The Australian PGA Championship, formerly known as the Cadbury Schweppes Australian PGA Championship, is a golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

 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....

. It is the home tournament of the Australian PGA and dates back to 1905. The winner receives the Joe Kirkwood Cup, named after Australian golfer Joe Kirkwood, Sr.

Joe Kirkwood, Sr.

Joseph Henry Kirkwood, Sr. was a professional golfer who is acknowledged as having put Australian golf on the world map....

The tournament has been played at the Hyatt Regency Coolum in Queensland

Queensland

Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

 since 2002.

Winners

• 2011 Greg Chalmers
  Greg Chalmers
  Greg J. Chalmers is an Australian professional golfer who has played on both the European Tour and currently the PGA Tour.Chalmers was born in Sydney...
  
  
• 2010 Peter Senior
  Peter Senior
  Peter Albert Charles Senior is an Australian professional golfer who has won more than twenty tournaments around the world....
  
  
• 2009 Robert Allenby
  Robert Allenby
  Robert Allenby is an Australian professional golfer.Allenby was born in Melbourne, Australia. His father was from Leeds, England and emigrated to Australia as a young man.-Professional career:...
  
  
• 2008 Geoff Ogilvy
  Geoff Ogilvy
  Geoff Charles Ogilvy is an Australian professional golfer. He won the 2006 U.S. Open and has also won three World Golf Championships.-Professional career:...
  
  
• 2007 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....
  
  
• 2006 Nick O'Hern
  Nick O'Hern
  Nicholas Simon O'Hern is an Australian professional golfer.O'Hern has played on both of the world's premier professional golf tours, the European Tour, and the United States based PGA Tour...
  
  
• 2005 Robert Allenby
  Robert Allenby
  Robert Allenby is an Australian professional golfer.Allenby was born in Melbourne, Australia. His father was from Leeds, England and emigrated to Australia as a young man.-Professional career:...
  
  
• 2004 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....
  
  
• 2003 Peter Senior
  Peter Senior
  Peter Albert Charles Senior is an Australian professional golfer who has won more than twenty tournaments around the world....
  
  
• 2002 Jarrod Moseley
  Jarrod Moseley
  Jarrod James Moseley is an Australian professional golfer.Moseley was born in Mandurah, Western Australia. He turned professional in 1997. He won the PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit in 1998/99, having won the European Tour co-sanctioned Heineken Classic during the season...
  
   and 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....
  
   (tied)
• 2001 Robert Allenby
  Robert Allenby
  Robert Allenby is an Australian professional golfer.Allenby was born in Melbourne, Australia. His father was from Leeds, England and emigrated to Australia as a young man.-Professional career:...
  
  
• 2000 Robert Allenby
  Robert Allenby
  Robert Allenby is an Australian professional golfer.Allenby was born in Melbourne, Australia. His father was from Leeds, England and emigrated to Australia as a young man.-Professional career:...
  
  
• 1999 Greg Turner
  Greg Turner
  Greg Turner is a New Zealand professional golfer.Turner was born in Dunedin. He attended Oklahoma University in the United States but has spent most of his career on the PGA Tour of Australasia and the European Tour. He won four tournaments on the European Tour and achieved a career best ranking...
  
  
• 1998 David Howell
  David Howell (golfer)
  David Alexander Howell is an English professional golfer from Swindon. His career to date peaked in 2006, when he was ranked in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings for a short time....
  
  
• 1997 Andrew Coltart
  Andrew Coltart
  Andrew John Coltart is a Scottish professional golfer.-Junior and amateur:Coltart was born in Dumfries. As an amateur, he won the 1987 Scottish Boys Championship and the 1991 Scottish Amateur Stroke Play Championship, and participated in the 1991 Walker Cup.-Professional:Coltart turned...
  
  
• 1996 Phil Tataurangi
  Phil Tataurangi
  Phillip Mikaera Tataurangi is a New Zealand golfer.Tataurangi was born in Auckland. In 1992 he was a member of the New Zealand's winning Eisenhower Trophy team and was the leading individual player in the tournament. He turned professional in 1993 and has played mainly in the United States as a pro...
  
  
• 1995 no tournament
• 1994 Andrew Coltart
  Andrew Coltart
  Andrew John Coltart is a Scottish professional golfer.-Junior and amateur:Coltart was born in Dumfries. As an amateur, he won the 1987 Scottish Boys Championship and the 1991 Scottish Amateur Stroke Play Championship, and participated in the 1991 Walker Cup.-Professional:Coltart turned...
  
  
• 1993 Ian Baker-Finch
  Ian Baker-Finch
  Ian Michael Baker-Finch is an Australian professional golfer, who is best known for winning The Open Championship in 1991.-Early years:...
  
  
• 1992 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...
  
