ICL International

ICL International

Tournament information
Location	Pretoria, South Africa
Established	1911
Course(s)	Zwartkop Country Club
Par	72
Tour(s)	Southern Africa Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	R  550,000
Month played	January
Final year	1995
Tournament record score
Aggregate	265 Bobby Locke (1939) 265 Bobby Locke (1954) 265 Dale Hayes (1978)
To par	−22 Tony Johnstone (1988)
Final champion
Ashley Roestoff
Location map
Zwartkop CC Location in South Africa Show map of South Africa Zwartkop CC Location in Gauteng Show map of Gauteng

The ICL International, formerly the Transvaal Open, was a golf tournament in South Africa as part of the Southern Africa Tour. The list of winners includes major champions Gary Player, Nick Faldo, and Nick Price.

The tournament was initially played at Kensington Golf Club in Johannesburg. It moved to Zwartkop Country Club in Pretoria from 1984 to 1995. ^[1]

Winners

Year	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Ref.
ICL International
1995	Ashley Roestoff	275	−13	4 strokes	Michael Christie Kevin Stone
1994	Nick Price (3)	267	−21	9 strokes	David Frost Bruce Vaughan
1993	Nick Price (2)	273	−15	2 strokes	Mark McNulty Bruce Vaughan
1992	Kevin Johnson	270	−18	2 strokes	De Wet Basson Tony Johnstone
1991	Fulton Allem	271	−17	3 strokes	Gavan Levenson Ashley Roestoff Wayne Westner
1990	Gavan Levenson (2)	269	−19	2 strokes	Wayne Westner
1989	Chris Williams	272	−16	1 stroke	J. C. Anderson
1988	Tony Johnstone (2)	266	−22	1 stroke	Denis Durnian
1987	Tony Johnstone	271	−17	6 strokes	Justin Hobday Wilhelm Winsnes
1986	Gavan Levenson	270	−18	1 stroke	David Frost
1985	Nick Price	268	−20	1 stroke	Gavan Levenson
1984	David Feherty	271	−17	1 stroke	Gavan Levenson Nick Price
ICL Tournament Players Classic
1983	Wayne Westner	273	−15	1 stroke	Allan Henning
ICL International
1982: No tournament
1981	Simon Hobday	272	−16	7 strokes	John Bland
1980	Simon Hobday	281	−7	1 stroke	John Bland Ian Mosey Denis Watson
1979	Nick Faldo	268	−16	3 strokes	Allan Henning
1978	Dale Hayes	265	−15	Playoff	Hugh Baiocchi
1977	Gary Player (6)	268	−12	2 strokes	Bobby Cole
1976 (Dec)	Hugh Baiocchi (2)	268	−12	1 stroke	Tienie Britz Gary Player	[2]
1976 (Jan)	Peter Townsend	207 [a]	−3	1 stroke	Dale Hayes Allan Henning	[3]
ICL Transvaal Open
1975: No tournament [b]
1974	Vin Baker	280	−8	Playoff	Andries Oosthuizen	[5] [6]
1973 (Dec)	Hugh Baiocchi	276	−12	1 stroke	Dale Hayes	[7]
1973 (Jan)	John Fourie	280	−4	Playoff	Allan Henning
1972	Bobby Cole	270	−14	Playoff	Tienie Britz
Leykor Transvaal Open
1971	Peter Oosterhuis	279	−9	6 strokes	Graham Henning
Transvaal Open
1970	John Bland	281		1 stroke	Don Gammon Hugh Inggs
1969	Bobby Verwey (2)
1968	Cobie Legrange
1967	Allan Henning	274		9 strokes	Cobie Legrange	[8]
1966	Gary Player (5)
1965	Bobby Verwey
1964: No tournament
1963	Retief Waltman	277		1 stroke	Denis Hutchinson	[9]
1962	Gary Player (4)
1961 (Dec)	Gary Player (3)	266		9 strokes	Bobby Locke	[10]
1961 (Jan)	Alan Brookes
1960	Gary Player (2)	271
1959	Gary Player	266
1958	Bobby Locke (11)	276
1957	Harold Henning	278
1956	Bruce Keyter	281		1 stroke	Bobby Locke	[11]
1955	Bobby Locke (10)	285
1954	Bobby Locke (9)	265
1953	Tommy Trevena
1952	Sandy Guthrie
1951	Bobby Locke (8)
1950	Bobby Locke (7)	280
1949	Bobby Locke (6)
1948	Otway Hayes
1947	Roderick Dunn
1946	Bobby Locke (5)
1941–1945: No tournament
1940	Bobby Locke (4)
1939	Bobby Locke (3)	265
1938	Bobby Locke (2)	277		4 strokes	Sid Brews	[12]
1937	Bobby Locke (a)	286		4 strokes	Alf Padgham	[13] [14]
1936	Sid Brews (8)	285		1 stroke	Bobby Locke	[15]
1935	Sid Brews (7)					[16]
1934	Sid Brews (6)
1933	Sid Brews (5)
1932	Sid Brews (4)
1931	Sid Brews (3)
1930	Sid Brews (2)
1929	Charles McIlvenny (2)
1928: No tournament
1927	Charles McIlvenny
1926	Bert Elkin
1925: No tournament
1924	Sid Brews
1923	Jock Brews (3)
1922	Fred Jangle
1921	Jock Brews (2)
1920	Laurie Waters (3)
1919	Laurie Waters (2)
1914–1918: No tournament
1913	Jock Brews					[17]
1912: No tournament
1911	Laurie Waters					[18]

