Australian Women's Interstate Teams Matches

[1] In 2020 the format for interstate team matches was changed so that the men's and women's event were combined into a single mixed-team event, the Australian Interstate Teams Matches.

They were able to arrange a four-team knock-out event played on a single day, with the same format as in 1907.

[4] From 1910 the matches were held during the Australian Golf Union championship meeting.

The 1910 matches were held before the start of the qualifying rounds for the Australian Women's Amateur, with teams of five.

[5] New South Wales won in 1911, beating Tasmania and then Victoria in the final.

Victoria won every year of the 1920s except 1925, when they lost narrowly to New South Wales.

Four teams competed in 1930, Victoria continuing their run of success.

They had previously only three matches since the events started in 1907, all of them narrowly to New South Wales.

[13] New South Wales retained the cup in 1935 beating Victoria and Tasmania.

Queensland competed for the first time in Sydney in 1938 and were followed by Western Australia in 1939 at Kooyonga.

In 1939 Western Australia reached the final, lost four matches to one to Victoria.

[19] The format was changed in 1951, from a knock-out to a round-robin, with each state playing all the others, extending the event to three days.

Western Australia did not compete at Kingston Beach in 1956 but otherwise all six states were represented after 1953.

[24] The period from 1963 to 1978 was dominated by New South Wales who won 13 of the 16 events, were runners-up twice and third on the other occasion.

A final was introduced from 2011 between the leading two teams in the round-robin, to decide the winner of the event.

Western Australia won on 2011, 2012 and 2014, despite finishing the round-robin stage in second place on each occasion.

However, a final was introduced from 2011, between the leading two teams in the round-robin, to decide the winner of the event.