Top-class golf returns to the Top End for the first time since 2023 with the latest edition of the Tailor-made Building Services NT PGA Championship starting Thursday.
Eleven months after a life-changing accident, Jeffrey Guan, 21, will cement one of the year’s most remarkable sports stories when he makes a return to pro golf this week in the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia’s Northern Territory PGA Championship in Darwin.
Armed with the presence of his father, Ken, and words of encouragement from Adam Scott and Min Woo Lee, Jeffrey Guan will tee off on the year’s most inspiring sports story when he returns to competition less than 12 months after a devastating accident left him blind in one eye.
A week after making his PGA Tour debut in America, Australian golf sensation Jeffrey Guan’s world was tipped upside down when a stray golf ball struck him in the eye during a pro-am in regional New South Wales. After multiple surgeries, the 20-year-old has come to terms with irreversible vision loss but remains hopeful for a comeback to the sport’s elite level.
Jeffrey Guan, fresh off making his PGA Tour debut at the Procore Championship in California last week where he opened with an impressive 3-under-par round, was reportedly struck in the eye by a tee shot from a pro-am partner.
A new name joins the Aussie contingent on the PGA TOUR this week with New South Welshman Jeffrey Guan to make his debut at the Procore Championship in California.
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