Tournament information | |
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Established | 2020 |
Course(s) | Southport Golf Club (2024) |
Format | Team match play |
Current champion | |
Victoria |
The Australian Interstate Teams Matches is a mixed gender amateur team golf competition between the states of Australia. Planned in 2020, it was not held until 2022 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It replaced the earlier separate men's and women's events which were last held in 2019. [1] [2]
Victoria won the 2024 event, beating Queensland in the final at Southport Golf Club. [3]
The event is contested by the six states of Australia. The format is a round-robin tournament, each team playing the other five teams, after which the top two teams play a final.
From 2023 each team consists of up to 10 players, five men and five women, although only four men and four women play in each match. In 2022 there were just four men and four women in each team. There are eight singles in each match, men playing men and women playing women, all contests being over 18 holes. Extra holes are not played. Final positions after the round-robin are decided firstly by the number of team points. Each team get half a point in a tied team match. Where teams are level on team points, the order is decided on individual matches won. The leading two teams after the round-robin contest a final, to determine the winner of the event.
Year | Winners | Final | RR | Runners-up | RR | Venue | Ref. |
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2024 | Victoria | 6–2 | 4–26.5 | Queensland | 4.5–25 | Southport | [3] |
2023 | New South Wales | 6–2 | 4–27.5 | South Australia | 4–24.5 | St Michaels | [4] |
2022 | Victoria | 5.5–2.5 | 4–24.5 | South Australia | 3.5–24 | Sorrento | [5] |
2021 | No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic | Bonnie Doon | [2] | ||||
2020 | No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic | Bonnie Doon | [2] |
RR– Team's score in the round-robin stage. Positions were determined by the number of team points and where that is equal by the number of individual match points.
The following players competed in 2022
The following players competed in 2023
The following players competed in 2024
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