Jacob's Creek Open Championship
Encyclopedia
The Jacob's Creek Open Championship was a golf
tournament on the PGA Tour of Australasia
, and was co-sanctioned by the United States based Nationwide Tour
from 2002. It was played annually in Adelaide
, South Australia
. In 2007, the last time the tournament was held, it was one of three tournaments on the Nationwide Tour held outside the United States
.
The tournament was founded in 1960 as the South Australian Open, and enjoyed several different sponsors before the Jacob's Creek wine brand took over in 2002. After Jacob's Creek withdrew their support following the 2007 edition, the search for a new sponsor proved fruitless and the tournament was cancelled.
(am) – Amateur
* – Played over 54 holes (3 rounds) in 1969 and 1993
Prior to 1968 the championship was contested over 36 holes (2 rounds)
Golf
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tournament on the PGA Tour of Australasia
PGA Tour of Australasia
The PGA Tour of Australasia is a professional golf tour for men. Official events on the tour count for World Golf Ranking points. The tour was formed in 1973 as the PGA Tour of Australia and adopted its current name in 1991....
, and was co-sanctioned by the United States based Nationwide Tour
Nationwide Tour
The Nationwide Tour is the developmental tour for the U.S.-based PGA Tour, and features professional golfers who have either failed to score well enough at that level's Qualifying School to earn their PGA Tour card, or who have done so but then failed to win enough money to stay at that level...
from 2002. It was played annually in Adelaide
Adelaide
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, South Australia
South Australia
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. In 2007, the last time the tournament was held, it was one of three tournaments on the Nationwide Tour held outside the United States
United States
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.
The tournament was founded in 1960 as the South Australian Open, and enjoyed several different sponsors before the Jacob's Creek wine brand took over in 2002. After Jacob's Creek withdrew their support following the 2007 edition, the search for a new sponsor proved fruitless and the tournament was cancelled.
Winners
| Year | Venue | Winner | Country | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacob's Creek Open Championship | ||||
| 2007 | Kooyonga Golf Club | Scott Sterling | 276 (−12) | |
| 2006 | Royal Adelaide Golf Club Royal Adelaide Golf Club The Royal Adelaide Golf Club is a private golf club in Adelaide, South Australia. It is widely acknowledged as ranking with the best in Australia, and has a world ranking that fluctuates around 50.... |
Paul Sheehan | 277 (−11) | |
| 2005 | Royal Adelaide Golf Club Royal Adelaide Golf Club The Royal Adelaide Golf Club is a private golf club in Adelaide, South Australia. It is widely acknowledged as ranking with the best in Australia, and has a world ranking that fluctuates around 50.... |
Steven Bowditch Steven Bowditch Steven Bowditch is an Australian professional golfer who currently plays on the Nationwide Tour and the PGA Tour of Australasia.... |
277 (−11) | |
| 2004 | Kooyonga Golf Club | Euan Walters | 275 (−9) | |
| 2003 | Kooyonga Golf Club | Joe Ogilvie Joe Ogilvie Norman Joseph Ogilvie is an American professional golfer.Ogilvie was born in Lancaster, Ohio and graduated from Duke University. He currently plays on the PGA Tour and picked up his first win on tour at the U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee in 2007... |
279 (−5) | |
| 2002 | Kooyonga Golf Club | Gavin Coles Gavin Coles Gavin Coles is an Australian professional golfer.Coles is currently a member of the Nationwide Tour. He was a member of the Nationwide Tour in 2002, 2004 and 2006 and the PGA Tour in 2003, 2005 and 2007.-Nationwide Tour wins :... |
279 (−9) | |
| Ford Open Championship | ||||
| 2001 | No tournament due to scheduling changes | |||
| 2000 | Kooyonga Golf Club | Peter Lonard Peter Lonard Peter Lawrence Lonard is an Australian professional golfer who plays mainly on the U.S. based PGA Tour. He credits fellow Australian Greg Norman as his inspiration.... |
269 (−19) | |
| 1999 | Kooyonga Golf Club | Craig Parry Craig Parry Craig David Parry is an Australian professional golfer. He has been one of Australia's premier golfers since turning professional in 1985, and has 23 career victories, two of those wins being events on the PGA Tour; the 2002 WGC-NEC Invitational and the 2004 Ford Championship at Doral.Parry was... |
274 (−14) | |
| 1998 | Kooyonga Golf Club | Stuart Bouvier | 282 (−6) | |
