South Australian PGA Championship
Tournament information | |
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Location | Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia |
Established | 1927 |
Course(s) | Blue Lake Golf Club |
Par | 67 |
Length | 5,993 yards (5,480 m) |
Tour(s) | PGA Tour of Australasia Von Nida Tour |
Format | Stroke play |
Prize fund | A$110,000 |
Month played | April |
Final year | 2008 |
Tournament record score | |
Aggregate | 248 (2008) |
To par | −20 (2002) −20 (2008) |
Score | 8 and 7 Rufus Stewart (1939) |
Final champion | |
Location Map | |
Blue Lake GC Location in Australia |
The South Australian PGA Championship was a professional golf tournament played in South Australia. It was first held in 1927.
History[]
The first South Australian Professional Championship was held in 1927 and was a 72-hole stroke-play event. It was won by Rufus Stewart, four ahead of Fergus McMahon. Stewart had recently won the Australian Open.[1] McMahon won in 1928, 1929 and 1930, and as a three-time winner he permanently kept the trophy that had been presented in 1927.[2] With only a small number of professional in the state, there were only four different winners in the first 15 championships. Stewart won 6 times and McMahon 5 times, while won twice, before he moved to Tasmania, and also won twice, in 1938 and 1940.[3][4] The format changed to match-play in 1937, all matches being over 36 holes. In 1937 and 1938 there were just 8 entries and a straight knock-out format was used.[5][6] However, there were 9 entries in 1939 and a 36-hole qualifying stage was used to reduce the field to 8.[7] In 1940 the qualifying stage was retained but just four players advanced to the match-play stage.[8] The 1941 event was reduced to a single day, with 36 holes of stroke-play.[9]
The championship resumed in 1946, using the 1940 format with four players qualifying, and this format was retained for a number of years.[10][11] From 1946 to 1950 only 16 players qualified for the Australian PGA Championship. Each state was allocated a specific number of places and organised their own qualifying event for those places. South Australia was allocated just one place. In 1946 there was a 36-hole qualifying event but from 1947 to 1950 the winner of the South Australian Professional Championship qualified.[12][13]
In 1952 there was a dispute between the two finalists, and . Crafter won the match at the 38th hole but at the 35th hole he had lifted and dropped his ball away from a staked tree. Thompson objected and the matter was not fully resolved until just before the 1953 event, confirming Crafter as the winner.[14][15][16]
Winners[]
Year | Tour[a] | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up | Venue | Ref. |
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OG Roberts South Australian PGA Championship | ||||||||
2008 | VNT | 248 | −20 | 2 strokes | Peter Senior Aaron Townsend |
Blue Lake | ||
Hahn South Australian PGA Championship | ||||||||
2007 | VNT | 266 | −14 | Playoff | Ashley Hall | Blue Lake | ||
South Australian PGA Championship | ||||||||
2006 | VNT | 279 | −9 | 1 stroke | Tanunda Pines | |||
SA PGA Championship | ||||||||
2005 | VNT | 273 | −15 | 1 stroke | The Grange | |||
Schweppes SA PGA Championship | ||||||||
2004 | VNT | The Grange | ||||||
