International News caption read: -- "Byron Nelson of Reading PA., the National Open Champion, won the Western Open Golf title with a score of 281, two under par for the 72-hole route at the Medinah Country Club today. He is shown holding the golf championship cup. July 23, 1939." Byron won $750 from the $3,000 purse. The event was sponsored by the Western Golf Association for the benefit of "Chick" Evans Caddy Scholarship Foundation at Northwestern University.