Tasmanian Open

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Tasmanian Open
Tournament information
LocationHobart, Tasmania, Australia
Established1913
Course(s)Kingston Beach Golf Club
Par71
Tour(s)PGA Tour of Australasia
FormatStroke play
Month playedFebruary
Tournament record score
Aggregate269 Ted Ball (1964)
To par−17 Ian Roberts (1985)
Current champion
Australia Samuel Slater
Location map
Kingston Beach GC is located in Australia
Kingston Beach GC
Kingston Beach GC
Location in Australia
Kingston Beach GC is located in Tasmania
Kingston Beach GC
Kingston Beach GC
Location in Tasmania

The Tasmanian Open is an annual golf tournament held in Tasmania, Australia.

History

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.

Winners

Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up Venue Ref.
Tasmanian Open
1992 Australia Darren Cole 281 −3 2 strokes Australia Taylor Murphy Mowbray [21]
Tattersall's Tasmanian Open
1991 Australia Chris Gray 280 −8 2 strokes Australia Jon Evans
Australia Bradley Hughes
Australia Robert Stephens		 Royal Hobart [22]
1990: No tournament
1989 Australia Ian Stanley 279 −1 Playoff[a] Australia Peter O'Malley Devonport [19]
Tasmanian Open
1988 Australia Brett Ogle 284 −4 1 stroke Australia Brett Johns (a) Tasmania [18]
Foster's Tattersall Tasmanian Open
1987 Australia Brian Jones 283 −5 1 stroke United States Mike Colandro Tasmania [23]
Foster's Tasmanian Open
1986 Australia Stewart Ginn (4) 281 −7 Playoff[b]
Magnus Persson
 Royal Hobart [24]
1985 Australia Ian Roberts 271 −17 2 strokes Australia Ian Baker-Finch Riverside [25]
Tasmanian Open
1984 Australia Mike Clayton 275 −13 2 strokes Australia John Clifford
Australia Wayne Grady		 Kingston Beach [26]
1983 Australia Bob Shaw 271 −9 1 stroke Australia Ian Stanley Devonport [27]
Tattersall's Tasmanian Open
1982 Australia Colin Bishop 286 −2 1 stroke Australia Mike Cahill
Australia Rodger Davis
Australia Stewart Ginn
Australia Jack Newton		 Tasmania [28]
1981 Australia Roger Stephens 276 −12 2 strokes Australia Colin Bishop Launceston [29]
1980 Australia Stewart Ginn (3) 280 −8 3 strokes Australia Brian Jones Royal Hobart [30]
1979 United States Marty Bohen 271 −9 4 strokes New Zealand Terry Kendall Devonport [31]
1978 Australia Max Robison (a) 287 −1 4 strokes Australia Ian Stanley Tasmania [32]
1977 Australia Bill Dunk (2) 272 −12 4 strokes Australia Mike Cahill Mowbray [33]
Tasmanian Open
1976 Australia David Good 283 −5 Playoff[c] Australia Stewart Ginn
Australia Brian Jones
Australia Ian Stanley		 Royal Hobart [34]
1975 Australia Stewart Ginn (2) 272 −8 Playoff[d] Australia Ross Metherell Devonport [17]
1974 Australia Bob Shearer 281 −7 Playoff Australia Ted Ball Tasmania [35]
1973 Australia Stewart Ginn 280 −4 2 strokes Australia David Good
Australia Ian Paul
Australia Randall Vines		 Claremont [36]
1972 Australia Bill Dunk 272 −8 5 strokes Devonport [37]
1971 Australia Frank Phillips (2) 285 −3 3 strokes Australia Tim Woolbank Tasmania [38]
1970 Australia David Graham 282 1 stroke New Zealand Terry Kendall Kingston Beach [39]
1969 Australia Alan Murray (3) 280 −8 1 stroke Australia Randall Vines Riverside [40]
1968 Australia Randall Vines 274 −14 17 stroke New Zealand Walter Godfrey Royal Hobart [41]
1967 Australia Bob Stanton Devonport [42]
1966 Australia Tim Woolbank Claremont [43]
1965 Australia Alan Murray (2) 287 1 stroke Australia Ted Ball Launceston [44]
