Golf Illustrated Gold Vase

Golf Illustrated Gold Vase

Tournament information
Location	England
Established	1909
Format	Stroke play
Final year	2002
Final champion
Roger Roper

The Golf Illustrated Gold Vase was a prestigious amateur golf tournament in England. ^[1] It was a 36-hole scratch stroke play competition.

History

The contest for a gold vase was announced in The Times on 3 April 1909. The vase, valued at 250 guineas, was presented by the proprietors the Golf Illustrated. The initial event was to be at Mid-Surrey on 17 June and was open to amateurs with a handicap of scratch or better. The vase would be held by the winner's home club and the winner himself would receive a silver replica. Three consecutive wins would win the vase outright. ^[2]

Winners

Year	Venue	Winners	Country	Score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Ref
2003	Cardrona Golf Club	Roger Roper	England				[3]
2002	Walton Heath Golf Club	Andrew Inglis					[4]
2001	Walton Heath Golf Club	James Heath	England				[4]
2000	Walton Heath Golf Club	John Kemp	England				[4]
1999	Walton Heath Golf Club	Mark Side	England				[4]
1998	Walton Heath Golf Club	Rupert Rea	England				[4]
1997	Walton Heath Golf Club	Mark James					[4]
1996	Not played
1995	The Oxfordshire Golf Club	Anthony Wall	England
1994		S Burrell
1993	Sunningdale Golf Club	Van Phillips Charles Challen	England   England	131	Tie		[5]
1992		Paul Page	England
1991	Sunningdale Golf Club	Rupert Scott	England
1990	Walton Heath Golf Club	Andy Rogers	England
1989	Sunningdale Golf Club	Gary Wolstenholme	England	142	3 strokes	Jim Payne	[6]
1988	Walton Heath Golf Club	Max Turner
1987	Walton Heath Golf Club	David Lane	England
1986	Walton Heath Golf Club	Bobby Eggo	Guernsey
1985	Walton Heath Golf Club	Mark Davis	England
1984	Walton Heath Golf Club	Jon Marks	England				[7]
1983	Walton Heath Golf Club	Stephen Keppler	England
1982	Walton Heath Golf Club	Iain Carslaw	Scotland
1981	Walton Heath Golf Club	Pat Garner	England	143
1980	Walton Heath Golf Club	Gordon Brand Jnr	Scotland	142	4 strokes	M Johnson Peter McEvoy P.G. Way B.J. Winteridge	[8]
1979	Walton Heath Golf Club	Kevin Miller	England	140	1 stroke	Peter Thomas	[9]
1978	Walton Heath Golf Club	Peter Thomas	England	141	1 stroke	Stuart Robson	[10]
1977	Walton Heath Golf Club	John Davies	England	141	1 stroke	Allan Brodie	[11]
1976	Walton Heath Golf Club	Allan Brodie	Scotland	141	1 stroke	David Hyde	[12]
1975	Walton Heath Golf Club	Michael Bonallack	England	142	1 stroke	Keith Tate	[13]
1974	Walton Heath Golf Club	Peter Hedges	England	146	1 stroke	Peter Benka David Harrison	[14]
1973	Walton Heath Golf Club	John Davies	England	142	1 stroke	Nigel Denham	[15]
1972	Sunningdale Golf Club	H Ashby P Davidson R Hunter	England   England   England	143	Tie
1971	Sunningdale Golf Club	Michael Bonallack	England	137	6 strokes	Roddie Carr	[16]
1970	Sunningdale Golf Club	David Harrison	England	140	1 stroke	Bruce Critchley	[17]
1969	Sunningdale Golf Club	Michael Bonallack Jimmy Hayes	England   England	142	Tie		[18]
1968	Sunningdale Golf Club	Michael Bonallack	England	143	1 stroke	Ted Dexter Peter Oosterhuis	[19]
1967	Sunningdale Golf Club	Michael Bonallack Bob Durrant	England   England	141	Tie		[20]
1966	Sunningdale Golf Club	Bobby Cole Peter Townsend	South Africa   England	142	Tie		[21]
1965	Sunningdale Golf Club	Clive Clark	England	139	2 strokes	Dudley Millensted	[22]
1964	Sunningdale Golf Club	David Moffat	England	148	1 stroke	Michael Burgess	[23]
1963	Sunningdale Golf Club	Bob Mummery	England	143	5 strokes
