First Reliably Documented Golf in Australia

25th May 1839

Grose Farm 1839

Australia's First Golf Club?

15th December 1849

The Australian Golf Club - Mark I

The Challenge Is Issued

22nd December 1849

Competition in the Colonies.

Reports of Golf in Newspapers

10th October 1854

The Melbourne Golf Club . . . or is it Cricket?

The Sydney Challenge Match

24th November 1857

Captain Kirk Takes on Davie Robertson

Golf on the Victorian Goldfields

4th July 1860

All work and no play . . .

The First Open Championship is Held

17th October 1860

The Champions Golfer of the Year

Birth of Walter Travis

10th January 1862

Australia's First Major Winner?

Golf in Geelong

2nd December 1864

Introducing the old Scotch Game

Wanted - Golf Partners

30th March 1867

BYO Clubs

Golf and God

10th May 1870

The game they really play in heaven . . .

Golf Played on the Adelaide Racecourse

15th May 1870

Another Short-lived 'Club'

Birth of Peter Corsar Anderson

17th February 1871

A Developer of Golf in Australia

The First Professional Golfer in Australia?

28th January 1879

The Sad End of David Strath

Golf Equipment Available in Melbourne

20th August 1879

" . . . the only complete set of golf implements in the colony"

Birth of Carnegie Clark

27th July 1881

One of the fathers of Australian professional golf.

Birth of Dan Soutar

3rd December 1882

One of the fathers of Australian professional golf.

A Scots Sporting Club?

23rd February 1884

Healthy exercise for businessmen, and those past the cricket age . . .

Golf Takes Root in Sydney

24th June 1884

The Australian Golf Club - Mark II

Birth of Leonora Wray

2nd July 1886

The Mother of Australian Golf

Ratho is NOT Australia's Oldest Golf Course

28th July 1890

Ratho Golf Course

Melbourne Golf Club

22nd May 1891

The start of a tradition . . .

Australia's First Employed Club Professional Arrives

8th October 1891

Richard Taylor Engaged by the Melbourne Golf Club

Adelaide Golf Club

8th October 1892

Golf is First Played in Adelaide

Sydney Golf Club

2nd October 1893

First Competition . . .

Birth of Ivo Whitton

9th December 1893

Perhaps Australia's Greatest Ever Amateur

The First Inland Club in NSW

27th February 1895

Cootamundra Golf Club is Formed

Beautiful One Day, Double Bogies the Next

27th March 1895

Golf Club Formed in Queensland

Ballarat Golf Club Established

11th April 1895

Golf begins in the Central Highlands of Victoria.

Royal Melbourne Golf Club

21st May 1895

The Melbourne Golf Club receives Royal Assent.

The Australian Golf Club . . . Again

7th September 1895

The Australian Golf Club - Mark III

Golf Reaches Western Australia

5th October 1895

Perth Golf Club Plays Its First Game

First Professional in NSW

11th July 1896

James Scott of (Royal) Sydney

The Brisbane Golf Club is Formed

4th November 1896

Queensland's Capital Gets Its First Course

Birth of Joe Kirkwood

3rd April 1897

Australia's First Overseas Star

Early Interstate Rivalries

18th August 1897

A match of an intercolonial nature . .

Royal Sydney Golf Club

28th August 1897

The Sydney Golf Club receives Royal Assent.

The Australian Golf Union is Formed

11th November 1898

Australia's First National Golf Administration Body

Banjo Paterson Shares a Win in Royal Sydney Mixed Foursomes

17th June 1901

There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around ...

Moss Vale Golf Club Formed.

2nd July 1902

More Golf in the Southern Highlands

The Manly Golfers

6th May 1903

Golf on the Peninsula

1904 Australian Open

3rd September 1904

The first Australian Open is held.

1905 Australian Open

27th October 1905

Soutar Records His First Professional Victory

Australia's First Golf Book Published

27th September 1906

The Australian Golfer

1906 Australian Open

12th October 1906

Carnegie Clark Wins His First Australian Open

1907 Australian Open

28th September 1907

The Hon. Michael Scott Claims His Second Open

First Golf Balls Manufactured in Australia

9th January 1908

A new golf industry is established.