  
• 1991 Wayne Grady
  Wayne Grady
  Wayne Desmond Grady is an Australian professional golfer.Grady was born in Brisbane. He turned professional in 1978. He is best known for winning the PGA Championship, one of golf's four majors, in 1990. He was also runner up at The Open Championship in 1989, losing in a playoff against Greg...
  
  
• 1990 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...
  
  
• 1989 Peter Senior
  Peter Senior
  Peter Albert Charles Senior is an Australian professional golfer who has won more than twenty tournaments around the world....
  
  
• 1988 Wayne Grady
  Wayne Grady
  Wayne Desmond Grady is an Australian professional golfer.Grady was born in Brisbane. He turned professional in 1978. He is best known for winning the PGA Championship, one of golf's four majors, in 1990. He was also runner up at The Open Championship in 1989, losing in a playoff against Greg...
  
  
• 1987 Roger Mackay
  Roger Mackay
  Roger J. Mackay was an Australian professional golfer.Mackay turned professional in 1983 and played on both the PGA Tour of Australasia and the Japan Golf Tour. His biggest successes came in Japan, where he won on eight occasions. In Australia he is best remembered for his 1987 win at the...
  
  
• 1986 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...
  
  
• 1985 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...
  
  
• 1984 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...
  
  
• 1983 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....
  
  
• 1982 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...
  
  
• 1981 Seve Ballesteros
• 1980 Sam Torrance
  Sam Torrance
  Sam Torrance OBE is a Scottish professional golfer and sports commentator. He was one of the leading players on the European Tour from the mid 1970s to the late 1990s, with 21 Tour wins. Torrance was a member of European Ryder Cup teams on eight occasions, from 1981 to 1995 consecutively; he was...
  
  
• 1979 Stewart Ginn
  Stewart Ginn
  Stewart Ginn is an Australian professional golfer.Ginn was born in Melbourne. He grew up behind the twelfth green of the Royal Melbourne Golf Club and started caddying at the age of ten. In the 1970s and 1980s he won several professional tournaments on the PGA Tour of Australasia and one on the...
  
  
• 1978 Hale Irwin
  Hale Irwin
  Hale S. Irwin is an American professional golfer. He is one of the few players in history to have won three U.S. Opens and was one of the world's leading golfers for much of the 1970s and 1980s. He has also developed a career as a golf course architect.Irwin was born in Joplin, Missouri, but was...
  
  
• 1977 Mike Cahill
• 1976 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...
  
  
• 1975 Vic Bennetts
• 1974 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...
  
  
• 1973 Randall Vines
• 1972 Randall Vines
• 1971 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...
  
  
• 1970 Bruce Devlin
  Bruce Devlin
  Bruce William Devlin is an Australian professional golfer, sportscaster and golf course designer.Devlin was born in Armidale, Australia. He turned pro in 1961 and joined the PGA Tour in 1962 after an amateur career in Australia which included a win at the Australian Amateur in 1959...
  
  
• 1969 Bruce Devlin
  Bruce Devlin
  Bruce William Devlin is an Australian professional golfer, sportscaster and golf course designer.Devlin was born in Armidale, Australia. He turned pro in 1961 and joined the PGA Tour in 1962 after an amateur career in Australia which included a win at the Australian Amateur in 1959...
  
  
• 1968 Kel Nagle
  Kel Nagle
  Kelvin David George Nagle is an Australian professional golfer best known for winning The Open Championship in 1960. He won at least one tournament each year from 1949 to 1975.Nagle was born in North Sydney...
  
  
• 1967 Peter Thomson
• 1966 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...
  
  
• 1965 Kel Nagle
  Kel Nagle
  Kelvin David George Nagle is an Australian professional golfer best known for winning The Open Championship in 1960. He won at least one tournament each year from 1949 to 1975.Nagle was born in North Sydney...
  
  
• 1964 Colin Johnston
• 1963 Colin Johnston
• 1962 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...
  
  
• 1961 Alan Murray
  Alan Murray (golfer)
  Alan Albert Murray is an Australian professional golfer.Murray was born in Sydney. He played golf worldwide, winning more than 60 tournaments including the 1962 French Open, the 1961 Australian PGA Championship and the 1967 Australian Wills Masters. He was the 1961 Australian PGA Order of Merit...
  
  
• 1960 John Sullivan
• 1959 Kel Nagle
  Kel Nagle
  Kelvin David George Nagle is an Australian professional golfer best known for winning The Open Championship in 1960. He won at least one tournament each year from 1949 to 1975.Nagle was born in North Sydney...
  
  
• 1958 Kel Nagle
  Kel Nagle
  Kelvin David George Nagle is an Australian professional golfer best known for winning The Open Championship in 1960. He won at least one tournament each year from 1949 to 1975.Nagle was born in North Sydney...
  