1962	Sunningdale Golf Club	Brian Chapman	England	145	4 strokes	P Green David Harrison	[24]
1961	Sunningdale Golf Club	Michael Bonallack David Harrison	England   England	141	Tie
1960	Sunningdale Golf Club	Doug Sewell	England	142	1 stroke	F Francis G Huddy Guy Wolstenholme	[25]
1959	Sunningdale Golf Club	Alan Bussell	Scotland	141	1 stroke	Guy Wolstenholme	[26]
1958	Sunningdale Golf Club	Michael Lunt	England	141	3 strokes	J Walker	[27]
1957	Sunningdale Golf Club	Guy Wolstenholme	England	138	3 strokes	Philip Scrutton	[28]
1956	Sunningdale Golf Club	David Blair	Scotland	141	3 strokes	Philip Scrutton	[29]
1955	Sunningdale Golf Club	David Blair	Scotland	140	5 strokes	W Henderson	[30]
1954	Sunningdale Golf Club	Harold Ridgley	United States	143	4 strokes	Doug Bachli Herb Berwick	[31]
1953	Sunningdale Golf Club	John Langley	England	143	2 strokes
1952	Sunningdale Golf Club	John Langley	England	140	6 strokes	Dick Chapman
1951	Southerndown Golf Club	Joe Carr	Ireland	143	7 strokes	Dick Chapman
1950	Western Gailes Golf Club	Alex Whyte	Scotland	148	2 strokes		[32]
1949	Royal Dublin Golf Club	Ronnie White	England	142	1 stroke
1948	Sunningdale Golf Club	Dick Chapman	United States	143	4 strokes
1940–1947: No tournament
1939	Pulborough Golf Club	Sam Roberts	Wales	143	2 strokes	Stanley Anderson	[33]
1938	Bramshot Golf Club	Cameron Anderson	Scotland	150	2 strokes	Andrew McNair	[34]
1937	West Herts Golf Club	Robert Sweeny Jr.	United States	137	7 strokes	Rex Hartley A G S Penman K V Scott	[35]
1936	Ashridge Golf Club	Jim Ferrier	Australia	139	3 strokes	Lionel Munn	[36]
1935	Berkshire Golf Club	Ivor Thomas	England	147	1 stroke	Andrew McNair Robert Sweeny Jr.	[37]
1934	Walton Heath Golf Club	Lister Hartley	England	147	4 strokes	Noel Layton Lionel Munn Sam Roberts	[38]
1933	Stoke Poges Golf Club	Rex Hartley	England	143	1 stroke	Cecil Hayward	[39]
1932	Woking Golf Club	Rex Hartley	England	147	3 strokes	Raymond Oppenheimer	[40]
1931	West Hill Golf Club	William Murray	Scotland	147	1 stroke	John Beck	[41]
1930	Sunningdale Golf Club	Bobby Jones	United States	143	1 stroke	William Brownlow	[42]
1929	Walton Heath Golf Club	Douglas Grant	United States	151	1 stroke	William Murray	[43]
1928	Northwood Golf Club	Cyril Tolley	Scotland	150	1 stroke	William Hope	[44]
1927	Beaconsfield Golf Club	Roger Wethered	England	147	1 stroke	Cyril Tolley	[45]
1926	Addington Golf Club	Cyril Tolley Tony Torrance	England   Scotland	147	Tie		[46]
1925	Moor Park Golf Club	John Beck Ernest Holderness	England   England	147	Tie		[47]
1924	Moor Park Golf Club	Colin Aylmer	England	149	2 strokes	William Murray	[48]
1923	Oxhey Golf Club	Cyril Tolley	England	153	1 stroke	W A Powell	[49]
1922	Stoke Poges Golf Club	William Murray	Scotland	151	4 strokes	Colin Aylmer	[50]
1921	Sunningdale Golf Club	Mark Seymour	England	149	4 strokes	Alex Armour Hardit Malik Tony Torrance	[51]
1920	St George's Hill Golf Club	Stoner Crowther	England	154	1 stroke	Tommy Armour	[52]
1919	Royal Mid-Surrey Golf Club	Bernard Darwin	England	153	1 stroke	Edwin Scott	[53]
1915–1918: No tournament
1914	Sunningdale Golf Club	Harold Hilton	England	151	4 strokes	Harold Gillies	[54]
1913	Walton Heath Golf Club	Abe Mitchell	England	152	5 strokes	Robert Harris	[55]
1912	Royal Mid-Surrey Golf Club	Robert Harris	Scotland	147	2 strokes	B Hammond-Chambers	[56]
1911	Stoke Poges Golf Club	Robert Harris	Scotland	145	3 strokes	Herbert Taylor	[57]
1910	Sunningdale Golf Club	Abe Mitchell	England	150	5 strokes	Angus Hambro	[58]
1909	Royal Mid-Surrey Golf Club	Cecil Hutchison	Scotland	146	7 strokes	Robert Harris	[59]

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