TPS Hunter Valley joins TPS Victoria and TPS Sydney as part of the Webex Players Series, which is a feature of the ISPS Handa PGA Tour of Australasia and WPGA Tour of Australasia schedules.
The recently re-designed Nudgee Golf Club will appear on the ISPS Handa PGA Tour of Australasia schedule for the first time in the club’s history as the new home of the Queensland PGA Championship.
A stronger field and a greater certainty of proceeding are the driving forces behind the decision of tournament organisers to delay the 102nd staging of the New Zealand Open at the Millbrook Resort near Queenstown.
The NT PGA will now take place from September 16-19 provided that the majority of professionals have the opportunity to travel to the Northern Territory to compete.
The innovative format will see 132 players tee it up on the Thursday with the top 50 and ties to make the 36-hole cut. After 54 holes, the top 24 will advance to the final round of matchplay on the Sunday.
As was the format earlier this year, the Legends course will host the first two rounds of the championship with the Peter Thomson-designed Open course – host to the 2003 and 2005 Australian Opens – to determine the champion over the final two rounds.
The battle for the time-honoured Stonehaven Cup, one of world golf’s oldest trophies, will take place at The Australian Golf Club in Sydney from November 25-28.
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.
A three-time winner on the Asian Tour – two of which came in consecutive weeks in 2004 – Pilkadaris has regularly featured on Australasian leaderboards without ever ending the week as the one on top.
The ISPS Handa PGA Tour of Australasia will forge ahead with its seven-event schedule to start the new year despite the ongoing border uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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