Kooyonga Golf Club is a private

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...

club in Australia, located in

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at Lockleys, a suburb west of

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. Members entry is off May Terrace, Brooklyn Park. Work on the course started in 1922 and the first nine holes opened on 19 May 1923. In August, the course hosted a country championship, for players from outside Adelaide, won by Mr. Haehrmann from Ambleside. The same month the Australian Open was played at Royal Adelaide and the opportunity was taken to organise a 36-hole professional event at the club, on the day after the open. Arthur Ham won the event with a score of 161, a stroke ahead of Arthur Le Fevre. the course was extended to 18 holes in 1924. The Simpson Cup was originally for competition between The Kooyonga Golf Club & The Royal Adelaide Golf Club from 1927 to 1938. Post World War 2 the Grange & Glenelg Golf Clubs joined the annual competition and in 2008 Southern District and Mid-North District entered teams also. As at 2022 Kooyonga has won 33 Simpson Cups and Royal Adelaide has won 10 Kooyonga has hosted six Australian Opens (five men's and one women's), twenty South Australian Opens and two Australian Amateur Championships. The world's greatest golfers (including

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and the "Big Three" Palmer, Nicklaus and Player) have all played at Kooyonga over its long and rich history. * Golf icon

played the Kooyonga Golf Course in the 1930s. Sensationally, the Kooyonga Golf Club Secretary of the time was arrested and remanded for embezzling 131 pounds that was to be paid to Walter Hagen and J Kirkwood. However a few years later when asked about Australian Golf Courses, Hagen mentioned Kooyonga as the one he rated extremely highly, describing the course as a "hard test". *In 1950

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winner

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won the Australian Open at Kooyonga *In 1961 American Golf Great, The King

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defeated

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by 4 strokes at Kooyonga *The Black Knight

has won two Australian Opens there and in 1965, the Golden Bear, Jack Nicklaus was runner up to Player in the Australian Open at Kooyonga. *Five times

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winner, and

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winning Captain,

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won the Australian Open at Kooyonga in 1972. *

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CEO, the Great White Shark,

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has played at Kooyonga on a number of occasions, winning the South Australian Open there twice

regarded winning the 1996 South Australian Open at Kooyonga as particularly important for him *In 2018 the world number 1 female golfer,

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won the Women's Australian Open at Kooyonga The

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was scheduled to return to Kooyonga in February 2022, however Covid travel restrictions have caused that event to be cancelled for the year. The golf course also has a history of high profile members, including Sir Donald Bradman, Australian Test Cricket player and media personality

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, Tennis legend

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, Cricket legend

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and State Footballer Andrew Payze among other captains of South Australian and Australian Industry Kooyonga Golf Course, albeit exclusive is noted as a significant attraction for interstate and international visitors by the South Australian Government Tourism Commission In 2022 the Golf Australia Magazine ranked the top 100 Golf Courses in Australia, and Kooyonga was elevated to the number 21 position on that list. Kooyonga Green

Tournaments hosted

*2021 Australian Amateur *2018

*2007 South Australian Open *1996-2004 South Australian Open *1982-86 South Australian Open *1980 South Australian Open *1976 South Australian Open *1972 Australian Open *1971 South Australian Open *1966 Adelaide Advertiser Tournament *1965 South Australian Open *1964 Adelaide Advertiser Tournament *1965 Australian Open *1962 Adelaide Advertiser Tournament *1962 Australian Amateur *1961 South Australian Open *1960 Adelaide Advertiser Tournament *1958 Adelaide Advertiser Tournament *1958

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*1958 Australian Open *1956 Adelaide Advertiser Tournament *1954 Australian Open *1951 Adelaide Advertiser Tournament *1950 Australian Open *1949 Adelaide Advertiser Tournament

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