Tournament information | |
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Location | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
Established | 1913 |
Course(s) | Kingston Beach Golf Club |
Par | 71 |
Tour(s) | PGA Tour of Australasia |
Format | Stroke play |
Month played | February |
Tournament record score | |
Aggregate | 269 Ted Ball (1964) |
To par | −17 Ian Roberts (1985) |
Current champion | |
Samuel Slater | |
Location Map | |
The Tasmanian Open is an annual golf tournament held in Tasmania, Australia.
The Tasmanian amateur championship was first played in 1902 as a 36 hole stroke-play event. From 1910 the stroke-play acted as qualifying for a match-play stage, with the leading four players qualifying. [1] In 1913 the 36 hole stroke-play event was opened up to professionals as well as amateurs and the winner became the Tasmanian Open champion. The first winner was an amateur, Eustace Headlam. [2] This was the only event before World War I, the championship being revived in 1919 and was again won by Headlam. [3] There was no Open championship between 1923 and 1929, the event again being restricted to amateurs. The 1922 Open was won by Robert Nettlefold and when it restarted in 1930 it was won by his son, Len Nettlefold, with Jock Robertson, the Kingston Beach professional, the runner-up. [4] [5] Len Nettlefold won the event 7 times in 8 years and won for an eighth time in 1947. [6] In 1938 Alf Toogood, Jock Robertson's successor at Kingston Beach, became the first professional winner and he was followed by Denis Denehey in 1939. [7] [8]
After World War II, amateurs continued to be successful, including 19-year-old Peter Toogood, the son of Alf Toogood, in 1949. [9] Alf himself won the following year, 1950, pushing Peter into second place. [10] Peter Toogood won again in 1951 and would win every year from 1954 to 1959, matching Len Nettlefold's record of 8 championships. [11] The Open was expanded to 72 holes in 1953. Ron Smith, an amateur from Victoria, won with 60-year-old Alf Toogood one of the runners-up. [12]
In 1961, a small group of New South Wales professionals went on a promotional tour of Tasmania, and played in the Open. One of them, Alan Murray won, with two others, second and third. [13] [14] The following year the Tasmanian government gave a grant towards the Open, and the £1,000 prize money attracted a number of professionals. [15] Frank Phillips and Peter Thomson tied on 279, but there was something of anti-climax since Thomson had assumed that Phillips would win and had left for the mainland, forfeiting the championship to Phillips. [16] The £1,000 prize money continued for a few years, rising to A$10,000 by 1975 and reaching A$100,000 in 1988 and 1989. [17] [18] [19] There had only been three professional wins up to 1960 but from 1961 to 1992 the situation reversed, with only one amateur winner in that period, Max Robison in 1978.
The 1991 event had prize money of A$85,000, failing to meet the minimum requirement for a tour event. [20] After 1992, the event failed to attract leading professionals and there has only been one professional winner since 1992, Simon Hawkes in 2016.
Year | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | Venue | Ref. |
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Tasmanian Open | |||||||
1992 | Darren Cole | 281 | −3 | 2 strokes | Taylor Murphy | Mowbray | [21] |
Tattersall's Tasmanian Open | |||||||
1991 | Chris Gray | 280 | −8 | 2 strokes | Jon Evans Bradley Hughes Robert Stephens | Royal Hobart | [22] |
1990: No tournament | |||||||
1989 | Ian Stanley | 279 | −1 | Playoff [lower-alpha 1] | Peter O'Malley | Devonport | [19] |
Tasmanian Open | |||||||
1988 | Brett Ogle | 284 | −4 | 1 stroke | Brett Johns (a) | Tasmania | [18] |
Foster's Tattersall Tasmanian Open | |||||||
1987 | Brian Jones | 283 | −5 | 1 stroke | Mike Colandro | Tasmania | [23] |
Foster's Tasmanian Open | |||||||
1986 | Stewart Ginn (4) | 281 | −7 | Playoff [lower-alpha 2] | Magnus Persson | Royal Hobart | [24] |
1985 | Ian Roberts | 271 | −17 | 2 strokes | Ian Baker-Finch | Riverside | [25] |
Tasmanian Open | |||||||
1984 | Mike Clayton | 275 | −13 | 2 strokes | John Clifford Wayne Grady | Kingston Beach | [26] |
1983 | Bob Shaw | 271 | −9 | 1 stroke | Ian Stanley | Devonport | [27] |
Tattersall's Tasmanian Open | |||||||