  
• 1957 Gary Player
  Gary Player
  Gary Player DMS; OIG is a South African professional golfer. With his nine major championship victories, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of golf. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974. Player has won 165 tournaments on six continents over six...
  
  
• 1956 Les Wilson
• 1955 Ossie Pickworth
  Ossie Pickworth
  Horace Henry Alfred "Ossie" Pickworth was a leading Australian professional golfer of the 1940s and 1950s, winner of three successive Australian Open titles from 1946 to 1948, the first and last of which came in playoffs against Jim Ferrier.Pickworth was born in Sydney.Unlike his contemporary...
  
  
• 1954 Kel Nagle
  Kel Nagle
  Kelvin David George Nagle is an Australian professional golfer best known for winning The Open Championship in 1960. He won at least one tournament each year from 1949 to 1975.Nagle was born in North Sydney...
  
  
• 1953 Ossie Pickworth
  Ossie Pickworth
  Horace Henry Alfred "Ossie" Pickworth was a leading Australian professional golfer of the 1940s and 1950s, winner of three successive Australian Open titles from 1946 to 1948, the first and last of which came in playoffs against Jim Ferrier.Pickworth was born in Sydney.Unlike his contemporary...
  
  
• 1952 William C Holder
• 1951 Norman Von Nida
  Norman Von Nida
  Norman Guy Von Nida was an Australian professional golfer.Von Nida was born in Strathfield and grew up in Brisbane. He turned professional in 1933, after attracting attention by winning the Queensland Amateur aged just 18...
  
  
• 1950 Norman Von Nida
  Norman Von Nida
  Norman Guy Von Nida was an Australian professional golfer.Von Nida was born in Strathfield and grew up in Brisbane. He turned professional in 1933, after attracting attention by winning the Queensland Amateur aged just 18...
  
  
• 1949 Kel Nagle
  Kel Nagle
  Kelvin David George Nagle is an Australian professional golfer best known for winning The Open Championship in 1960. He won at least one tournament each year from 1949 to 1975.Nagle was born in North Sydney...
  
  
• 1948 Norman Von Nida
  Norman Von Nida
  Norman Guy Von Nida was an Australian professional golfer.Von Nida was born in Strathfield and grew up in Brisbane. He turned professional in 1933, after attracting attention by winning the Queensland Amateur aged just 18...
  
  
• 1947 Ossie Pickworth
  Ossie Pickworth
  Horace Henry Alfred "Ossie" Pickworth was a leading Australian professional golfer of the 1940s and 1950s, winner of three successive Australian Open titles from 1946 to 1948, the first and last of which came in playoffs against Jim Ferrier.Pickworth was born in Sydney.Unlike his contemporary...
  
  
• 1946 Norman Von Nida
  Norman Von Nida
  Norman Guy Von Nida was an Australian professional golfer.Von Nida was born in Strathfield and grew up in Brisbane. He turned professional in 1933, after attracting attention by winning the Queensland Amateur aged just 18...
  
  
• 1940-45 No tournament due to World War II
  World War II
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
  
  
• 1939 Ted Naismith
• 1938 Eric Cremin
  Eric Cremin
  Eric James Cremin was an Australian golfer who, later in his career, was instrumental in the establishment of the Asian golf circuit.Cremin was born in Mascot, New South Wales...
  
  
• 1937 Eric Cremin
  Eric Cremin
  Eric James Cremin was an Australian golfer who, later in his career, was instrumental in the establishment of the Asian golf circuit.Cremin was born in Mascot, New South Wales...
  
  
• 1936 William Clifford
• 1935 Sam Richardson
• 1934 Lou Kelly
• 1933 Sam Richardson
• 1932 Fergus McMahon
• 1931 John Donald Spence
• 1930 Jock Robertson
• 1929 Rufus Stewart
• 1927-28 Unknown
• 1926 Frank Eyre
• 1925 Tom Howard
• 1924 Tom Howard
• 1923 Fred Popplewell
• 1922 Charlie Campbell
  Charlie Campbell
  Charlie Campbell is an American soccer player who currently plays for Orlando City in the USL Professional Division.-College and Amateur:...
  
  
• 1921 Arthur Le Fevre
• 1920 Unknown
• 1914-1919 No tournament due to World War I
  World War I
  World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
  
  
• 1913 Carnegie Clark
• 1912 Unknown
• 1911 Charlie Campbell
  Charlie Campbell
  Charlie Campbell is an American soccer player who currently plays for Orlando City in the USL Professional Division.-College and Amateur:...
  
  
• 1910 Dan Soutar
• 1909 Carnegie Clark
• 1908 Carnegie Clark
• 1907 Dan Soutar
• 1906 Dan Soutar
• 1905 Dan Soutar