The Western Australian Polo Association is the governing association of polo clubs in Western Australia.
The Western Australian Polo Association was founded in 1903.[1] As polo historian Horace A. Laffaye reminds us, this happened seven years after the establishment of the first polo club in Western Australia, the Perth Polo Club, in 1896.[1] Indeed, polo had first been played at the Fremantle Hunt Club in Fremantle as early as 1892, almost ten years before the establishment of the Western Australian Polo Association.[1]
The association is a member of the Australian Polo Federation.[2] It comprises all polo clubs registered with the Australian Polo Federation which are based in Western Australia. Historically, this included polo clubs in the Goldfields-Esperance region, Cue or Geraldton and several other locations.[1] However, it currently only comprises five polo clubs:
The current President is Greg Johnson.[3] It is headquartered in Serpentine.[4]