The 2016 Herb Elliott Medal was awarded to golfer Curtis Luck and AFL footballer Nathan Fyfe at last Saturday’s WAIS Annual Dinner.
First presented in 2015, the Herb Elliott Medal celebrates the most influential sporting moment by a Western Australian athlete over a voting period year (1 September 2015 – 31 October 2016).
In 2016, the WA Hall of Champions selection committee couldn’t be split between the achievements of amateur golfer Curtis Luck and Fremantle Dockers footballer Nathan Fyfe.
Curtis Luck:
20 year-old Western Australian amateur golfer Curtis Luck joined elite company last August when he won the US Amateur Championship at Oakland Hills in Michigan.
Luck became just the third Australian to lift the coveted Havemeyer trophy and earns entry for the 2017 US Masters, US Open and British Open after he recorded a dominant six and four win over American Brad Dalke, with father Stuart Luck, proudly caddying his son to victory.
* Curtis Luck’s award was accepted by his coach Craig Bishop, with his mother Jody Luck also present at the 2016 WAIS Annual Dinner.
Nathan Fyfe:
In 2015, Nathan Fyfe was the league’s most exciting and dominant footballer – becoming the first Fremantle Docker to win the Brownlow Medal as the club topped the league, claiming the minor Premiership for the first time in its history.
Fyfe polled 31 votes, including an incredible sequence of 29 votes between rounds 2 and 14, as he stamped himself as one of the great players of the modern AFL era.
