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<\/p>\nTHE Vic Open will return to 13th Beach Golf Links in 2027, with next year\u2019s tournament marking the 70th anniversary of the men\u2019s championship and the 20th staging of the women\u2019s event.<\/p>\n
Golf Australia will again partner with the Victorian Government to deliver the tournament, with the 2027 Vic Open to be played from January 21-24 as a part of both the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia and WPGA Tour of Australasia schedules.<\/p>\n
As it has since 2012, the Vic Open will feature separate tournaments for women and men played concurrently across 13th Beach\u2019s renowned Beach and Creek courses, with players competing for a combined $400,000 in prizemoney.<\/p>\n
Widely recognised as the first event of its kind, the Vic Open\u2019s innovative dual-gender format has become a blueprint replicated in professional golf around the world.<\/p>\n
The men\u2019s Vic Open was first played in 1957, won by 10 shots by the great Ossie Pickworth, while Helen Hopkins won the first edition of the women\u2019s event in 1988.<\/p>\n
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Cam John and Lydia Hall are the reigning Vic Open champions.<\/p>\n
The previous 19 stagings of the women\u2019s Open have produced an outstanding champions list that includes the likes of major champions Minjee Lee, Hannah Green, Celine Boutier, Georgia Hall and Jiyai Shin.<\/p>\n
Min Woo Lee and 2026 winner Cam John, who last month made his major debut at the Open Championship, are recent men\u2019s Vic Open champions. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Golf Australia CEO James Sutherland said: \u201cThe Vic Open has become a unique and popular events on our calendar and we\u2019re thrilled to be returning to 13th Beach Golf Links again in 2027.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo celebrate the 70th anniversary of the men\u2019s championship, and the 20th staging of the women\u2019s event, at a venue that has become synonymous with the modern Vic Open makes next year\u2019s tournament even more special.\u201d<\/p>\n
Golf continues to play a significant role in Victoria\u2019s visitor economy, contributing approximately $900 million annually to the state economy and supporting close to 7000 jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE Vic Open will return to 13th Beach Golf Links in 2027, with next year\u2019s tournament marking the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44,661],"class_list":["post-51063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-golf","tag-golf-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}