If the recent PGA Tour of Australasia season taught us anything, it’s that there may never have been a more challenging time to make that leap of faith into the pro ranks.
Palmerston Golf and Country Club will host the sixth edition of the much-loved ISPS Handa PGA Tour of Australasia championship when it returns to the top end from August 19-22.
The rising stars, the first women confirmed into the championship from March 11-14 at Pelican Waters on the Sunshine Coast, have both taken huge steps in their golf careers in the past year.
The innovative new series, developed by the PGA Tour of Australasia and the WPGA Tour of Australasia, forms part of the ISPS Handa PGA Tour of Australasia and has been a resounding success following the first event in January.
Winner of the 2017 Morobe Open in Papua New Guinea, Wood posted 20-under and then had to watch and wait as the final group all chased the eagle that would have forced a playoff.
This year’s WA PGA Championship is not an official PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit event due to the border restrictions, but it has still attracted the best and brightest talent currently in Western Australia.
It means fans will have the ability to see the Australian PGA Championship played twice in a calendar year, with the 2021 edition also to be staged later that year.
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