RS Elliott Tournament

Sir Ronald Elliott Knighthood
The London Gazette – 12th May 1981
Sir Ronald Elliott

Sir Ronald Elliott

The RS Elliott is an annual golf tournament that is named after CBA’s Chief Manager of Queensland, Ronald Elliott. Ronald Elliott was an avid supporter of golf and as a result, a national CBA golf tournament between each state CBA Golf Club (except NT) was born. The inaugural RS Elliott tournament took place in 1965 at Sydney’s Bonnie Doon Golf Club.

Ronald Elliott went on to be the CBA Managing Director from 1976 to 1981 where he eventually retired on 14th August 1981 after six years as managing director. A significant highlight of Ronald Elliott’s life was on Friday 20th March, 1981 when he was officially knighted by the Governor General of the Commonwealth of Australia. To this date, he has been honourably referred to as “Sir Ronald Elliott”.

During the month of March each year, the RS Elliott tournament takes place over two days of golf where each state team will compete for a number of team and individual trophies. On day one of the tournament, teams will play for the Managing Director’s Trophy and on day two, teams will play for the RS Elliott trophy and the Brisbane Salver. Also on day two, players will compete for the individual trophies – Melbourne Cup and the Gateway Bank Cup.

The trophies are listed below

Trophy

Format

Donated by
R S Elliott Best five scratch scores (team) Ron Elliott, Chief Manager, Queensland
Brisbane Salver Best seven handicap stableford scores (team) CBA Brisbane Golf Club
Melbourne Club Best individual stroke score CBA Melbourne Golf Club
Gateway Bank Cup
(previously Canberra Cup)		 Best individual stableford score Gateway Bank (2007)
(previously CBA Canberra Golf Club)
Managing Director’s Trophy
(previously Mick Costello Trophy)		 Best team average stableford score Managing Director (1998)
(previously Mick Costello)

Results from the past RS Elliott tournaments are detailed below

No

Year

R S Elliott

Brisbane Salver

Melbourne Club Trophy

Canberra Cup

Mick Costello
1 1965 QLD NSW G Wright Qld J Vague NSW –
2 1966 QLD VIC G Jull QLD G Jull Qld –
3 1967 NSW NSW I Stanley Vic J Oxenham NSW –
4 1968 NSW NSW I Stanley Vic P O’Reagan NSW –
5 1969 NSW NSW W Faulkner NSW B Barry NSW –
6 1970 VIC NSW K Taylor NSW K Taylor NSW –
7 1971 NSW NSW R Bolt NSW R Bolt NSW –
8 1972 VIC VIC P Lulofs VIC A O’Shea VIC –
9 1973 VIC VIC C Mead VIC R Weaver NSW –
10 1974 NSW QLD P Garth TAS P Sweeney ACT –
11 1975 QLD/TAS TAS P Garth TAS R King QLD –
12 1976 NSW SA R Bywater QLD R Bywater QLD –
13 1977 WA WA T Groves NSW T Groves NSW –
14 1978 VIC VIC T Groves NSW T Groves NSW –
15 1979 VIC TAS T Groves NSW B Yost TAS –
16 1980 NSW QLD T Groves NSW G Fraser SA –
17 1981 NSW QLD B Shackleford VIC L Ryan SA –
18 1982 NSW SA/WA S Baker VIC W Goldspink WA –
19 1983 VIC VIC J Lapidge SA W Goldspink WA –
20 1984 VIC VIC S Seear VIC S Seear VIC –
21 1985 VIC WA A Chandler VIC K Martin WA –
22 1986 SA SA J Lapidge SA S Blunden NSW –
23 1987 VIC SA P Garth TAS R Stubbs WA QLD
24 1988 ACT ACT G English ACT K Byrne WA WA
25 1989 NSW NSW P Lulofs VIC P Bendeich NSW WA
26 1990 QLD NSW D Foster QLD C Davies QLD WA
27 1991 QLD WA S Seear TAS J Spiers SA VIC
28 1992 QLD VIC/ACT D Foster QLD S Direen TAS VIC
29 1993 QLD TAS R Whetton NSW M Lawrence QLD ACT
30 1994 QLD ACT C Heinrich QLD G Harle WA WA
30 1995 QLD VIC J Smith QLD P Henderson VIC ACT
32 1996 QLD VIC/TAS J Sale TAS S Geeves TAS QLD
33 1997 QLD VIC J Sale TAS C Shaw VIC VIC

Managing Director’s 
Trophy
34 1998 TAS TAS J Sale TAS T Willson TAS VIC
35 1999 TAS NSW D Foster Qld K Nemeth VIC NSW
36 2000 TAS QLD S Direen TAS B Wainwright QLD NSW & SA
37 2001 SA QLD A Stoodley SA S Driscoll QLD NSW
38 2002 NSW NSW J Sale TAS E Taylor QLD NSW
39 2003 TAS WA C White WA L Jenkins QLD WA
40 2004 TAS WA C White WA D Hocken WA NSW
41 2005 TAS QLD / VIC S Cooper NSW J Sale TAS SA
42 2006 TAS WA S Cooper NSW D Taylor QLD WA

Gateway Bank Cup
43 2007 NSW QLD S Cooper NSW L Jenkins QLD NSW
44 2008 NSW NSW S Cooper NSW J Tarka VIC NSW
45 2009 NSW WA S Cooper NSW V Smelter WA WA
46 2010 NSW SA S Cooper NSW A Jennings SA QLD
47 2011 NSW TAS S Cooper NSW D Hickman TAS NSW
48 2012 SA QLD S Connelly M Kwiez QLD TAS
49 2013 QLD QLD D Foster QLD D Foster QLD NSW
50 2014 NSW NSW S Cooper NSW C Britton QLD WA
51 2015 NSW NSW S Cooper NSW R Mair NSW SA
52 2016 NSW/SA SA L Rodger, NSW A Jennings SA NSW
53 2017 NSW NSW R Mair NSW C Dowell, QLD SA
54 2018 SA WA D Wirth SA A McRae QLD SA
55 2019 SA QLD S Cooper, NSW Phil Custance SA NSW
56 2020 NSW NSW S Cooper, NSW Mike Dix, WA Vic