Open research gaps

• Oct 29, 2026 — Burke’s 1952 Los Angeles Open playoff loss given its direct citation and its turning point. The row already named Riviera CC; it now cites the PGA Tour’s official Burke centenary article (E1) directly for that venue — “After three-putting the 72nd hole at Riviera Country Club, a miscue that dropped him into a playoff with Tommy Bolt and E.J. ‘Dutch’ Harrison” — corroborated by the note that Joe Louis’s first PGA-sanctioned start came in the same 1952 event at Riviera. The finish now carries the three-putt itself and what followed it: Burke discarded his blade putter for a mallet-head putter, the switch that preceded his four straight wins. Re-attempted and still open: Burke’s 1962 Banff Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf match result (the episode table and a fresh search give the venue and the broadcast date already on the row, but no winner or scores — Demaret’s 1966 Shell result at the Air Force Academy stands as already sourced and was not changed); the Yomiuri host course; the five Texas PGA venues and the disputed 1936 title; Burke’s 1984 Legends of Golf partner; and Demaret’s 1940 seventh win, career earnings total, exact 1951 Havana dates and PGA disqualification details. No totals change: 235 appearances, 114 verified courses, six unresolved venues — this pass added the citation and the detail to one existing row at an already-counted course.
• Oct 28, 2026 — twenty-eight bare win lines completed; two missing Demaret runner-ups found and added. The Where2Golf player records and year results already cited across this record were read end to end for the wins that still carried a bare “1”, and twenty-eight finishes now carry their winning scores, margins, playoff details and exact dates — among them all three of Demaret’s Masters wins (1940: 280, −8, by 4 over Lloyd Mangrum; 1947: 281, −7, by 2 over Byron Nelson and amateur Frank Stranahan, with four sub-par rounds, a Masters first; 1950: 283, −5, by 2 over Jim Ferrier, the first three-time Masters winner), Burke’s 1956 Masters win (289, +1, by 1 over amateur Ken Venturi), Burke’s 1952 streak (Texas Open 260, −24, by 6 over Doug Ford; Houston Open 277, −11, by 6 over amateur Frank Stranahan), his first outright Tour win (Rio Grande Valley, 1950) and his last (Lucky International, 1963), and Demaret’s 1949 Phoenix Open playoff win over Ben Hogan (67–70 in the Monday playoff, days before Hogan’s near-fatal car crash on the drive home). One conflict was flagged rather than forced: Where2Golf gives Demaret’s 1950 Masters total as 282, against the 283 of his career record’s round-by-round line (70-72-72-69); this record follows 283. The same 1950 results page held two Demaret runner-up finishes missing here — 2nd at the Texas Open (Feb 9–12, 1950, one shot behind Sam Snead’s 265 at Brackenridge Park) and 2nd at the Greater Greensboro Open (Mar 23–26, 1950, at Sedgefield CC) — and both are now added, Sedgefield as a newly verified course on the map. Re-attempted and still open: the Yomiuri host course (the event record still names no venue), the five Texas PGA venues (today’s sources repeat only Dallas for 1934), the 1962 Banff Shell match result, Burke’s 1984 Legends partner and the exact 1951 Havana dates; Burke’s Sioux City and 1953 Inverness wins and the St. Petersburg wins were also checked against the Where2Golf year pages, which do not cover those editions, so those lines stay as they are. The five venue fills carried in the expansion report were also re-checked row by row and all five stand in this record — Burke’s 1959 Greater New Orleans T2 at Bayou Oaks, Demaret’s 1947 Orlando T2 at Dubsdread and his 1948 Lower Rio Grande playoff loss at Harlingen among them; the only change they needed was the Rubber City Open’s exact dates, now Jul 28–31, 1955. New totals: 235 appearances, 114 verified courses, six unresolved venues.
• Oct 28, 2026 — research-file pass: every item deduped against the record first. The day’s research file named one candidate new row and five fills; checked row by row, none of them was missing. Burke’s 1959 Greater New Orleans T2 at Bayou Oaks was already here (sourced to the 1959 results, E60) — the only change it took was Bill Collins’s sourced winning 280, with Burke’s own total still unstated, as only the margin is sourced. Dubsdread CC was already counted, and Demaret’s 1947 Orlando T2 already stands in its corrected form (tied at 274 with Dave Douglas and Herman Keiser; Douglas won the 18-hole playoff and the sudden-death hole). Refinements applied where the file added fact: the 1958 Eastern Open row now states the 276 tie (Wall, Burke and Rosburg) and Wall’s birdie four at the first extra hole — its Jul 24–27 dates stay, because they are carried by Where2Golf’s 1958 results (E61), not invented; Demaret’s 1948 Lower Rio Grande loss now carries Mangrum’s winning 269 alongside the 65–69 playoff; the 1943 Golden Valley Four-Ball win now names the runners-up pair, Byron Nelson and Jug McSpaden; and the 1955 Rubber City finish now says Ransom’s 272 won with a birdie on the first extra hole, still with no to-par figure, as the sources disagree (−16 vs −12). Demaret’s 1941 Argentine Open line already carried its 279, the 4-shot margin and the lowest-total note, so it was left untouched. Not added, per the file and still open: a Riviera venue assignment from today’s Los Angeles Open search, the Yomiuri course, the Texas PGA venues and 1936 conflict, the Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf results, and Burke’s 1984 Legends partner. Exact verified totals after this pass, counted from the data: 235 appearances (Burke 109, Demaret 126) and 114 verified courses — this pass added no rows and no courses, because every candidate was already in the record.