1982 | Colin Bishop | 286 | −2 | 1 stroke | Mike Cahill Rodger Davis Stewart Ginn Jack Newton | Tasmania | [28] |
1981 | Roger Stephens | 276 | −12 | 2 strokes | Colin Bishop | Launceston | [29] |
1980 | Stewart Ginn (3) | 280 | −8 | 3 strokes | Brian Jones | Royal Hobart | [30] |
1979 | Marty Bohen | 271 | −9 | 4 strokes | Terry Kendall | Devonport | [31] |
1978 | Max Robison (a) | 287 | −1 | 4 strokes | Ian Stanley | Tasmania | [32] |
1977 | Bill Dunk (2) | 272 | −12 | 4 strokes | Mike Cahill | Mowbray | [33] |
Tasmanian Open | |||||||
1976 | David Good | 283 | −5 | Playoff [lower-alpha 3] | Stewart Ginn Brian Jones Ian Stanley | Royal Hobart | [34] |
1975 | Stewart Ginn (2) | 272 | −8 | Playoff [lower-alpha 4] | Ross Metherell | Devonport | [17] |
1974 | Bob Shearer | 281 | −7 | Playoff | Ted Ball | Tasmania | [35] |
1973 | Stewart Ginn | 280 | −4 | 2 strokes | David Good Ian Paul Randall Vines | Claremont | [36] |
1972 | Bill Dunk | 272 | −8 | 5 strokes | Devonport | [37] | |
1971 | Frank Phillips (2) | 285 | −3 | 3 strokes | Tim Woolbank | Tasmania | [38] |
1970 | David Graham | 282 | 1 stroke | Terry Kendall | Kingston Beach | [39] | |
1969 | Alan Murray (3) | 280 | −8 | 1 stroke | Randall Vines | Riverside | [40] |
1968 | Randall Vines | 274 | −14 | 17 stroke | Walter Godfrey | Royal Hobart | [41] |
1967 | Bob Stanton | Devonport | [42] | ||||
1966 | Tim Woolbank | Claremont | [43] | ||||
1965 | Alan Murray (2) | 287 | 1 stroke | Ted Ball | Launceston | [44] | |
1964 | Ted Ball | 269 | 9 strokes | Peter Thomson | Kingston Beach | [45] | |
1963 | Peter Mills | 278 | 7 strokes | Darrell Welch | Riverside | [46] | |
1962 | Frank Phillips | 279 | Playoff [lower-alpha 5] | Peter Thomson | Royal Hobart | [16] | |
1961 | Alan Murray | 281 | 4 strokes | Darrell Welch | Launceston | [13] | |
1960 | Des Turner (a) | ||||||
1959 | Peter Toogood (a) (8) | ||||||
1958 | Peter Toogood (a) (7) | ||||||
1957 | Peter Toogood (a) (6) | ||||||
1956 | Peter Toogood (a) (5) | ||||||
1955 | Peter Toogood (a) (4) | ||||||
1954 | Peter Toogood (a) (3) | 283 | −1 | 7 strokes | Len Bowditch (a) | Royal Hobart | [47] |
1953 | Ron Smith (a) | 298 | +6 | 1 stroke | Peter Brown (a) Alf Toogood | Launceston | [12] |
1952 | Lance Baynton (a) | 149 | Playoff [lower-alpha 6] | Len Bowditch (a) John Toogood (a) | Kingston Beach | [48] | |
1951 | Peter Toogood (a) (2) | 143 | 9 strokes | G. S. Bailey | Launceston | [11] | |
1950 | Alf Toogood (2) | 142 | 3 strokes | Peter Toogood (a) | Royal Hobart | [10] | |
1949 | Peter Toogood (a) | 143 | Playoff [lower-alpha 7] | Ron Smith (a) | Launceston | [9] | |
1948 | E. J. Willing (a) | 148 | 2 strokes | Peter Brown (a) | Kingston Beach | [49] | |
1947 | Len Nettlefold (a) (8) | 152 | Playoff [lower-alpha 8] | Alf Toogood | Launceston | [6] | |
1946 | Len Bowditch (a) | 147 | 1 stroke | Alf Toogood | Royal Hobart | [50] | |
1940–1945: No tournament due to World War II | |||||||
1939 | Denis Denehey | 148 | 2 strokes | Len Nettlefold (a) | Launceston | [8] | |
1938 | Alf Toogood | 148 | 3 strokes | Denis Denehey | Kingston Beach | [7] | |
1937 | Len Nettlefold (a) (7) | 144 | 1 stroke | Alf Toogood | Launceston | [51] | |
1936 | Len Nettlefold (a) (6) | 132 | 9 strokes | C. G. Thynne (a) | Royal Hobart | [52] | |
1935 | Len Nettlefold (a) (5) | 147 | 4 strokes | Bill Robertson | Launceston | [53] | |
1934 | Len Nettlefold (a) (4) | 145 | 2 strokes | Jock Robertson | Kingston Beach | [54] | |
1933 | Terence Brown (a) | 152 | 1 stroke | Ellis Davies (a) J. Melrose (a) | Launceston | [55] | |
1932 | Len Nettlefold (a) (3) | 142 | 3 strokes | Eustace Headlam | Royal Hobart | [56] | |
1931 | Len Nettlefold (a) (2) | 143 | 5 strokes | Jock Robertson | Launceston | [57] | |
1930 | Len Nettlefold (a) | 148 | 1 stroke | Jock Robertson | Kingston Beach | [5] | |
1923–1929: No tournament | |||||||
1922 | Robert Nettlefold (a) | 154 | 1 stroke | Eustace Headlam (a) Len Nettlefold (a) | Hobart | [4] | |
1921 | Thomas Archer Jr. (a) | 157 | 1 stroke | R O'Connor (a) | Launceston | [58] | |
1920 | Hugh Smith (a) | 157 | 3 strokes | Felix Headlam (a) | Hobart | [59] | |
1919 | Eustace Headlam (a) (2) | 152 | 3 strokes | Henry Allport (a) | Launceston | [3] | |
1914–1918: No tournament due to World War I | |||||||
1913 | Eustace Headlam (a) | 152 | 7 strokes | George Fawcett (a) | Launceston | [2] |
Source: [60]
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