1964 Australia Ted Ball 269 9 strokes Australia Peter Thomson Kingston Beach [45]
1963 Australia Peter Mills 278 7 strokes Australia Darrell Welch Riverside [46]
1962 Australia Frank Phillips 279 Playoff[e] Australia Peter Thomson Royal Hobart [16]
1961 Australia Alan Murray 281 4 strokes Australia Darrell Welch Launceston [13]
1960 Australia Des Turner (a)
1959 Australia Peter Toogood (a) (8)
1958 Australia Peter Toogood (a) (7)
1957 Australia Peter Toogood (a) (6)
1956 Australia Peter Toogood (a) (5)
1955 Australia Peter Toogood (a) (4)
1954 Australia Peter Toogood (a) (3) 283 −1 7 strokes Australia Len Bowditch (a) Royal Hobart [47]
1953 Australia Ron Smith (a) 298 +6 1 stroke Australia Peter Brown (a)
Australia Alf Toogood		 Launceston [12]
1952 Australia Lance Baynton (a) 149 Playoff[f] Australia Len Bowditch (a)
Australia John Toogood (a)		 Kingston Beach [48]
1951 Australia Peter Toogood (a) (2) 143 9 strokes Australia G. S. Bailey Launceston [11]
1950 Australia Alf Toogood (2) 142 3 strokes Australia Peter Toogood (a) Royal Hobart [10]
1949 Australia Peter Toogood (a) 143 Playoff[g] Australia Ron Smith (a) Launceston [9]
1948 Australia E. J. Willing (a) 148 2 strokes Australia Peter Brown (a) Kingston Beach [49]
1947 Australia Len Nettlefold (a) (8) 152 Playoff[h] Australia Alf Toogood Launceston [6]
1946 Australia Len Bowditch (a) 147 1 stroke Australia Alf Toogood Royal Hobart [50]
1940–1945: No tournament due to World War II
1939 Australia Denis Denehey 148 2 strokes Australia Len Nettlefold (a) Launceston [8]
1938 Australia Alf Toogood 148 3 strokes Australia Denis Denehey Kingston Beach [7]
1937 Australia Len Nettlefold (a) (7) 144 1 stroke Australia Alf Toogood Launceston [51]
1936 Australia Len Nettlefold (a) (6) 132 9 strokes England C. G. Thynne (a) Royal Hobart [52]
1935 Australia Len Nettlefold (a) (5) 147 4 strokes Australia Bill Robertson Launceston [53]
1934 Australia Len Nettlefold (a) (4) 145 2 strokes Australia Jock Robertson Kingston Beach [54]
1933 Australia Terence Brown (a) 152 1 stroke Australia Ellis Davies (a)
Australia J. Melrose (a)		 Launceston [55]
1932 Australia Len Nettlefold (a) (3) 142 3 strokes Australia Eustace Headlam Royal Hobart [56]
1931 Australia Len Nettlefold (a) (2) 143 5 strokes Australia Jock Robertson Launceston [57]
1930 Australia Len Nettlefold (a) 148 1 stroke Australia Jock Robertson Kingston Beach [5]
1923–1929: No tournament
1922 Australia Robert Nettlefold (a) 154 1 stroke Australia Eustace Headlam (a)
Australia Len Nettlefold (a)		 Hobart [4]
1921 Australia Thomas Archer Jr. (a) 157 1 stroke Australia R O'Connor (a) Launceston [58]
1920 Australia Hugh Smith (a) 157 3 strokes Australia Felix Headlam (a) Hobart [59]
1919 Australia Eustace Headlam (a) (2) 152 3 strokes Australia Henry Allport (a) Launceston [3]
1914–1918: No tournament due to World War I
1913 Australia Eustace Headlam (a) 152 7 strokes Australia George Fawcett (a) Launceston [2]
  1. ^ Stanley won at the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.
  2. ^ Ginn won at the second hole of a sudden-death playoff.
  3. ^ Good won at the fifth hole of a sudden-death playoff.
  4. ^ Ginn won at the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.
  5. ^ Phillips won by forfeit.
  6. ^ Baynton won a 6 hole playoff by 2 strokes.
  7. ^ Toogood won a 6 hole playoff by 2 strokes.
  8. ^ Nettlefold won a 6 hole playoff by 1 stroke.

Source:[60]

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