Leslie Penfold Hyland

Herbert Leslie Penfold Hyland (4 March 1875 – 6 May 1940) was a director of Penfolds Wines and amateur sportsman, winning the South Australian amateur golf championship in 1905 and 1906.[1]

Personal life

He was born Herbert Leslie Hyland on 4 March 1875, the son of Thomas Francis Hyland and Mary Georgina Anne Penfold, the only child of Dr. Christopher Rawson Penfold, the founder of Penfolds.[2][3] He later adopted the name Penfold Hyland. He married Edith Mary Miller on 30 April 1900, which marriage ended in divorce in 1920.[4][5] He was born in Victoria but moved to South Australia in late 1904. He died on 6 May 1940 and was survived by two sons and a daughter.[2]

Golf

Hyland was an amateur golfer. In 1901 he was runner-up in the Victorian Amateur Championship, 19 strokes behind Walter Carre Riddell.[6] In July 1904 he won the Surrey Hills Gentlemen's Championship. Over 36 holes he was 4 down to bogey, 3 ahead of Michael Scott, who was 7 down.[7] In September, he was runner-up to Scott in the first Australian Open and the following month was again runner-up to Scott in the Victorian Amateur Championship.[8][9]

Soon after moving to South Australia, Hyland was runner-up to Tom Cheadle in the South Australian Amateur Championship in 1905, losing 10 & 9 in the 36-hole final.[10] In 1906 he won the South Australian Amateur Championship, beating Bill Gunson in the final.[11] The two met again in the 1907 final, with Hyland winning 6 & 5.[12]

References
  1. "SA Honour Rolls" (PDF). Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  2. "Death of Mr. Penfold Hyland". The Advertiser (Adelaide). South Australia. 7 May 1940. p. 16. Retrieved 20 November 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. "Penfold Director Dead". The Courier-mail (2083). Queensland, Australia. 7 May 1940. p. 16. Retrieved 20 November 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. "An Unhappy Marriage". The Advertiser (Adelaide). South Australia. 4 September 1920. p. 13. Retrieved 20 November 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. "In divorce". Northern Territory Times And Gazette. Northern Territory, Australia. 24 December 1921. p. 8. Retrieved 20 November 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. "Golf". The Leader (Melbourne) (2385). Victoria, Australia. 21 September 1901. p. 17. Retrieved 20 November 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. "Golf". The Argus (Melbourne) (18, 064). Victoria, Australia. 7 June 1904. p. 6. Retrieved 23 November 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. "Golf - Interstate Open Championship". The Argus (Melbourne) (18, 141). Victoria, Australia. 5 September 1904. p. 7. Retrieved 13 November 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. "Championship golf". The Age (15, 483). Victoria, Australia. 22 October 1904. p. 12. Retrieved 20 November 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. "Golf". The Leader (Melbourne). LXII (3, 339). South Australia. 30 September 1905. p. 19. Retrieved 20 November 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. "Golfing". The Chronicle (Adelaide). 49 (2, 502). South Australia. 4 August 1906. p. 24. Retrieved 20 November 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  12. "Golf". The Register (Adelaide). LXXII (18, 941). South Australia. 29 July 1907. p. 9. Retrieved 20 November 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
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