Leslie Penfold Hyland

Herbert Leslie Penfold Hyland (4 March 1875 – 6 May 1940) was a director of Penfolds Wines and amateur sportsman, winning the South Australian amateur golf championship in 1905 and 1906.^[1]

Personal life

Herbert Leslie Hyland was born on 4 March 1875, the son of Thomas Francis Hyland and Mary Georgina Anne Penfold, the only child of Dr. Christopher Rawson Penfold, the founder of Penfolds.^[2][3] He later adopted the name, Penfold Hyland. He married Edith Mary Miller on 30 April 1900, which marriage ended in divorce in 1920.^[4][5] He was born in Victoria but moved to South Australia in late 1904. He died on 6 May 1940 and was survived by two sons and a daughter.^[2]

Golf

Hyland was an amateur golfer. In 1901 he was runner-up in the Victorian Amateur Championship, 19 strokes behind Walter Carre Riddell.^[6] In July 1904, he won the Surrey Hills Gentlemen's Championship. Over 36 holes he was 4 down to bogey, 3 ahead of Michael Scott, who was 7 down.^[7] In September, he was runner-up to Scott in the first Australian Open and the following month was again runner-up to Scott in the Victorian Amateur Championship.^[8][9]

Soon after moving to South Australia, Hyland was runner-up to Tom Cheadle in the South Australian Amateur Championship in 1905, losing 10 & 9 in the 36-hole final.^[10] In 1906 he won the South Australian Amateur Championship, beating Bill Gunson in the final.^[11] The two met again in the 1907 final, with Hyland winning 6 & 5.^[12]

Team appearances

• Australian Men's Interstate Teams Matches (representing South Australia): 1905, 1907, 1908, 1910