Australian Boys' Amateur

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The Australian Boys' Amateur is the nations premier junior golf championship for boys. It is run by Golf Australia. It is a 72-hole stroke-play event for players under the age of 18. Until 1993 the age limit was 21.[1]

Winners[edit]

Year Winner Score Margin
of victory
Runner(s)-up Venue(s) Ref.
2023 New Zealand Zachary Swanwick 274 4 strokes Australia Joseph Buttress Tasmania [2]
2022 Australia Jeffrey Guan 278 3 strokes Australia Joseph Buttress The Vines of Reynella [3]
2021 Australia Jeffrey Guan 280 1 stroke South Africa Aldrich Potgieter Gold Creek [4]
2020 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia Gold Creek [5]
2019 Australia Elvis Smylie 271 5 strokes New Zealand Kazuma Kobori Southport [6]
2018 Australia Connor Fewkes 275 2 strokes Australia Jordan Jung Gosnells [7]
2017 Australia Cameron John 269 1 stroke Australia Jordan Garner Wollongong [8]
2016 New Zealand Daniel Hillier 278 6 strokes Australia Matias Sanchez Ulverstone [9]
2015 Australia Ryan Ruffels 273 15 strokes Australia Jason Hong Kooyonga [10]
2014 Australia Ryan Ruffels 277 3 strokes Australia Blake Windred The Heritage Golf and Country Club [11]
2013 Australia Anthony Murdaca 272 3 strokes Australia Lucas Herbert Pinjarra [12]
2012 New Zealand Tyler Hodge 283 1 stroke Australia Viraat Badhwar Bribie Island [13]
2011 Australia Cameron Smith 279 8 strokes Australia Jake Higginbottom Carnarvon [14]
2010 Australia Anthony Murdaca 280 2 strokes Australia Jake Higginbottom Launceston [15]
2009 Australia Do Eun An 284 1 stroke Australia Andrius Belkus
Australia Anthony Houston
Alice Springs [16]
2008 Australia Daniel Nisbet 281 3 strokes Australia Aiden Bae Spring Valley [17]
2007 Australia Jason Scrivener 281 2 strokes Australia Danny An Cottesloe [18]
2006 Australia Boyd Watts 277 5 strokes Australia Kevin Lee Toowoomba [19]
2005 Australia Eagle Chang 284 Playoff Australia Jason Day Barwon Heads [20]
2004 Australia Jason Day 282 7 strokes New Zealand Jae An
Singapore Choo Tze-huang
Yowani [21]
2003 Australia Tom Davis 205[a] 6 strokes Australia David Lutterus Mowbray [22]
2002 Australia Garrard Weston 293 Playoff Australia Nick Flanagan Grange (East) [23]
2001 Australia Rick Kulacz 278 1 stroke Australia Steven Bowditch
New Zealand Eddie Lee
Melville Glades [24]
2000 Australia Mark Wuersching 289 1 stroke Australia Richard Moir Indooroopilly (East) [25]
1999 Australia Richard Moir 283 5 strokes Australia Anthony Brown Kew [26]
1998 Australia Adam Scott 287 4 strokes Australia Jonathan O'Sullivan Orange & Wentworth [27]
1997 Australia Adam Scott 279 1 stroke Australia Aaron Baddeley Alice Springs [28]
1996 Australia Simon Lacey 287 3 strokes Australia James McLean Riverside [29]
1995 Australia Nigel Spence 290 10 strokes Australia Dean Beste
Australia David Gleeson
Australia Joshua Madden
Grange (East) [30]
1994 Australia David Gleeson 292 Cottesloe
1993 Australia Tom Arnott 299 Royal Queensland
1992 New Zealand Saali Herewini 278 3 strokes Australia Stuart Appleby Cumberland [31]
1991 Australia Stuart Appleby 292 3 strokes Australia Marty Roberts Grange (East) [32]
1990 Australia Robert Allenby 288 Playoff New Zealand Grant Moorhead Keysborough [33]
1989 Australia Marty Roberts 286 1 stroke Australia Stuart Bouvier Launceston [34]
1988 Australia Peter Zidar 291 Playoff Australia Tony Mills Capel [35]
1987 Australia Stuart Bouvier 301 Playoff Australia Wayne Stewart Royal Queensland [36]
1986 Australia Peter O'Malley 280 8 strokes Australia Stephen Taylor New South Wales [37]
1985 Australia Brett Ogle 281 7 strokes Australia Stephen Taylor Glenelg [38]
1984 Australia Steve Jackson 305 Playoff New Zealand Paul Cadogan Victoria [39]
1983 New Zealand Grant Waite 297 Playoff Australia Craig Parry
Australia Jeff Wagner
Cottesloe [40]
1982 New Zealand Grant Waite 292 3 strokes New Zealand Greg Turner Royal Queensland [41]
  1. ^ Event reduced to 54 holes.

Source:[1]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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