The Queensland Open is a

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tournament held in

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as part of the

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. It was founded in 1925. The event was not held from 2008 to 2012 but returned as a

event in 2013.

Trophy

The winner receives the T. B. Hunter Cup. The trophy was donated by Thomas Brown Hunter in 1939, the winner to retain it for a year and receive a replica. The trophy was inscribed with the name of the previous winners. Hunter was secretary of

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from 1910 to 1938 and also secretary of the Queensland Golf Association. He won the Queensland Amateur Championship in 1913.

History

The first Queensland Open was held at

in June 1925, a 72-hole stroke play event held over two days. The inaugural event was won by

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, then still an amateur, by 7 strokes from

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. The Queensland Amateur had previously been held as a stroke play event but in 1925 the format was revised, with the Queensland Open acting as qualifying for the match-play amateur event. Sinclair went on to win the amateur championship the following week. The event has not always been part of the

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's calendar. For example, in 1988 it was not a tour event. Since the 1990s, it has intermittently been an official

event though also part of the Australian Tour's satellite tours, the Foundation Tour and the

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Winners

Source:

Multiple winners

Eleven players have won this tournament more than once through 2020. *7 wins **

Norman Von Nida Norman Guy Von Nida (14 February 1914 – 20 May 2007) was an Australian professional golfer. Von Nida was born in Strathfield and grew up in Brisbane. He turned professional in 1933, after attracting attention by winning the 1932 Queensland ...

: 1935, 1936, 1937, 1940, 1949, 1953, 1961 *5 wins **

Eric Cremin Eric James Cremin (15 June 1914 – 29 December 1973) was an Australian professional golfer who, later in his career, was instrumental in the establishment of the Far East Circuit, later known as the Asia Golf Circuit. Cremin was born in Mascot ...

: 1946, 1948, 1950, 1956, 1957 *4 wins **

Bill Dunk William Edgar Dunk (born 10 December 1938)Billy Dunk
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: 1972, 1973, 1974, 1980 *3 wins **

Jim Ferrier James Bennett Elliott Ferrier (24 February 1915 – 13 June 1986) was an Australian professional golfer from Manly, New South Wales. After compiling a fine record as an amateur golfer in Australia during the 1930s, he moved to the United States ...

: 1934, 1938, 1939 *2 wins **

: 1925, 1931 **

Ossie Pickworth Horace Henry Alfred "Ossie" Pickworth (17 January 1918 – 23 September 1969) was a leading Australian professional golfer of the 1940s and 1950s, winner of three successive Australian Open titles from 1946 to 1948, the last of which came in ...

: 1951, 1952 **

Kel Nagle Kelvin David George Nagle AM (21 December 1920 – 29 January 2015) was an Australian professional golfer best known for winning The Open Championship in 1960. He won at least one tournament each year from 1949 to 1975. Biography Nagle was bor ...

: 1959, 1964 **

Greg Norman Gregory John Norman AO (born 10 February 1955) is an Australian entrepreneur and retired professional golfer who spent 331 weeks as world number one in the 1980s and 1990s. He won 89 professional tournaments, including 20 PGA Tour tournament ...

: 1983, 1986 ** David Graham: 1985, 1987 ** Jeff Senior: 1979, 1992 ** Terry Price: 1993, 1995

Notes

References

External links

Coverage on Golf Australia official site
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