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- ↑ Pendal, Phillip; Royal Perth Golf Club (2008), Royal Perth : a history of golf in Australia's west from 1895 to 2008, Published for Royal Perth Golf Club by Victor Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9577829-8-3
- ↑ "Now It's the Royal Perth Golf Club". The Daily News . Vol. LV, no. 19, 412. Western Australia. 11 June 1937. p. 8 (THE DAILY NEWS Sports Supplement). Retrieved 17 February 2021– via National Library of Australia.