| 1997 | Kooyonga Golf Club | Steven Alker Steven Alker Steven Craig Alker is a professional golfer from New Zealand.Alker was born in Hamilton, New Zealand. He turned professional in 1995.... |
273 (−15) | |
| 1996 | Kooyonga Golf Club | Greg Norman Greg Norman Gregory John Norman AO is an Australian professional golfer and entrepreneur who spent 331 weeks as the world's Number 1 ranked golfer in the 1980s and 1990s... |
284 (−4) | |
| 1995 | Royal Adelaide Golf Club Royal Adelaide Golf Club The Royal Adelaide Golf Club is a private golf club in Adelaide, South Australia. It is widely acknowledged as ranking with the best in Australia, and has a world ranking that fluctuates around 50.... |
Tim Elliot | 275 (−17) | |
| Eagle Blue Open | ||||
| 1994 | No tournament due to scheduling changes | |||
| 1993 | Royal Adelaide Golf Club Royal Adelaide Golf Club The Royal Adelaide Golf Club is a private golf club in Adelaide, South Australia. It is widely acknowledged as ranking with the best in Australia, and has a world ranking that fluctuates around 50.... |
Wayne Smith | 210* (−9) | |
| 1992 | Royal Adelaide Golf Club Royal Adelaide Golf Club The Royal Adelaide Golf Club is a private golf club in Adelaide, South Australia. It is widely acknowledged as ranking with the best in Australia, and has a world ranking that fluctuates around 50.... |
Brett Ogle Brett Ogle Brett Ogle is an Australian professional golfer.Ogle was born in Sydney, New South Wales, where he still resides. He turned professional in 1985, joining the PGA Tour of Australasia the following year... |
280 (−12) | |
| West End Open | ||||
| 1991 | Royal Adelaide Golf Club Royal Adelaide Golf Club The Royal Adelaide Golf Club is a private golf club in Adelaide, South Australia. It is widely acknowledged as ranking with the best in Australia, and has a world ranking that fluctuates around 50.... |
Brett Ogle Brett Ogle Brett Ogle is an Australian professional golfer.Ogle was born in Sydney, New South Wales, where he still resides. He turned professional in 1985, joining the PGA Tour of Australasia the following year... |
279 (−13) | |
| 1990 | Royal Adelaide Golf Club Royal Adelaide Golf Club The Royal Adelaide Golf Club is a private golf club in Adelaide, South Australia. It is widely acknowledged as ranking with the best in Australia, and has a world ranking that fluctuates around 50.... |
Mike Harwood Mike Harwood Michael Geoffrey Harwood is an Australian golfer.Harwood was born in Sydney. He turned professional in 1979 and has extensive experience on the PGA Tour of Australasia and the European Tour. He won five times in Europe, including a 1990 victory in tour's home tournament at Wentworth, which was... |
278 (−14) | |
| 1989 | Royal Adelaide Golf Club Royal Adelaide Golf Club The Royal Adelaide Golf Club is a private golf club in Adelaide, South Australia. It is widely acknowledged as ranking with the best in Australia, and has a world ranking that fluctuates around 50.... |
Nick Price Nick Price Nicholas Raymond Leige Price is a South African-Zimbabwean Professional golfer and an inductee in the World Golf Hall of Fame. In the mid-1990s, Price reached number one in the Official World Golf Rankings.-Background:... |
277 (−15) | |
| 1988 | The Grange Golf Club | Gordon Brand, Jnr Gordon Brand, Jnr Gordon Brand, Jnr is a Scottish professional golfer who plays on the European Tour.Brand was born in Kirkcaldy. He turned professional in 1981 and quickly achieved success. He won that year's European Tour Qualifying School, and went on to win two European Tour events in his rookie season... |
267 (−13) | |
| 1987 | The Grange Golf Club | Ronan Rafferty Ronan Rafferty Ronan P. Rafferty is an Northern Irish professional golfer, who formerly played on the European Tour.Rafferty was born in Newry, Northern Ireland. He won the Boys Amateur Championship aged fifteen and played in the Walker Cup aged seventeen... |
280 (−8) | |
| 1986 | Kooyonga Golf Club | Greg Norman Greg Norman Gregory John Norman AO is an Australian professional golfer and entrepreneur who spent 331 weeks as the world's Number 1 ranked golfer in the 1980s and 1990s... |
284 (−4) | |
| Ford Dealers South Australian Open | ||||
| 1985 | Kooyonga Golf Club | Vaughan Somers Vaughan Somers Vaughan Somers is an Australian professional golfer.Somers was born in Queensland, Australia, the son of bookmaker Alan Somers.Somers' had modest success as a professional golfer, but did win the 1985 Ford Dealers South Australian Open... |
284 (−4) | |
| 1984 | Kooyonga Golf Club | Bob Shearer Bob Shearer Robert A. Shearer is an Australian professional golfer and golf course architect.Shearer was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He won the 1969 Australian Amateur and turned pro in 1970.... |
