The Duluth News-Tribune and the Duluth Herald sponsored a replacement trophy for the tournament which was retired in 1952 after Bob Braff had won the tournament for a third time. Air Corps after Pearl Harbor and was killed in action at the age of 27 in June of 1943 in the Pacific Theater. Months after his 1941 Duluth Publinx victory, Johnson joined the U.S. With his third win, Johnson was awarded permanent possession of the original loving cup trophy. Wally Johnson became the first to capture the Duluth Public Links title three times. Oscar Erickson would not defend his title in 1928 having joined the private Ridgeview County Club and becoming ineligible to compete. Newspaper accounts do not reflect on the details behind the high scores shot during the tournament (Erickson was a Minnesota State Amateur Championship contender in 1930) but one can speculate that the course was probably still immature with construction having begun just a year before. By 1931, Campbell was one of the best golfers in the state winning two Minnesota state amateur titles among his many tournament wins during the 1930s before quitting the game at the start of World War II. Fourteen year-old Bobby Campbell finished in fifth place. Against 21 other competitors, Oscar Erickson was the first winner of the tournament shooting rounds of 87 and 86 for a total score of 173 over 36 holes. Enger had opened just weeks earlier on July 2nd and was at the time a nine-hole course. The first Duluth Publinx tournament was held over Labor Day weekend in September of 1927 at Enger Park Golf Course and sponsored by the Duluth Municipal Amateur Athletic Association. Amateur Public Links Championship and the Minnesota State Public Links Championship, the Duluth Publinx was closed to golfers with playing privileges at a golf club not open to the general public. Being a municipal event, the tournament was held at either city-owned Enger Park Golf Course or Lester Park Golf Course. The Duluth City Public Links Golf Tournament (often shortened to Duluth Publinx) was conducted from 1927 to 1962 and determined annually the public course golf champion of Duluth, Minnesota.
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