The 1948 Sunday Empire News Tournament was a professional snooker tournament sponsored by the "Sunday Empire News" newspaper.
 The tournament was won by Joe Davis with John Pulman finishing in second place.
 The tournament saw the re-introduction of the popular round-robin handicap format had been used for Daily Mail Gold Cup before World War II.
 Thurston's Hall, the home of the Daily Mail Gold Cup, had re-opened in late 1947, although renamed as the Leicester Square Hall.
 It was the only time the tournament was held although the format continued with the News of the World Snooker Tournament.
The Puerto Vallarta Blue Agave Golf Classic was a Champions Tour golf tournament played only in 2006.
 It was played at the Vista Vallarta Club de Golf in the resort of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico over a course which was designed by Jack Nicklaus.
 It was the only Champions Tour event in Mexico in 2006, and was the richest golf tournament of any kind to be staged in that country.
 A richer PGA Tour event called the Mayakoba Golf Classic at Riviera Maya-Cancun debuted in 2007.
 Morris Hatalsky won the tournament, taking the winner's US$240,000 share of the $1,600,000 purse.
Flor de Caña Open is a golf tournament on the PGA Tour Latinoamérica that was first played in 2016.
 The tournament is sponsored by the Nicaraguan rum brand Flor de Caña and became the first professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour Latinoamérica to be played in Nicaragua.
 The inaugural tournament was won by Argentine Augusto Núñez.
Martini & Rossi is an Italian multinational alcoholic beverage company primarily associated with the Martini brand of vermouth and also with sparkling wine (for example, Asti).
 It also produces the French vermouth, Noilly Prat.
The Duluth All-City Golf Tournament was conceived in 1941 as a demanding contest to determine annually the city golf champion of Duluth, Minnesota.
 To that end, tournament sponsors Duluth News-Tribune and Duluth Herald established a season-ending golf tournament of the best 32 golfers representing the city’s two public (Enger Park Golf Course and Lester Park Golf Course) and three private (Northland Country Club, Ridgeview Country Club and Riverside Golf Club) golf courses.
The JCPenney Classic was a mixed team golf tournament sponsored by the PGA Tour and the LPGA Tour.
 Teams consisted of one PGA Tour player and one LPGA Tour player (except in 1967 when the teams were male only).
 It was played in California and Florida.
 Corporate sponsors were Haig & Haig, Pepsi-Cola, and JCPenney.
The Lawrence Batley Seniors was a senior (over 50s) men's professional golf tournament on the European Senior Tour.
 It was played from 1992 to 2002 in the Huddersfield area of West Yorkshire, England.
 From 1995 the tournament was held at Huddersfield Golf Club, north of Huddersfield, while in 1994 it was held at Woodsome Hall Golf Club, south-west of Huddersfield, and in 1992 and 1993 at both venues.
 The tournament was sponsored by Lawrence Batley who had earlier supported a European Tour event, the Lawrence Batley International, from 1981 to 1987.
 Batley died in August 2002, soon after the final tournament.
The TCL Classic was a men's professional golf tournament which was played on a course designed by American Robert Trent Jones, Jr. at Yalong Bay Golf Club in Sanya on Hainan Island, People's Republic of China four times between 2002 and 2007.
 The first tournament was held at Haiyi Golf Club in Dongguan on Guangdong, China, in 2002.
 It was the first tournament sponsored by the Chinese company TCL Corporation.
The Martini International was a men's professional golf tournament that was held from 1961 to 1983.
 It was hosted by several different golf clubs in England, Scotland and Wales.
 It was part of the European Tour's schedule from the tour's first official season in 1972 until the event ceased.
 The winners included the major champions Peter Thomson, Greg Norman, Nick Faldo and Seve Ballesteros.
 In 1983 the prize fund was £80,308, which was mid-range for a European Tour event at the time.
 The tournament was sponsored by Martini & Rossi.
The R.T.V. International Trophy was a professional golf tournament.
 In its first year, 1967, there was a professional team tournament between the four home nations at Edmondstown Golf Course, County Dublin.
 The next year the event became an individual tournament played at Cork Golf Club, Little Island, Cork, Ireland.
 The individual event was held twice, in 1968 and 1969.
 The tournaments were sponsored by R.T.V. Rentals.

Question: What year was the firstprofessional golf  tournament sponsored by the producers of Noilly Pratt held?
Answer: 1961