Golf News and Views with a uniquely Australasian perspective / MC Services
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30/10/2024
The involvement of highly credentialed Cam Smith in this week's Queensland PGA Championship adds a new dimension to the PGA Tour of Australasia's mid-level event.
Smith will, however, face several of Australasia's next wave of potentially successful professional golfers and the battle between one of the world's best and those aspiring to be will be of much interest.
The final stages of this week's penultimate PGA Tour Champions event of the season would see several Australians fighting to reach the final 36 in the Schwab Cup standings to make the Charles Schwab Cup Championship in two week's time.
Rookie Cameron Percy (pictured) just scrapped through in 36th place
New Zealand's Nick Voke (pictured) and Australian Maverick Antcliff have both advanced their cause in terms of Asian Tour standing with a share of 7th place in the International Series Thailand event over the weekend.
South Australian Jack Buchanan has won his second PGA Tour of Australasia title in just three weeks with a barnstorming finish to the Webex Series SA event at the Wiilunga Golf Club south of Adelaide.
Buchanan won by three over Phoneix Campbell, Corey Lamb and the leading female, Kathryn Norris.
Two New Zealanders, Kerry Mountcastle (pictured) and Jake Meenhorst lead the PGA Tour of Australasia's Webex Series South Australia event at the halfway stage.
David Bransdon's 3rd place finish in a Champions Tour event in Virginia this morning could not have come at a better time.
The 50-year-old Victorian needed a good week to graduate to the second of the playoff events but got something significantly better and has now kept open the possibility of advancing to the Tour Championship in two week's time.
New Zealand's Ben Campbell continues to quietly but successfully about his business on the Asian Tour. This weekend, he secured a share of fourth place at the Black Mountain Classic in Thailand.
The finish now has Campbell in second place on both the Asian Tour and the International Series Order of Merit with several events still to play this year.
The WA Open has reached the halfway stage at the Mandurah Golf Club south of Perth and Queensland's Zachary Maxwell is the surprise leader after opening rounds of 63 an 66.
The 2024 PGA Tour Champions has reached the playoff stage and a massive eleven Australasians have qualified to play the first of the playoffs in Richmond Virginia this week.
Queensland's Brad Kennedy has struggled for much of the 2024 Japan Golf Tour season but a return to form at this week's event in Hyogo Prefecture where he finished in a share of 3rd place is timely given the events that lie ahead for him.
New Zealand's Ryan Fox needed a few good finishes over the final few events of the 2024 PGA Tour to be guaranteed of retaining his status for next season and his 11th-place finish in Jackson Mississippi this morning has aided his cause.
China has moved clear as the winner of the most Asia Pacific Amateur Championship titles following the win by 19-year-old Wenyi Ding in Japan today.
The win takes China to five victories one clear of Australia and Japan's four.
New Zealand's Cooper Moore led the Australasians this week when he finished in a share of 8th, the best of a rather disappointing showing by the Australians being Phoenix Campbell who finished 13th.
The weather-delayed Asia Pacific Amateur Championship in Gotemab south of Tokyo was able to complete round two on Saturday morning and New Zealand 16-year-old Cooper Moore (pictured) leads the 12-strong Australasian contingent into round three.
Moore is in a share of 6th place and three from the lead.
Victorian Cameron John (seen below in a file photo) is a surprise second-round leader of the lucrative Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland.
Taking advantage of an invite via his standing on last season's PGA Tour of Australasia, John followed up his round of 62 at Kingsbarns yesterday with a round of 68 at St Andrews Old Course today which included a triple bogey.
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