This week’s Tailor-made Building Services NT PGA Championship is the 14th and final event of the season, a season that has taken courage, belief and hard work behind the scenes to bring to fruition.
The victory secures his job for two years and, he admitted later, might coax him out of the old van he tends to sleep in when he plays on the eastern seaboard.
To be fair, given the quality of golf courses available at The National Golf Club on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, there was no such thing as a poor choice.
Newcastle’s Blake Windred sees the 2022 version of himself as far more accomplished than the one who led last year’s New South Wales Open before letting too many chances slip by over the weekend.
An enthralling final day saw the lead change hands on a number of occasions but it was always Pike and New Zealand’s Momoka Kobori in the top two positions, ultimately finishing tied at eight-under and three clear of the rest of the field.
Gold Coast’s Anthony Quayle has twice had to drag himself up off the canvas to complete a two-stroke victory in an enthralling final day of the Queensland PGA Championship in Brisbane.
A member at Royal Queensland Golf Club for the past five years, Morgan has been a professional for less than three months but his course record of eight-under 63 and two-round total of 14-under has thrown down the gauntlet to the more established pros in the field.
The DP World Tour and ISPS Handa PGA Tour of Australasia (PGATA) are delighted to jointly announce an extension of their Strategic Alliance through until 2026 and to announce that the Fortinet Australian PGA Championship will be returning to Brisbane’s Royal Queensland Golf Club as part of the DP World Tour in late 2022.
With the host course’s architect as his caddie, Elvis Smylie will play this week’s Australian PGA Championship with an advantage no other player can claim.
Ongoing travel restrictions have kept recognised names such as Scott, Cameron Smith and Marc Leishman from making the trip home for a second straight year, opening the way for a new breed of young professionals to emerge.
Australian Golf Digest