2003 | VNT | 268 | −16 | 1 stroke | Scott Hend | The Vines | ||
2002 | ANZ | 264 | −20 | 5 strokes | The Vines | |||
2001 | DT | 282 | −10 | Playoff | Tea Tree Gully | [17][18] | ||
Schweppes South Australian PGA Championship | ||||||||
2000 | DT | 279 | −9 | 2 strokes | Glenelg | |||
South Australian PGA Championship | ||||||||
1998–1999: No information known | ||||||||
1997 | 205 | −11 | 2 strokes | McCracken | [19] | |||
1996 | Lyndsay Stephen | 278 | −10 | Playoff | Craig Spence | McCracken | [20] | |
1995 | 206 | −10 | Playoff | McCracken | [21] | |||
Lasseters SA and NT PGA Championship | ||||||||
1994 | FT | Stuart Appleby | 206 | −10 | 11 strokes | Aiice Springs | [22][23] | |
South Australian PGA Championship | ||||||||
1993 | 202 | 2 strokes | Mike Colandro | Wirrina Cove | [24] | |||
1990–1992: No information known | ||||||||
1989 | 142 | −2 | 1 stroke | Peter Lonard | Wirrina | [25] | ||
1978–1988: No information known | ||||||||
1977 | David Galloway | Flagstaff Hill | [26] | |||||
1976 | Bob Tuohy | 285 | −3 | 1 stroke | Frank Phillips | Flagstaff Hill | [27] | |
1975 | Vaughan Somers | 287 | 2 strokes | Frank Phillips |
[28] | |||
1974 | 288 | 1 stroke | [29] | |||||
1973 | ANZ | [30] | ||||||
1972: No information known | ||||||||
1971 | 9 strokes | Barry Coxon Bill Dunk Jerry Stolhand |
[31] | |||||
1970 | 290 | 3 strokes | |
Kooyonga | [32] | |||
1962–1969: No information known | ||||||||
1961 | 2 and 1 | [33] | ||||||
1960 | (7) | 6 and 5 | Royal Adelaide | [34] | ||||
1959: No information known | ||||||||
1958 | (6) | 3 and 2 | Royal Adelaide | [35] | ||||
1957 | (5) | |||||||
1956 | (4) | |||||||
1955 | (3) | |||||||
1954 | (3) | 1 up | Royal Adelaide | [36] | ||||
1953 | 2 up | Royal Adelaide | [37] | |||||
1952 | 38 holes | Kooyonga | [14] | |||||
1951 | (2) | 6 and 5 | Royal Adelaide | [38] | ||||
1950 | 5 and 4 | Kooyonga | [13] | |||||
1949 | (2) | 37 holes | Royal Adelaide | [39] | ||||
1948 | 2 up | Kooyonga | [40] | |||||
1947 | 6 and 5 | Royal Adelaide | [41] | |||||
1946 | 4 and 3 | Kooyonga | [42] | |||||
1942–1945: No tournament due to World War II | ||||||||
1941 | Rufus Stewart (6) | 159 | 4 strokes | Kooyonga | [43] | |||
1940 | (2) | 2 up | Fergus McMahon | Kooyonga | [4] | |||
1939 | Rufus Stewart (5) | 8 and 7 | Royal Adelaide | [44] | ||||
1938 | 5 and 3 | Kooyonga | [45] | |||||
1937 | Fergus McMahon (5) | 5 and 4 | Rufus Stewart | Royal Adelaide | [46] | |||
1936 | Rufus Stewart (4) | 301 | 4 strokes | Fergus McMahon | Royal Adelaide | [47] | ||
1935 | Rufus Stewart (3) | 294 | 4 strokes | Fergus McMahon | Royal Adelaide | [48] | ||
1934 | Fergus McMahon (4) | 297 | 14 strokes | Kooyonga | [49] | |||
1933 | (2) | 296 | 2 strokes | Fergus McMahon | Royal Adelaide | [3] | ||
1932 | 302 | 2 strokes | Rufus Stewart | Royal Adelaide | [50] | |||
1931 | Rufus Stewart (2) | 303 | 5 strokes | Royal Adelaide | [51] | |||
1930 | Fergus McMahon (3) | 307 | Playoff | Royal Adelaide | [2][52] | |||
1929 | Fergus McMahon (2) | 296 | 4 strokes | Rufus Stewart | Royal Adelaide | [53] | ||
1928 | Fergus McMahon | 297 | 4 strokes | Rufus Stewart | Royal Adelaide | [54] | ||
1927 | Rufus Stewart | 299 | 5 strokes | Fergus McMahon | Royal Adelaide | [1] |
- ^ ANZ − PGA Tour of Australasia; DT − Development Tour; VNT − Von Nida Tour.
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