• Oct 27, 2026 — four reported Burke runner-ups and five venue fills checked against the record; one finish completed. A fresh research pass reported four Burke runner-up finishes as new — the 1951 Reading Open at Berkleigh GC, the 1950 Miami Open at Miami Springs, the 1951 Colonial National Invitation at Colonial CC and the 1957 Arlington Hotel Open at Hot Springs CC — and each was checked row by row before adding: all four are already in this record with their venues, margins and sources, so no duplicates were made. The same pass re-resolved five venue fills — the 1949 Long Beach Open pair at Lakewood CC, Burke’s 1950 Los Angeles Open 3rd at Riviera CC, his 1952 Kansas City Open playoff 2nd at Milburn G&CC and Demaret’s 1952 San Diego Open 2nd at San Diego CC — and every one already stands confirmed here, as does the Baton Rouge note: the lone Sherwood Forest year was 1961 (Arnold Palmer’s win), so neither Burke’s 1952 win nor Demaret’s 1957 win was played there. One finish was completed from the pass: Demaret’s 1957 Arlington Hotel Open win — his 31st and last on Tour — now carries its dates (May 9–12, 1957), his winning 276 (-12) and the five men tied for second one shot back, Burke among them, from the Where2Golf 1957 results already cited on Burke’s runner-up row for the same event. One caution was applied from the same pass: Demaret’s 1952 San Diego Open finish now gives the margin only — the 279 it carried was arithmetic from Kroll’s winning 276, not an independently confirmed total for Demaret. Still open after this pass: the Yomiuri host course; the five Texas PGA venues and the disputed 1936 title; the Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf match results; Burke’s 1984 Legends of Golf partner; the details of Demaret’s PGA Championship disqualification (dated 1958 at Llanerch by contemporary reporting, 1959 in one results timeline); and the seventh Demaret win in 1940 that some profiles claim against the official six. Totals verified unchanged: 233 appearances, 113 verified courses, six unresolved venues.
• Oct 26, 2026 — a Pebble Beach runner-up verified in place; one shared finish completed. A reported new find — Demaret’s T2 at the 1959 Bing Crosby National Pro-Am, tied with Gene Littler two shots behind Art Wall Jr. — was checked against this record before adding and is already here, sourced to Where2Golf’s 1959 results, so no duplicate was made; the row now carries Wall’s winning 279 (-9) and drops a stray “54 holes” note that the four-round total contradicts. Burke’s 1954 World Championship of Golf T2 at Tam O’Shanter now names Earl Stewart Jr. as his co-runner-up, one shot behind Bob Toski’s 274, per the same Where2Golf 1954 results already cited on the row. The Texas PGA question was re-examined and the conflict deepened rather than settled: the Texas Golf Hall of Fame’s Jack Burke Sr. exhibit credits Burke Sr. with the 1936 Texas PGA title, against the same institution’s Demaret exhibit and the five-straight claim — the dispute flag already on this page stands unchanged. Re-attempted and still open: the Yomiuri host course (a 12th check; the event record still cites only the two October 1958 newspaper reports), both Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf match results, Burke’s 1984 Legends of Golf partner, and a seventh Demaret win in 1940 claimed by some profiles against the official six — no seventh event could be named, so none was added. Totals verified unchanged: 233 appearances, 113 verified courses, six unresolved venues.
