Tasmanian Open

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

• 2020 Hayden Hopewell (a)
• 2019 Aiden Didone (a)
• 2018 No tournament
• 2017 Lee Chang-gi (a)
• 2016 Simon Hawkes
• 2015 Anthony Quayle (a)
• 2014 Jarryd Felton (a)
• 2013 Jordan Zunic (a)
• 2012 Ricky Kato (a)
• 2011 Matt Stieger (a)
• 2010 Jin Jeong (a)
• 2009 Ryan McCarthy (a)
• 2008 Tim Stewart (a)
• 2007 Rohan Blizard (a)
• 2006 Ben Parker (a)
• 2005 Ashley Hall (a)
• 2004 Kevin Chun (a)
• 2003 Nick Flanagan (a)
• 2002 Adam Groom (a)
• 2001 Richard Swift (a)
• 2000 Andrew Webster (a)
• 1999 Brendan Jones (a)
• 1998 Geoff Ogilvy (a)
• 1997 Cameron Percy (2) (a)
• 1996 Cameron Percy (a)
• 1995 Lee Eagleton (a)
• 1994 Mathew Goggin (a)
• 1993 David Bransdon (a)

Year	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Venue	Ref
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]
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		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 (8) (a)
1958	Peter Toogood (7) (a)
1957	Peter Toogood (6) (a)
1956	Peter Toogood (5) (a)
1955	Peter Toogood (4) (a)
1954	Peter Toogood (3) (a)	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 (2) (a)	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 (8) (a)	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
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 (7) (a)	144		1 stroke	Alf Toogood	Launceston	[51]
1936	Len Nettlefold (6) (a)	132		9 strokes	C. G. Thynne (a)	Royal Hobart	[52]
1935	Len Nettlefold (5) (a)	147		4 strokes	Bill Robertson	Launceston	[53]
1934	Len Nettlefold (4) (a)	145		2 strokes	Jock Robertson	Kingston Beach	[54]
1933	R. T. Brown (a)	152		1 stroke	Ellis Davies (a) J. Melrose (a)	Launceston	[55]
1932	Len Nettlefold (3) (a)	142		3 strokes	Eustace Headlam	Royal Hobart	[56]
1931	Len Nettlefold (2) (a)	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 (2) (a)	152		3 strokes	Henry Allport (a)	Launceston	[3]
1914–1918: No tournament
1913	Eustace Headlam (a)	152		7 strokes	C. H. 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.

Additional source:[60]

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