Kooyonga Golf Club

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Kooyonga Golf Club
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Location in Australia
Coordinates 34°55′41″S138°31′59″E / 34.928°S 138.533°E / -34.928; 138.533
Location Lockleys, South Australia, Australia
Established1923
TypePrivate
Total holes18
Events hosted Australian Open
Website kooyongagolf.com.au
Designed by H.C. Rymill
Par 72
Length6,308 m (6,899 yd)

Kooyonga Golf Club is a private golf club in Australia, located in South Australia at Lockleys, a suburb west of Adelaide. Members entry is off May Terrace, Brooklyn Park.

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Work on the course started in 1922 and the first nine holes opened on 19 May 1923. [1] [2] In August, the course hosted a country championship, for players from outside Adelaide, won by Mr. Haehrmann from Ambleside. [3] The same month the Australian Open was played at Royal Adelaide and the opportunity was taken to organise a 36-hole professional event at the club, on the day after the open. Arthur Ham won the event with a score of 161, a stroke ahead of Arthur Le Fevre. [4] the course was extended to 18 holes in 1924.

The Simpson Cup was originally for competition between The Kooyonga Golf Club & The Royal Adelaide Golf Club from 1927 to 1938. Post World War 2 the Grange & Glenelg Golf Clubs joined the annual competition and in 2008 Southern District and Mid-North District entered teams also. [5] As at 2022 Kooyonga has won 33 Simpson Cups and Royal Adelaide has won 10 [6]

Kooyonga has hosted six Australian Opens (five men's and one women's), twenty South Australian Opens and two Australian Amateur Championships.

The world's greatest golfers (including Walter Hagen and the "Big Three" Palmer, Nicklaus and Player) have all played at Kooyonga over its long and rich history.

The Women's Australian Open was scheduled to return to Kooyonga in February 2022, however Covid travel restrictions have caused that event to be cancelled for the year. [14]

The golf course also has a history of high profile members, including Sir Donald Bradman, [15] Australian Test Cricket player and media personality Greg Blewett, [16] Tennis legend Mark Woodforde, Cricket legend Rod Marsh and State Footballer Andrew Payze among other captains of South Australian and Australian Industry [17]

Kooyonga Golf Course, albeit exclusive is noted as a significant attraction for interstate and international visitors by the South Australian Government Tourism Commission [18]

In 2023 the Australian Golf Digest Magazine ranked the top 100 Golf Courses in Australia, and Kooyonga was elevated to the number 20 position on that list. [19]

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A green at Kooyonga Golf Club
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Kooyonga Golf Club main entrance.

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References

  1. ↑ "New golf course". The Mail (Adelaide) . Vol. 11, no. 523. South Australia. 20 May 1922. p. 5. Retrieved 9 February 2021– via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "Kooyonga golf club, Lockleys". The Observer (Adelaide) . Vol. LXXX, no. 5964. South Australia. 19 May 1923. p. 18. Retrieved 9 February 2021– via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "The country championship". The Chronicle (Adelaide) . Vol. LXVI, no. 3491. South Australia. 18 August 1923. p. 26. Retrieved 9 February 2021– via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "Play at Kooyonga". The Register (Adelaide) . Vol. LXXXVIII, no. 25786. South Australia. 20 August 1923. p. 9. Retrieved 8 February 2021– via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ "Pennant Golf". Glenelg Golf Club. 3 January 2022. Retrieved 3 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ↑ "Simpson Cup". Kooyonga Golf Club. 3 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ↑ "Kooyonga Secretary Remanded". Trove. 4 April 1930. Retrieved 1 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ↑ "Hagen-Kirkwood exhibition delights golfers - The Kalgoorlie Miner". Trove. 7 May 1937. Retrieved 1 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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  13. ↑ "Women's Australian Open". Australian Golf Digest. 19 February 2018. Retrieved 1 January 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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  16. ↑ Ashenden, Paul (27 November 2021). "My Saturday Ritual - Greg Blewett". The Advertiser - SA Weekend. p. 20.
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