1908 Australian Open

11th July 1908

Tasmania's Clyde Pearce Dominates

1909 Australian Open

10th September 1909

A Southpaw Triumph

1910 Australian Open

13th August 1910

Carnegie Clark Wins His Second

Ratho is Still NOT Australia's Oldest Course

18th July 1911

Primary Evidence re the Course at Ratho Farm

1911 Australian Open

16th September 1911

Carnegie Clark Claims HIs Third

Professional Golfers Association of Australasia

19th September 1911

Australia's PGA is Formed

1912 Australian Open

14th September 1912

Ivo Whitton Opens His Account

1913 Australian Open Postponed

7th July 1913

Smallpox in Sydney

1913 Australian Open

30th August 1913

Ivo Whitton Successfully Defends His Title

Eric Cremin Born

15th June 1914

Winner of the 1949 Australian Open

First Australian Professional To Play in The Open

19th June 1914

Rowley Banks Leads the Way.

1914 Australian Open - Cancelled

8th August 1914

War efforts come first.

Jim Ferrier Born

24th February 1915

Australia's First Real Major Winner Makes His Debut

Australian Troops Land at Gallipoli

25th April 1915

Jack Clark Killed in Action

1st November 1916

The Australian PGA Loses One of its Founding Members

Clyde Pearce Killed on the Western Front

10th June 1917

1908 Australian Open Winner Killed in Action

Horace Henry Alfred Pickworth Born

17th January 1918

Four time Australian Open winner Ossie.

1920 Australian Open

17th July 1920

Joe Kirkwood Wins!

Kel Nagle Born

21st December 1920

Winner of the Centenary Open

Deep Groove Clubs Outlawed

1st July 1921

The R & A Acts

1921 Australian Open

17th September 1921

Arthur Le Fevre Wins

1922 Australian Open

16th September 1922

The Blue Mountains Parrot Prevails

A New Industry Is Established

9th June 1923

Iron Club Manufacture Comes to Australia

1923 Australian Open

17th August 1923

Newly Minted Professional Prevails

1924 Australian Open

5th September 1924

Amateur Alex Russell Annexes the Open

1925 Australian Open

23rd July 1925

Fred Popplewell Wins

Birth of Peter Thomson

23rd August 1929

Five Time Winner of The Open Makes his Debut

1930 Australian Open

14th September 1930

Frank Eyre is very happy!

USGA Approves New Ball

1st January 1931

A Larger and Lighter Ball

Spalding To Commence Making Golf Balls Locally

26th August 1931

New Line to Be Made in Sunshine

Dunlop To Commence Making Golf Balls Locally

31st March 1932

Plant to be built in Melbourne

Frank Phillips Born

24th July 1932

Two-time Australian Open Winner

Golf Ball Testing Machine

11th July 1935

Dunlop-Perdriau Demonstrate New Equipment

Helen's Dance

10th September 1936

1936 South Australian Centenary Open

1936 Australian Open

30th September 1936

Sarazen exacts his revenge.

1937 Australian Open

11th September 1937

George Naismith Breaks Through

Death of Dan Soutar

30th November 1937

One of the fathers of professional golf in Australia passes.

1938 Australian Open

20th August 1938

Australia's Best Amateur Triumphs

1939 Australian Open

26th August 1939

Ferrier Does It Again

Manufacture of Golf Balls in Australia Banned

14th April 1942

The War Effort Comes First

Australia's First Major Winner

24th June 1947

Jim Ferrier Triumphs in the U.S. PGA Championship

1954 Open Championship

9th July 1954

Thomson Opens His Account

Australian Captain at the Home of Golf

22nd September 1954

Lord Bruce Becomes Captain of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews

Birth of Greg Norman

10th February 1955

Australia's No. 1 Golfer of the 1980s.

1955 Open Championship

8th July 1955

Thomson Successfully Defends His Title

1956 Open Championship

6th July 1956

Thomson Records His Hat Trick

Big Sport Hits the Small Screen

6th November 1956

Golf Becomes the First Major Sport Televised in Australia

Birth of Wayne Grady

26th July 1957

Won the 1990 U.S. PGA Championship

1965 Open Championship

9th July 1965

Thomson Wins His Fifth

John Senden Born

20th April 1971

2006 Australian Open Winner

1974 Australian Open

3rd November 1974

Gary Player Records His Seventh Win

A Star is Born

21st December 1974

Karrie Webb - Australia's Greatest Female Player.

1986 Open Championship

20th July 1986

Greg Norman Wins His First Major

One Ball to Rule Them All . . .

1st January 1990

. . . And In the Deep Rough Bind Them.

Hickory Golfers Queensland

30th July 2020

Hickory Golfers Queensland established on this day.