William Edgar Dunk (born 10 December 1938)Billy Dunk
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Early life

Dunk is the son of a greenkeeper at Gosford Golf Club on the NSW Central Coast.

Professional career

Dunk won five

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s. In addition, he won the

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. He won over 100 tournaments and broke over 80 course records, more than any other golfer in Australia. In 1970, he led the world's scoring averages from Jack Nicklaus with 70.21 for 110 rounds. In 1970, Dunk set an Australian lowest-score record of 10 under par 60 at Merewether in the NBN-3 Tournament."PGA makes Golfing History at Sandhurst,"
Sandhurst Club, November 2008, docstoc (pdf). His course records include 61 at Maitland, NSW, 63 at Hastings New Zealand, 64 at Victoria Golf Club (9 birdies, 9 pars), then the lowest score ever played in the

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- 64 in the

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, 65 at Royal Selangor, 66 at

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and 66 at

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. In 1971, at Coffs Harbour he surged to 11 under after only 12 holes. He finished with 63, nine under par on the card. In a span of 30 months between 1967 and 1969, he won 25 tournaments and set 25 course records. Dunk also won the Malaysian Open and the New Zealand Open.

Personal life

Dunk and his wife Annette have three children. He settled on the New South Wales central coast.

Professional wins (51)

PGA of Japan Tour wins (2)

Far East Circuit wins (1)

PGA Tour of Australia wins (8)

''*Note: The 1978 Illawarra Open was shortened to 36 holes due to rain.'' PGA Tour of Australasia playoff record (2–2)

Other Australian wins (22)

''this list is incomplete'' *1960 New South Wales PGA *1962

*1966

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*1967 New South Wales Open,

, Forbes $1.500 Purse *1968 New South Wales PGA *1969 New South Wales PGA, Brisbane Water Tournament *1970 New South Wales PGA, South Australian Open,

, South Pacific Open *1971

, New South Wales Open,

, New South Wales PGA Foursomes Championship (with

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) *1972

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*1973

*1975 Royal Fremantle Open

New Zealand Golf Circuit wins (7)

New Zealand Golf Circuit playoff record (0–2)

Other New Zealand wins (1)

* 1968 Spalding Masters

Senior wins (10)

''this list is incomplete'' *1989 Australian PGA Seniors Championship, New South Wales Seniors *1990 New South Wales Seniors, Mitsukoshi Seniors (Japan) *1991 JAS Cup Senior (Japan), Misawa Resort Senior Open (Japan), Ho-Oh Cup (Japan) *1995 Australian PGA Seniors Championship *1993 Mizuno Senior Classic (Japan), HTB Hokkaido Senior (Japan)

Awards and honors

* Dunk was inducted as a life member of the

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in 1996.

Team appearances

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(representing Australia):

1968 Events January–February * January 1968, January – The I'm Backing Britain, I'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously. * January 5 – Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Cze ...

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1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, ...

References

External links

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Profile at Newcastle City Council Cultural site
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