Sources: ^{[19] [20]}

Notes

1. Shortened to 54 holes due to rain.
2. The tournament was postponed in December 1975, and rescheduled to January 1976. ^[4]

References

1. "Zwartkop - Since 1933..." Zwartkop Country Club. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
2. The Allied Book of South African Sport & Sports Records. SASBOR. 1978. p. 1944. ISBN   9780620128827.
3. "Peter Townsend". The Glasgow Herald . 19 January 1976. p. 19.
4. McCormack, Mark H. (1977). The World of Professional Golf 1977. Collins. pp. 254–255. ISBN   0002168790.
5. "Bembridge in lead". The Glasgow Herald . 16 December 1974. p. 8.
6. McCormack, Mark H. (1975). The World of Professional Golf. Collins. p. 417. ISBN   0002119552.
7. "Transvaal title for Baiocchi". The Glasgow Herald . 24 December 1973. p. 4.
8. "Will Takes Third Place". The Glasgow Herald . 30 January 1967. p. 4 – via Google News Archive.
9. "S. African Takes Golf Open". The Canberra Times. 16 December 1963. p. 24. Retrieved 5 March 2021– via Trove.
10. "Transvaal title To Player". The Straits Times. 25 December 1961.
11. "Locke beaten". The Argus. 20 February 1956.
12. "Ferrier's Notebook". The Sydney Morning Herald. New South Wales, Australia. 15 April 1938. p. 13. Retrieved 18 January 2020– via Trove.
13. "Transvaal Open". 26 January 1937.
14. "26 Jan 1937, Page 17 - The Age at Newspapers.com" . Retrieved 28 August 2021– via Newspapers.com.
15. "Sid Brews wins Transvaal Championship". The Glasgow Herald . 25 February 1936. p. 42.
16. "Transvaal Open". 25 April 1935.
17. "Golf Notes". Referee. 17 February 1915.
18. Spalding's Official Golf Guide for 1912. p. 179.
19. Donaldson, K. C. (1949). The South African Sporting Encyclopaedia and Who's Who. Donaldson's. p. 49.
20. Scharff, Robert, ed. (1970). Golf Magazine's Encyclopedia of Golf. Harper & Row. p. 111. ISBN   978-0-06-011579-1.