Phil Billings
{{Short description|Australian golfer (born 1939)}}
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Phillip K. Billings{{Cite web|url=https://www.igfgolf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1966-67-WAGTC-Record-Book.pdf|title=Record book (1966–67 WAGTC)|date=August 2014|publisher=International Golf Federation}} (born 1939){{Cite web|url=https://collections.ncc.nsw.gov.au/keemu/pages/nrm/nmuseum/Display.php?irn=8190&QueryPage=%2Fkeemu%2Fpages%2Fnrm%2Fnmuseum%2FQuery.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170309201334/http://collections.ncc.nsw.gov.au/keemu/pages/nrm/nmuseum/Display.php?irn=8190&QueryPage=%2Fkeemu%2Fpages%2Fnrm%2Fnmuseum%2FQuery.php|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 March 2017|title=Billings, Phillip, Golf|publisher=Newcastle City Council Collections|access-date=12 August 2018}} is a former Australian amateur golfer.
Golfing career
He was part of the winning Australian team at the 1966 Eisenhower Trophy in Mexico City. As national captain, he led his country to a tie with Great Britain at the Commonwealth Tournament in 1963.{{Cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=y2tAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fKMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1628%2C3228878|title=Commonwealth title shared – Britain and Australia|newspaper=The Glasgow Herald|page=6|date=21 October 1963}} He has won the Lake Macquarie Amateur the most times, winning on seven occasions (1959, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1974).{{Cite web|url=http://www.golfnsw.org/eventdisplay/mens--womens-lake-macquarie-amateur/9748|title=Men's & Women's Lake Macquarie Amateur|publisher=NSW Golf|accessdate=12 August 2018}} He was the medallist in the 1961 Australian Amateur and won the New South Wales Amateur the same year.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article105852725 |title=Amateur wins golf title |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=36 |issue=10,074 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=18 November 1961 |accessdate=26 September 2018 |page=32 |via=National Library of Australia}}
Billings also competed in professional events. He won the 1961 Lakes Open and was a runner-up in the 1971 New South Wales Open.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lwQrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_uQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4516%2C5561252 |title=Dunk wins NSW Open |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=15 February 1971 |page=17}}
Personal life
For his career, Billings worked as a schoolteacher.{{Cite news|date=1961-11-18|title=AMATEUR WINS GOLF TITLE|work=Canberra Times|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article105852725|access-date=2022-02-26}}
Tournament wins
- 1959 Lake Macquarie Amateur
- 1960 Lake Macquarie Amateur
- 1961 New South Wales Amateur Championship, Lake Macquarie Amateur, Lakes Open
- 1964 Lake Macquarie Amateur
- 1965 Lake Macquarie Amateur
- 1966 Lake Macquarie Amateur
- 1974 Lake Macquarie Amateur
Team appearances
- Eisenhower Trophy (representing Australia): 1962, 1964, 1966 (winners)
- Commonwealth Tournament (representing Australia): 1963 (joint winners), 1967
- Sloan Morpeth Trophy (representing Australia): 1961, 1964 (winners), 1965, 1966 (winners), 1967 (winners)
- Australian Men's Interstate Teams Matches (representing New South Wales): 1957 (winners), 1958 (winners), 1959 (winners), 1960 (winners), 1961, 1962 (joint winners), 1963, 1964 (winners), 1965 (winners), 1967 (winners), 1968, 1969 (winners), 1970 (winners), 1971, 1972 (winners), 1974, 1982
References
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Category:Australian male golfers
Category:People from the Hunter Region
Category:Sportsmen from New South Wales
Category:20th-century Australian sportsmen
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