ESP Open

ESP Open

Tournament information
Location	Canberra, Australia
Established	1988
Course(s)	Royal Canberra Golf Club
Par	72
Tour(s)	PGA Tour of Australia
Format	Stroke play
Month played	February
Final year	1988
Tournament record score
Aggregate	269 Greg Norman (1988)
To par	−19 as above
Final champion
Greg Norman
Location map
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The ESP Open was a golf tournament held in Australia in February 1988 at the Royal Canberra Golf Club, Canberra. The tournament was originally intended to run for an initial three years, but this was changed to a year-by-year arrangement after title sponsors ESP Pty Ltd agreed to also sponsor the Australian PGA Championship in 1987. This arrangement also resulted in a reduction in prize money for the ESP Open, which was halved from A$500,000 to A$250,000.^[1]

The ESP Open was scheduled to be played for the second time in January 1989 but was cancelled because of a clash of dates with the inaugural Coca-Cola Classic.^[2] Ultimately, the tournament was not held again.

Winners

Year	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner-up	Winner's share (A$)	Ref.
1988	Greg Norman	269	−19	7 strokes	Bernhard Langer	45,000	[3]

References

1. Hourigan, John (3 December 1987). "Money halved for ESP Open". The Canberra Times. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. p. 26. Retrieved 13 February 2020 – via Trove.
2. "Canberra's ESP Open suspended". The Canberra Times. Vol. 63, no. 19349. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 27 September 1988. p. 22. Retrieved 29 April 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
3. Moloney, Brendan (29 February 1988). "Norman by a yawning gap". The Age. p. 33.