Future locations for the Australian PGA Championship are uncertain, with Royal Queensland set to relinquish hosting rights for at least the next few years.
For all the eclectic ingredients this BMW Australian PGA Championship has offered up for three days, the most compelling of all is the complete absence of any certainty in the outcome.
Some of Australian golf’s biggest names in Adam Scott and Min Woo Lee backed Cameron Smith to bounce back from a horror run of form after the former major winner missed the cut at his home event, the Australian PGA at Royal Queensland.
A day after recording a hole-in-one, New Zealand’s Kazuma Kobori carded a sensational 63 to upstage big names such as former champions Min Woo Lee and Adam Scott on day two at the Australian PGA, before darkness suspended play Friday at Royal Queensland.
Cameron Smith was devastated and longed to restore his major-winning form of 2022 after enduring another missed cut, this time at the Australian PGA Championship in tough scenes at Royal Queensland.
Tour pro Daniel Gale predicted he would make a hole-in-one the night before bagging a spectacular ace that came with a $286,000 BMW during the opening round of the DP World Tour’s Australian PGA Championship.
World No.418 Sebastian Garcia blitzed the Royal Queensland layout in seven-under-par for the 15 holes he completed in the afternoon wave before storms halted play early.
Approaching 100 consecutive majors next year, Adam Scott says his body is limber enough to hang with the young studs of modern golf but the former world No.1 would love an Australian victory over the next fortnight to prove it.
Among the latest starters are Denmark’s Rasmus Neergard-Petersen, Korea’s Jungwhan Lee, Japan’s Yuto Katsuragawa, English trio Alex Fitzpatrick, Eddie Pepperell and Andrew “Beef” Johnston, Italy’s Renato Paratore, Austria’s Bernd Wiesberger, Spaniard Rafa Cabrera-Bello, Thailand’s Kiradech Aphibarnrat and China’s Wenyi Ding.
Major winner Cameron Smith believes LIV Golf’s move from 54 to 72 holes will help him rediscover his best form after returning home to Brisbane ahead of this month’s BMW Australian PGA Championship.
Australian Golf Digest
