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Queensland’s Douglas Klein has won the Breakas Beach Resort Vanuatu Virginia Pro-Am at Virginia Golf Club with a score of 7-under 64.

Published - 3 weeks By - Golf Australia All the themes to find the Isuzu Queensland Open winner this week have been enacted since a tournament of rich history was rebooted in 2013. The tournament has been a wonderful kick-start as the first victory in a professional tournament for Brett Coletta (2016) and defending champion Anthony Quayle (2020).  This week, think Deyen Lawson, Dylan Perry, James Marchesani, Sunshine Coast local Shae Wools-Cobb, Players Series Sydney runner-up Charlie Dan...

Published - 1 month It’s been a generation since there’s been a multiple Queensland Open winner. And on a trophy as storied as the T.B. Hunter Cup, that’s historically odd given some of Australian golf’s greatest names – Greg Norman, David Graham, Ossie Pickworth, Kel Nagle, Norman Von Nida and Jim Ferrier, just to name a few – are engraved multiple times. But not since Terry Price won his state Open for a second time in 1995 at Windaroo has it happened in the modern era. Andrew Do...

Richard Backwell took out the Maroochy River Legends Pro-Am. Golf Peter Owen Premium Content Subscriber only Though it’s much more casual than the usual professional golf tours – players are allowed to wear shorts, for example, and ride in carts – Australia’s Legends Tour still abides by some longstanding traditions. One is that winners must wear long pants at the presentation. And that presented a problem for Richard Backwell, whose round of four u...

Published - 2 months By - Tony Webeck A mindset shift that saw him shake off a triple bogey brought about by hitting the wrong ball on Thursday has propelled Victorian Zach Murray into contention midway through the second round of the Victorian PGA Championship at the Moonah Links Resort. Dire weather predictions failed to come to fruition for those out early with a strengthening breeze the only defence to the low scoring that has dominated the first two days, lightning in the area and rain f...