Despite some initial confusion, the Victorian Golf Cup became established as the Amateur Championship of Victoria.
[6] Jim Howden won again in 1900, followed by Walter Carre Riddell in 1901, who finished 19 strokes ahead of the runner-up.
[9] Hugh MacNeil, a Scottish-born New Zealander who had recently moved to Sydney was the winner with a score of 328.
[12] Michael Scott, the youngest son of the Earl of Eldon, had emigrated to Australia in about 1900 but had played little golf until 1904.
[13] Scott immediately showed that he was one of the leading golfers in Australia, winning the inaugural Australian Open and, later in 1904, the Victorian championship.
[14] He would eventually win all six Victorian championships that he played in, from 1904 to 1910, before his permanent return to the United Kingdom in 1911.
[15] He didn't compete in 1906, having made returned to the UK, enabling Riddell to win the event for a third time.
[16] William Bruce, an ex-Test cricketer, was the runner-up in 1905, having taken up golf after his cricketeting career had ended.
[20] As a result, the Victorian Amateur Championship was played as part of the Metropolitan Golf Club's annual meeting.
Following closely after the Australian championship meeting, many of the leading Victorian golfers could not attend for business reasons.
When the championship resumed in 1919, after World War I, Whitton was the winner, 8 strokes ahead of Bruce Pearce.
Robert Allenby in 1990, Stuart Appleby in 1991, Geoff Ogilvy in 1997 and Aaron Baddeley in 1998, all won on the PGA Tour in America and reached the top-20 of the world rankings.
[55][56][57][58] A number of other winners would later reach the top-100 of the world rankings, including Mike Clayton, Bradley Hughes and Craig Spence, who each won the championship twice, and Marcus Fraser, James Morrison and Cameron Davis.