Leslie Penfold Hyland

Herbert Leslie Hyland was born on 4 March 1875, the son of Thomas Francis Hyland and Mary Georgina Anne Penfold, the only child of Dr. Christopher Rawson Penfold, the founder of Penfolds.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47190719 |title=Death of Mr. Penfold Hyland |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=7 May 1940 |accessdate=20 November 2020 |page=16 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article40939414 |title=Penfold Director Dead |newspaper=The Courier-mail |issue=2083 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=7 May 1940 |accessdate=20 November 2020 |page=16 |via=National Library of Australia}} He later adopted the name, Penfold Hyland. He married Edith Mary Miller on 30 April 1900, which marriage ended in divorce in 1920.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37075392 |title=An Unhappy Marriage |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=4 September 1920 |accessdate=20 November 2020 |page=13 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3301975 |title=In divorce |newspaper=Northern Territory Times and Gazette |location=Northern Territory, Australia |date=24 December 1921 |accessdate=20 November 2020 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}} He was born in Victoria but moved to South Australia in late 1904. He died on 6 May 1940 and was survived by two sons and a daughter.

Hyland was an amateur golfer. In 1901 he was runner-up in the Victorian Amateur Championship, 19 strokes behind Walter Carre Riddell.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article196600335 |title=Golf |newspaper=The Leader (Melbourne) |issue=2385 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=21 September 1901 |accessdate=20 November 2020 |page=17 |via=National Library of Australia}} In July 1904, he won the Surrey Hills Gentlemen's Championship. Over 36 holes he was 4 down to bogey, 3 ahead of Michael Scott, who was 7 down.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10323374 |title=Golf |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |issue=18,064 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=7 June 1904 |accessdate=23 November 2020 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}} In September, he was runner-up to Scott in the first Australian Open and the following month was again runner-up to Scott in the Victorian Amateur Championship.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10338538 |title=Golf - Interstate Open Championship |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |issue=18,141 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=5 September 1904 |accessdate=13 November 2018 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article189434988 |title=Championship golf |newspaper=The Age |issue=15,483 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=22 October 1904 |accessdate=20 November 2020 |page=12 |via=National Library of Australia}}

Soon after moving to South Australia, Hyland was runner-up to Tom Cheadle in the South Australian Amateur Championship in 1905, losing 10 & 9 in the 36-hole final.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article162440723 |title=Golf |newspaper=The Leader (Melbourne) |volume=LXII |issue=3,339 |location=South Australia |date=30 September 1905 |accessdate=20 November 2020 |page=19 |via=National Library of Australia}} In 1906 he won the South Australian Amateur Championship, beating Bill Gunson in the final.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88121417 |title=Golfing |newspaper=The Chronicle (Adelaide) |volume=49 |issue=2,502 |location=South Australia |date=4 August 1906 |accessdate=20 November 2020 |page=24 |via=National Library of Australia}} The two met again in the 1907 final, with Hyland winning 6 & 5.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56526543 |title=Golf |newspaper=The Register (Adelaide) |volume=LXXII |issue=18,941 |location=South Australia |date=29 July 1907 |accessdate=20 November 2020 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}}

• Australian Men's Interstate Teams Matches (representing South Australia): 1905, 1907, 1908, 1910

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