Burl
Bolesta
Returned Veteran
Scores 294 To Take Florida Open
New York Times
July 2, 1945
Burl Bolesta, veteran of some of the bitterest fighting
in the African, Sicilian and Italian
invasions, won the 72-hole Florida open
golf championship at the Palma Ceia
Course today with a 294. The stocky
ex-service man added two rounds of 74 to
his total of 146 strokes in the first 36
holes.
In second place was Lieutenant Frank Stranahan, Army
strong man of Toledo, Ohio, based at
Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, who scored
a 74-77 today to finish second with a
298.
In third place was Jim Lee, long-hitting Tallahassee
amateur, with a total of 300.
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