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==Scorecard==
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Revision as of 15:49, 22 February 2017

Royal Adelaide Golf Club
Club information
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LocationTapleys Hill Road
Seaton, South Australia
Established1906, 119 years ago
1892  (club)
TypePrivate
Total holes18
Events hostedAustralian Open
Women's Australian Open
Websiteroyaladelaidegolf.com.au
Designed byH.L. Rymill, C.L. Gardner,
and Dr. Alister MacKenzie
Par72
Length6,557 m (7,171 yd)
Course rating74
Slope rating133
RAGC is located in South Australia
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Location in South Australia

The Royal Adelaide Golf Club (often referred to as Seaton) is a private golf club in Australia, located in South Australia at Seaton, an adjacent suburb northwest of Adelaide.

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.

Scorecard

Tee Par Distance Scratch Rating Slope Rating
Mens (Blue)  72 6557  74 133
Mens (White) 72 6121  72 129
Ladies (Red)  73 5516  75 136
Hole Metres Yards Par Hole Metres Yards Par
1 348 381 4    10 335 366 4
2 500 547 5 11 356 389 4
3 266 291 4 12 203 222 3
4 415 454 4 13 420 459 4
5 420 459 4 14 420 487 4
6 402 440 4 15 454 497 5
7 167 183 3 16 165 181 3
8 356 389 4 17 474 519 5
9 512 560 5 18 396 433 4
Out 3386 3704 37 In 3248 3553 36
Total 6634 7258 73

Club history

The first golf club in Adelaide was founded 155 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.[4] 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.[5]

Royal Adelaide Golf Club was founded in August 1892 on the North Parklands.[6] In 1906, the Golf Club was moved to land in Seaton,[6] 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.

Australian Open

Year Winner Nationality
1998 Greg Chalmers  Australia
1962 Gary Player  South Africa
1938 Jim Ferrier  Australia
1935 Fergus McMahon  Australia
1932 Mick Ryan  Australia
1929 Ivo Whitton  Australia
1926
1923 Tom Howard  Australia
1910 Carnegie Clark  Australia

Women's Australian Open

Year Winner Nationality
2017 15-18 February
1994 Annika Sörenstam  Sweden

2017 course layout

Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Out 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In Total
Metres 340 465 265 361 355 371 148 344 488 3,137 334 345 152 365 380 455 161 425 366 2,983 6,115
Yards 372 508 290 395 388 406 162 376 534 3,341 365 377 166 387 416 498 176 465 400 3,250 6,681
Par 4 5 4 4 4 4 3 4 5 37 4 4 3 4 4 5 3 5 4 36 73

Source:[7]

  • The course in 1994 was par 74 at 5,698 metres (6,231 yd).[3][8]

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. ^ a b "Australian Open". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. (Florida, USA). 12 December 1994. p. 2C.
  4. ^ "Golf". South Australian Register. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 17 May 1870. p. 5. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
  5. ^ "Fore !". The Mail. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 1 April 1933. p. 1 Section: Magazine Section. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
  6. ^ a b "History". The Royal Adelaide Golf Club. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  7. ^ "2017 ISPS Handa Australian Open Course Map" (PDF). Golf Australia. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  8. ^ "Golf results". Record-Journal. (Meriden, Connecticut, USA). 12 December 1994. p. 26.
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