The Western Australian Ten Thousand
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The Western Australian Ten Thousand[1] was a golf tournament in Australia held in October 1968. The event was held at Cottesloe Golf Club in Cottesloe, Western Australia.[1] The tournament was won by England's Peter Townsend.[2]
The event was held a week before the Australian Open which was also held in Western Australia.[3] This helped attract top Australian golfers like Kel Nagle and Peter Thomson.[1] In the second round, England's Peter Townsend broke Cottelsoe's course record with a 66 (−6) to take the lead.[3] He received "only token resistance" thereafter and defeated Australian Bill Dunk by two shots at 282 (−6).[3] Nagle and Japan's Takashi Murakami finished a further shot back (−3, 285) in joint third.[2]
