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Royal Adelaide Golf Club

The Royal Adelaide Golf Club (often referred to as Seaton) is a private Australian golf club located in the Adelaide suburb of Seaton, 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) northwest of the city centre.

The links at Seaton has been the venue for many international and interstate matches and championships. Royal Adelaide has hosted the Australian Open nine times,[1] most recently in 1998 when Greg Chalmers took home the trophy, carding an even-par 288.[2] The Women's Australian Open was first played at the course in December 1994, won by Annika Sörenstam,[3] and returned in February 2017 where it was won by Jang Ha-na. It has also hosted the Australian Amateur 19 times, the South Australian Open 13 times, and the Adelaide Advertiser Tournament 10 times.

The course record was originally established by American Marty Bohen in 1977. Bohen shot a 63 (−10) during the final round of the 1977 South Australian Open.[4]

Scorecard

Club history

The first golf club in Adelaide was founded 154 years ago in 1870 by David Murray MP, John Lindsay MP, John Gordon, J. T. Turnbull, George and Joseph Boothby and around 15 others. The Governor, Sir James Fergusson was club patron. An inaugural game of 14 holes (7 holes played twice) was played on the Adelaide Racecourse (later renamed Victoria Racecourse) on 15 May 1870, when Lindsay and John Gordon tied for first place.[5] A nine-hole course was laid out and a greenkeeper appointed, but when Fergusson was recalled in 1873, membership in the Adelaide Golf Club declined and folded around 1876.[6]

Royal Adelaide Golf Club was founded in August 1892 on the North Parklands.[7] In 1906, the Golf Club was moved to land in Seaton,[7] a northwest suburb of Adelaide. The western boundary along Frederick Road is approximately a mile (1.6 km) east of the shore of Gulf St Vincent.

Tournaments hosted

Australian Open

Women's Australian Open

Other tournaments

See also

References

  1. ^ "Australian Open – Past Winners". Golf Australia. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  2. ^ "1998 Holden Australian Open" (PDF). Golf Australia. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  3. ^ "Australian Open". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. (Florida, USA). 12 December 1994. p. 2C.
  4. ^ "Ratcliffe takes SA Open golf". The Canberra Times. 7 February 1977. p. 14. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  5. ^ "Golf". South Australian Register. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 17 May 1870. p. 5. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
  6. ^ "Fore !". The Mail. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 1 April 1933. p. 1 Section: Magazine Section. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
  7. ^ a b "History". The Royal Adelaide Golf Club. Retrieved 16 September 2014.

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