme 1949
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