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Story: Amateurism and professionalism

Amateur golf championship, Dunedin, 1908

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Amateur golf championship, Dunedin, 1908

These men – (from left) R. Smith, Basil Smith, Hamilton Smith and C. Turnbull – played in the 1908 New Zealand Amateur Golf Championship held in Dunedin. Golf had separate amateur and ‘open’ competitions – professionals could compete in the latter.

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Auckland Council Libraries − Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau, Sir George Grey Special Collections

Reference: AWNS-19081008-12-1

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Geoff Watson, Amateurism and professionalism – Amateurism in New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/37998/amateur-golf-championship-dunedin-1908 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Geoff Watson, published 22 November 2012.