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Feb, 2025

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History | Vic Open

The Vic Open is one of the leading Australian golf events where men and women play on the same courses, at the same time, for equal prize money.

The Men's Vic Open has been the pinnacle event in Victorian men's golf since being first played at Riversdale in 1957 with the inaugural title won by Australian golfing legend, Ossie Pickworth. The prize money was £250 but only one competitor, amateur Harry Hattersley, was from outside the state.

The Women's Vic Open was first played in 1988 but experienced a 20-year hiatus after the 1992 event. It was reintroduced in 2012 to provide an equivalent elite event for Victorian women's golf; stimulate participation / promotion of the game to the entire Victorian community and highlight Golf Victoria’s role as the peak body for men’s and women’s golf in the State.

2024: Brett Coletta (VIC) & Ashely Lau (MAL) | 13th Beach Golf Links 2023: Michael Hendry (NZL) & Jiyai Shin (KOR) | 13th Beach Golf Links 2022: Dimitrios Papadatos (NSW) & Hannah Green (WA) | 13th Beach Golf Links 2021: Not played 2020: Min Woo Lee (WA) & Hee Young Park (KOR) | 13th Beach Golf Links 2019: David Law (SCO) & Celine Boutier (FRA) | 13th Beach Golf Links 2018: Simon Hawkes (TAS) & Minjee Lee (WA) | 13th Beach Golf Links 2017: Dimitrios Papadatos (NSW) & Melissa Reid (ENG) | 13th Beach Golf Links 2016: Michael Long (NZ) & Georgia Hall (ENG) | 13th Beach Golf Links 2015: Richard Green (VIC) & Marianne Skarpnord (NOR) | 13th Beach Golf Links 2014: Matthew Griffin (VIC) & Minjee Lee (a) (WA) | 13th Beach Golf Links 2013: Matthew Giles (NSW) & Stacey Keating (VIC) | 13th Beach Golf Links

Click here for full men’s honour roll & scores. Click here for full women’s honour roll & scores.

Multiple winners - Men

  • 4 wins

    • Guy Wolstenholme: 1971, 1976, 1978, 1980

  • 3 wins

    • Peter Thomson: 1958, 1968, 1973

  • 2 wins

    • Alan Murray: 1961, 1965

    • Bruce Devlin: 1962, 1963

    • Frank Phillips: 1964, 1966

    • Kel Nagle: 1967, 1969

    • Michael Clayton: 1982, 1989

    • Peter Thomson: 1968, 1973

    • Stephen Leaney: 1995, 1997

    • Dimitrios Papadatos: 2017, 2022

Multiple winners - Women

  • 2 wins

    • Minjee Lee: 1994 (amateur), 2018

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