Spalding Masters
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{{Infobox golf tournament
| name = Spalding Masters
| image =
| location = Tauranga, New Zealand
| establishment = 1968
| course = Tauranga Golf Club
| par = 70
| tour = New Zealand Golf Circuit
| format = Stroke play
| month_played = January
| final_year = 1972
| purse = {{currency|5,000|NZD}}
| aggregate = 260 Bob Charles (1969)
| to-par = −20 as above
| final_champion = {{flagicon|NZL}} Bob Charles
| coordinates = {{coord|-37.729|176.121}}
| map = New Zealand
| map_label = Tauranga GC
| map_caption = Location in New Zealand
| map_relief = yes
| map_label_position =
| map_size =
}}
The Spalding Masters was a golf tournament held in New Zealand from 1968 to 1972. The event was generally hosted by Tauranga Golf Club in Tauranga, although the 1968 event was held at the nearby Mount Manganui Golf Club. The tournament was held in early January, although the 1972 event started on 30 December 1971.
History
From 1969 the tournament was part of the New Zealand golf circuit.{{cite news |url-status=live |title=Golf circuit now worth $91,500 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19710910.2.171 |access-date=6 July 2023 |work=The Press |issue=32708 |publisher=National Library of New Zealand |date=10 September 1971 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230301092336/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19710910.2.171 |archive-date=March 1, 2023 |location=Auckland, New Zealand |page=22}} Bob Charles won the event twice. His 1969 total of 260 tied Kel Nagle for the lowest 72-hole score ever in a tournament played outside of the United States.{{cite news |date=27 February 1973 |title=Jacklin one off record |page=4 |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NOE9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=SUgMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6496%2C5543921 |accessdate=7 May 2020 |via=Google News Archive}}
Winners
Notes
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