Sloan Morpeth Trophy

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The Sloan Morpeth Trophy was an amateur team golf tournament, played between Australia and New Zealand. It was contested irregularly from 1947 to 2016. [1] The trophy was presented by Sloan Morpeth in 1956. [1] From 1993 to 2005 the two countries played each other as part of the Four Nations Team Championship, a competition which also involved Canada and Japan, while from 2007 to 2012 it was played as part of the Trans Tasman Cup. [2] In 2016 the trophy was contested using scores from the two qualifying rounds of the Australian Amateur.

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Format

Except for the final event in 2016, the tournament was match-play. The size of the teams and the format varied but consisted of a combination of foursomes and singles matches. In 2016 the teams had four players with the best three scores from two stroke-play rounds counting towards the team total.

Results

YearVenueWinning teamScoreLosing teamRef
1947 Wellington Golf Club Tied33 [3] [4]
1948 Royal Melbourne Golf Club New Zealand4½1½Australia [5] [6]
1952Christchurch Golf ClubTied33 [7] [8]
1953 The Australian Golf Club Australia51New Zealand [9] [10]
1956Wanganui Golf ClubAustralia3½2½New Zealand [11]
1961 Kingston Heath Golf Club New Zealand5½3½Australia [12] [13]
1964 Pennant Hills Golf Club Australia5½½New Zealand [14]
1965Christchurch Golf ClubNew Zealand5½3½Australia [15]
1966Manukau Golf ClubAustralia60New Zealand [16]
1967Hamilton Golf ClubAustralia54New Zealand [17] [18]
1969The Grange Golf ClubAustralia75New Zealand [19] [20]
1976Muriwai Golf ClubNew Zealand3½2½Australia
1977 Victoria Golf Club Australia42New Zealand [21]
1980Muriwai Golf ClubNew Zealand7½2½Australia [22]
1982Manawatu Golf ClubTied55 [23]
1983 Commonwealth Golf Club Australia93New Zealand [24] [25]
1984St. Clair Golf ClubNew Zealand8½3½Australia [26]
1986Hutt Golf ClubAustralia7½4½New Zealand [27]
1987 Royal Hobart Golf Club New Zealand10½1½Australia [28]
1988North Shore Golf ClubAustralia75New Zealand [29]
1990Sanctuary Cove Golf ClubAustralia93New Zealand [30]
1991Hastings Golf ClubAustralia75New Zealand [31]
1992Russley Golf ClubNew Zealand126Australia [32] [33]
2007 Royal Canberra Golf Club New Zealand84Australia [34]
2008 Royal Wellington Golf Club Australia5½4½New Zealand
2009 Royal Canberra Golf Club Australia84New Zealand [35]
2010 Royal Wellington Golf Club Australia7½4½New Zealand [36]
2012Peninsula Golf ClubNew Zealand6½5½Australia [37] [38]
2016 Metropolitan Golf Club &
Peninsula Kingswood CGC		Australia436446New Zealand

Source: [1]

Teams

Australia

Source: [1]

New Zealand

Source: [39] [1]

See also

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