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BLUE JACKET CLASSIC

[edit] An Annual Golf Event In the mid to late 80s three accountants from Coopers and Lybrand - Kevin Boyd, Stephen Pollard and Nigel Bruckner - went away for a weekend's golf somewhere up on the Murray. Little did they realise what was to follow. By 1989, Rick Frazer had become involved and, inspired by Augusta's Green Jacket, purchased a Blue Jacket from an Oakleigh op shop. It is that Jacket for which a dozen or so golfers strive annually. The Inaugural Blue Jacket Classic took place in Cobram in 1989. Only three players competed, with Pollard defeating Frazer and Boyd. Martin Fitzpatrick, a bold striking single figure handicapper from Keysborough, joined the Jacket field as it was played for again later in 1989, this time at Sorrento. He triumphed and the word began to spread. The following year six players arrived at Yarrawonga. Again the Jacket was contested twice that year and the field blew out to 10 by the time they teed it up at Lonsdale that summer. The legend of the Jacket was now enshrined.

[edit] Multiple Winners Three players have won the Blue Jacket four times - Stephen Pollard, Kevin Boyd and Andrew Maher. Stephen Ferrigno and Brian Paynter have each won it twice. Former leading Australian professional Mike Clayton joined the field in 2005 when the Jacket went to Tasmania's majestic Barnbougle Dunes, the course co-designed by Clayton, where he won his first Jacket. He failed to back-to-back the following year however, where Stuart Eason defeated a star-studded field to win his first Jacket. The field included Lleyton Hewitt's then-manager, Rob Avaitaglou, who finished in a tie for second. In 2007 the Blue Jacket Classic will be played on the Bellarine Peninsula's 13th Beach layout.

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