Ross Newdick

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| death_date = November 2005 (aged 68)

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Ross R. Newdick (1936/1937 – November 2005){{cite news |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/golf-former-pro-newdick-dies/DR557C7SIG5KENQTDK75M3Y7IE/ |title=Golf: Former pro Newdick dies |date=28 November 2005 |newspaper=NZ Herald}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/emobituaryem-ross-newdick/YJQZ45VUIDBAU22PLKZIPC7ZIM/ |title=Obituary: Ross Newdick |date=2 December 2005 |newspaper=NZ Herald}} was a professional golfer from New Zealand. He had a successful amateur career winning the New Zealand Amateur Championship in 1960. He turned professional in 1963 and won the New Zealand PGA Championship and the Singapore Open in 1966.

Amateur career

Newdick won the New Zealand Amateur in 1960, beating Ian Woodbury, 8 and 7, in the final at Invercargill.{{cite web |url=https://www.golf.co.nz/uploads/History%20%20Mens%20Results.pdf |title=Part X – History of Tournament results |accessdate=15 October 2020 |publisher=New Zealand golf}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article103110535 |title=Nagle Takes N.Z. Golf Title |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=35 |issue=9767 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=24 November 1960 |accessdate=30 September 2019 |page=31 |via=National Library of Australia}} He represented New Zealand each year from 1959 to 1963, in the Commonwealth Tournament in 1959 and 1963, in the Eisenhower Trophy in 1960 and 1962 and in the Sloan Morpeth Trophy in 1961.{{cite web |url=https://www.golf.co.nz/uploads/Mens%20International%20Teams.pdf |title=Men's representative players |accessdate=15 October 2020 |publisher=New Zealand golf}} In the Eisenhower Trophy, New Zealand finished 5th in 1960 and 4th in 1962.{{cite web |url=https://www.igfgolf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1960-WAGTC.pdf |title=Record Book 2nd World Amateur Golf Team Championship for the Eisenhower Trophy |publisher=World Amateur Golf Council |accessdate=26 September 2018}}{{cite web |url=https://www.igfgolf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1962-WAGT-Championship-Record-Book.pdf |title=Record Book 3rd World Amateur Golf Team Championship for the Eisenhower Trophy |publisher=World Amateur Golf Council |accessdate=26 September 2018}}

Professional career

Newdick turned professional in late 1963. He won both the New Zealand PGA Championship and the Singapore Open in early 1966. In January, he won the New Zealand PGA Championship after a final round of 64 to win by a stroke.{{Cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hL8QAAAAIBAJ&pg=2893%2C1219108 |title=Newdick has 64 to win by one stroke |date=10 January 1966 |page=16 |newspaper=The Age}} In March, he won the Singapore Open, beating Lu Liang-Huan and George Will at the second hole of a sudden-death playoff.{{Cite news |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19660307-1.2.119.1 |title=It's Newdick's Open |date=7 March 1966 |newspaper=The Straits Times |page=21}}{{Cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FIBAAAAAIBAJ&pg=5288%2C1075949 |title=Will beaten in play-off |date=7 March 1966 |page=7 |newspaper=Glasgow Herald}} Newdick had been runner-up in the 1965 Hong Kong Open and in the 1965 Metalcraft Tournament, behind Peter Thomson on both occasions.Thomson's Dramatic "Open" Win, South China Morning Post, page 1, 29 March 1965{{Cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lUUVAAAAIBAJ&pg=6974%2C4108816 |title=Thomson wins again in NZ |date=24 November 1965 |page=20 |newspaper=The Age}} He played in Europe in 1964, 1965 and 1966, playing in the Open Championship in 1964 and 1965. In the 1965 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale, he made the cut after rounds of 75 and 72.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wGxAAAAAIBAJ&pg=6592%2C1291250 |work=Glasgow Herald |last=Jacobs |first=Raymond |title=Devlin shares with Lema |date=9 July 1965 |page=6 }} He was runner-up in the German Open in 1966.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=o39AAAAAIBAJ&pg=1315%2C3537142 |title=German Open Champion |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |date=25 July 1966 |page=5}}

Later life

After retiring from tournament golf, Newdick was involved golf course design and development. In 2005, while working in China, he was diagnosed with cancer and died two months later.