286 (−2) | |
| 1983 | Kooyonga Golf Club | Terry Gale Terry Gale Terry R. Gale is an Australian professional golfer.Gale had a successful amateur career before turning professional at a relatively advanced age in 1976. From the mid 1970s to the early 1990s he won regularly on the PGA Tour of Australasia, the Japan Golf Tour and the pre-Asian Tour Asian circuit... |
281 (−7) | |
| 1982 | Kooyonga Golf Club | Graham Marsh Graham Marsh Graham Vivian Marsh MBE was one of the leading Australian professional golfers of his generation.-Career outline:Marsh was born in Kalgoorlie, Australia... |
275 (−13) | |
| South Australian Open | ||||
| 1981 | Glenelg Golf Club | Lyndsay Stephen | 282 (−6) | |
| 1980 | Kooyonga Golf Club | Simon Owen Simon Owen Simon Owen is a professional golfer from New Zealand.Owen was born in Wanganui. He turned professional in 1971 and has won several tournaments in Australasia. He played on the European Tour from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s, winning the 1974 German Open and the 1976 Double Diamond Individual... |
291 (+3) | |
| 1979 | Glenelg Golf Club | Peter Senior Peter Senior Peter Albert Charles Senior is an Australian professional golfer who has won more than twenty tournaments around the world.... |
282 (−6) | |
| 1978 | Glenelg Golf Club | Tony Gresham (am) | 282 (−6) | |
| 1977 | Royal Adelaide Golf Club Royal Adelaide Golf Club The Royal Adelaide Golf Club is a private golf club in Adelaide, South Australia. It is widely acknowledged as ranking with the best in Australia, and has a world ranking that fluctuates around 50.... |
Noel Ratcliffe Noel Ratcliffe Noel Anthony Ratcliffe is an Australian professional golfer.Ratcliffe turned to golf exceptionally late for a future professional, and didn't own a set of clubs until he was twenty-one. He studied pharmacy and worked for an insurance company and in public service before turning professional in 1974... |
287 (−5) | |
| 1976 | Kooyonga Golf Club | David Galloway | 285 (−3) | |
| 1975 | No tournament | |||
| 1974 | Glenelg Golf Club | R. Hore | 288 (E) | |
| 1973 | The Grange Golf Club | Ted Ball Ted Ball Edward "Ted" Ball is an Australian professional golfer. He has had a huge amount of success playing in Australia, winning 11 times on the PGA Tour of Australasia, and winning over 50 tournaments in his career.... |
286 (−2) | |
| 1972 | The Grange Golf Club | Ted Ball Ted Ball Edward "Ted" Ball is an Australian professional golfer. He has had a huge amount of success playing in Australia, winning 11 times on the PGA Tour of Australasia, and winning over 50 tournaments in his career.... |
294 (+6) | |
| 1971 | Kooyonga Golf Club | Guy Wolstenholme Guy Wolstenholme Guy Bertram Wolstenholme was an English professional golfer. He had a successful career both as an amateur and then as a professional.Wolstenholme was born in Leicester, and is the father of Gary Wolstenholme.... |
288 (E) | |
| 1970 | Glenelg Golf Club | Bill Dunk Bill Dunk William Edgar Dunk is an Australian professional golfer.Dunk is renowned as one of the greatest shot makers in Australian golf. He was inducted as a life member of the Australasian Tour in 1996. Dunk won five Australian PGA Championships and the New Zealand Open... |
275 (−13) | |
| 1969 | The Grange Golf Club | B. Boys | 222* (+6) | |
| 1968 | Royal Adelaide Golf Club Royal Adelaide Golf Club The Royal Adelaide Golf Club is a private golf club in Adelaide, South Australia. It is widely acknowledged as ranking with the best in Australia, and has a world ranking that fluctuates around 50.... |
Peter Thomson | 293 (+1) | |
| 1967 | Glenelg Golf Club | J. Sullivan | 144 (E) | |
| 1966 | The Grange Golf Club | Brian Crafter | 141 (−3) | |
| 1965 | Kooyonga Golf Club | Murray Crafter | 144 (E) | |
| 1964 | Royal Adelaide Golf Club Royal Adelaide Golf Club The Royal Adelaide Golf Club is a private golf club in Adelaide, South Australia. It is widely acknowledged as ranking with the best in Australia, and has a world ranking that fluctuates around 50.... |
Rob Mesnil (am) | 145 (−1) | |
| 1963 | Glenelg Golf Club | Murray Crafter | 148 (+4) | |
| 1962 | The Grange Golf Club | Murray Crafter | 143 (−1) | |
| 1961 | Kooyonga Golf Club | H. Threadgold (am) | 148 (+4) | |
| 1960 | Royal Adelaide Golf Club Royal Adelaide Golf Club The Royal Adelaide Golf Club is a private golf club in Adelaide, South Australia. It is widely acknowledged as ranking with the best in Australia, and has a world ranking that fluctuates around 50.... |
W. Shephard (am) | 141 (−5) | |
(am) – Amateur
Prior to 1968 the championship was contested over 36 holes (2 rounds)