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Oliver Goss

Australian golfer (born 1994)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ2151628 ↗
Source-derived summary

Oliver Goss (born 12 April 1994) is an Australian professional golfer. He is from Fremantle, Western Australia.

Goss won the 2012 Western Australian Open on the PGA Tour of Australasia while still an amateur.

Goss was runner-up in the 2013 U.S. Amateur. He was the only amateur golfer to make the cut at the 2014 Masters Tournament and thus received low amateur honors.

Goss turned professional after the 2014 U.S. Open and made his professional debut at the next week's Travelers Championship.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Oliver Goss” is australian golfer (born 1994). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Oliver, Goss and Australian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 2012, 2013, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1994-04-12. For this dossier, Oliver, Goss and Australian is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2151628. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1994, 2012, 2013 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Oliver Goss” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.