Harry Williams

Harry Williams was born in 1915 and educated at Brighton Grammar School until 1930. Playing golf from the age of 10, at just 12 he was elected a junior member of Commonwealth Golf Club.

A child prodigy, he won his first monthly medal in 1928 starring in the club’s senior pennant team. At the age of 16 he joined Victoria Golf Club and in the same year won both the Australian and Victorian amateur championships.

Williams won the Victorian amateur championship again in 1934, 1935, 1936 and 1939. After winning his second Australian amateur title in 1937, he was heralded by many as ‘the greatest golfer Australia had produced’.

Chronic asthma cut short Harry’s army service and he did not play golf seriously again after World War II.

In 2002, Harry was named as one of the twelve members of the Victorian Golfing Team of the 20th Century.