Lucas Herbert will kick off his Australian summer of golf calendar by attempting to defend his title at the Ford NSW Open at The Vintage Golf Club, marking one of the feature stops of the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia.
Top End heat and hot, blustery winds baking out the golf course in real time, Palmerston Golf & Country Club threw everything it had at players over the final 18 holes.
The National Golf Club on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula is Australia’s only golf club with three 18-hole courses at a single site – The National also boasts a fourth course, Long Island, at Frankston – and is the host course for a fourth straight year of The National Tournament starting this Thursday.
The 26-year-old Victorian has clinched the ISPS Handa PGA Tour Order of Merit with his two-shot win in the $400,000 tournament, more than 400 points clear at the top with just one tournament remaining.
Yoon has joined the elite company of Hannah Green (TPS Murray River last year) and Linn Grant (the DP World Tour’s Scandinavian Mixed event last year) as the only women to triumph in a 72-hole professional mixed-gender tournament.
Sydney trio Justin Warren, John Lyras and Nathan Barbieri and Brisbane’s Gavin Fairfax have taken the first step to earning a card on the Korn Ferry Tour in 2023.