• Oct 25, 2026 — seven contended-finish venues re-verified; two finishes completed. The venue questions carried in the expansion report for the finishes that mattered most were re-checked against fresh sources and every one is confirmed in this record: the 1949 Long Beach Open pair (Burke T3, Demaret 2nd) at Lakewood CC — the event sat at Virginia CC in 1926–30 and at Lakewood in 1949–51; Burke’s 1950 (3rd) and 1952 (playoff 2nd) Los Angeles Opens at Riviera CC, the event’s home for nine straight years, 1945–53; Demaret’s 1952 San Diego Open 2nd at San Diego CC; Burke’s 1955 Rubber City playoff at Firestone’s South Course, the event’s home from 1954; his 1958 Eastern Open playoff 2nd at Mt. Pleasant in Baltimore; and his 1952 Kansas City Open playoff 2nd at Milburn G&CC — that row now carries its exact dates, Aug 14–17, 1952, and the Rubber City finish now names Henry Ransom’s winning 272 and the other playoff men, Jackson Bradley and Doug Ford. The Baton Rouge question is closed the same way: the Open was played at Baton Rouge CC every year except 1961 (Sherwood Forest CC, during renovations), so Burke’s 1952 win and Demaret’s 1957 win both stand here — the note sits on the Baton Rouge course card. One new runner-up was reported by the search — Burke’s 1951 Colonial National Invitation 2nd, one shot behind Cary Middlecoff’s 282 — and checked before adding: it is already in this record, so no duplicate was made. Totals verified unchanged: 233 appearances, 113 verified courses, six unresolved venues. What remains open is unchanged: the Yomiuri host course, the five Texas PGA venues and the disputed 1936 title, the 1962 Banff match result, Burke’s 1984 Legends partner, Demaret’s career earnings and the exact 1951 Havana dates.
• Oct 24, 2026 — one date refined, the rest re-attempted. The 1962 Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf match at Banff Springs now carries its broadcast date: Sunday, January 14, 1962, on CBS, from Shell Review’s December 1961 listing of the January programs (“Stan Leonard and Jack Burke Jr.” at “the Banff, Canada course”), cross-checked against the series episode table. That corrects the January 13 date an earlier note here carried; the match result itself is still unverified — no source names a score. The Yomiuri course (11th attempt, including Japanese-language searches), Burke’s 1984 Legends of Golf partner and Demaret’s career earnings total were all searched again and remain open; for the earnings, no published career total exists anywhere found — only his documented 1947 leading-money-winner figure ($27,936) — so the Stats panel keeps it flagged as unresolved rather than estimated.
• Oct 23, 2026 — major records re-verified end to end. Both men’s major-championship records were re-checked in full against the official PGA Championship and U.S. Open venue lists and the players’ results timelines. Every start is now accounted for in this record — Demaret: 24 Masters, 17 U.S. Opens, 14 PGA Championships and 1 Open Championship; Burke’s U.S. Open record is complete at 12 starts, including his missed cut at Merion in 1950. One dating conflict was settled along the way: contemporary reporting (UPI, Jul 1958) places Demaret’s PGA disqualification in the second round at Llanerch in 1958, not 1959 as one results timeline shows — he did not play the 1959 PGA. The gaps below were all re-attempted and remain open; each now needs a paywalled newspaper archive (the Oct 21, 1958 Pacific Stars and Stripes or the Oct 20, 1958 Honolulu Star-Bulletin for the Yomiuri course) rather than another web search.
• Oct 22, 2026 re-check — highest-influence gaps first. The Texas PGA venues (1934–38), the 1967 Texas State Open venue, and the 1958 Yomiuri course were researched first, as the places where Burke and Demaret mattered most. None could be closed from web sources; each needs Texas newspaper or PGA section archives beyond the web index. Three finishes were tightened instead — see the next item.
• Tightened Oct 22, 2026: Burke’s 1957 U.S. Open withdrawal is now corroborated (T10 after a first-round 71, absent in round 2); his March 1950 St. Petersburg win now carries its full line — 272 (−12), 67-67-69-69, by 1 over Chick Harbert; and the 1962 Shell Banff broadcast is now dated (CBS, Jan 13, 1962; filmed partly in a snowstorm). Its match result is still unknown.
• No published career-start or top-10 total was found for Burke’s pre-1968 Tour career.
• Six appearances still lack a verified course: Burke’s 1958 Yomiuri win in Japan — the win itself is confirmed from the event record, which cites contemporary newspaper reports; only the host course is unknown — and Demaret’s five Texas PGA titles from 1934 through 1938.
• Burke’s 1962 Shell match result and his 1979 Bob Hope round-by-course order remain unverified.
• Demaret’s other PGA match details, exact career earnings and exact December 1951 Havana dates remain unresolved. The Havana win itself is confirmed (275, −13, by 1 over Bob Toski; Spokesman-Review, Dec 17, 1951, p. 9) — only the tournament’s exact playing dates are missing, and a mid-December pattern from neighbouring years is inference, not fact, so it is not stated as dates.
• One title is flagged as disputed rather than settled: the Texas Golf Hall of Fame’s Jack Burke Sr. exhibit credits Burke Sr. — Demaret’s old boss at River Oaks — with the 1936 Texas PGA championship, which conflicts with the same institution’s Demaret exhibit and with Demaret’s five-straight claim. Both HOF pages cannot be right for 1936.