title: Hennessy Tournament
text: # Hennessy Tournament
  
  The Hennessy Tournament was an Irish golf tournament played from 1957 to 1965. Christy O'Connor Snr won the event 5 times between 1957 and 1963. The event was sponsored by Hennessy, a cognac distiller.
  
  ## History
  
  Total prize money was £500 in 1957, 500 guineas in 1958, 1960 and 1961, 750 guineas in 1962 and 1963 and £1,500 in 1965. In 1964 Hennessy sponsored a round-robin event, the Hennessy Round-robin Tournament which had prize money of £1,500.
  
  ## Winners
  
  | Year | Venue | Winner | Score | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | Ref |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1957 | Woodbrook | Christy O'Connor Snr | 279 | 3 strokes | Jimmy Martin | |
  | 1958 | Clandeboye | Eric Brown | 279 | 1 stroke | Harry Bradshaw | |
  | 1959 | Cork | Ernie Jones | 278 | 1 stroke | Norman Drew | |
  | 1960 | Royal Dublin | Christy O'Connor Snr | 270 | 12 strokes | Christy Greene | |
  | 1961 | Balmoral | Christy O'Connor Snr | 276 | 7 strokes | Christy Greene Jimmy Henderson | |
  | 1962 | Clandeboye | Christy O'Connor Snr | 268 | 17 strokes | Billy Kerr Jimmy Kinsella | |
  | 1963 | Clandeboye | Christy O'Connor Snr | 277 | 3 strokes | Peter Alliss | |
  | 1964 | Replaced by the Hennessy Round-robin Tournament | Replaced by the Hennessy Round-robin Tournament | Replaced by the Hennessy Round-robin Tournament | Replaced by the Hennessy Round-robin Tournament | Replaced by the Hennessy Round-robin Tournament | Replaced by the Hennessy Round-robin Tournament |
  | 1965 | Clandeboye | Christy Greene | 275 | 3 strokes | Christy O'Connor Snr | |
  