Mr Norman Von Nida OAM
Published Sun 01 Jan 2017
| SPORT | Golf |
| YEAR INDUCTED | 2009 - Athlete Member |
“The Von” who learned to play golf as a caddy at Royal Brisbane became one of Australia’s best known players of the late 1940s and ‘50s. He won the Australian Open three times, the PGA four times, and took out 12 tournaments in Britain.
He turned professional in 1933, after attracting attention by winning the Queensland Amateur aged just 18. He was the first Australian to win regularly on the British tour, although World War II deprived him of competition during what might have been his peak years.
The PGA Tour of Australasia’s developmental tour is named the “Von Nida Tour” after him.
Von Nida died aged 93.
