Australian golf legends
including Peter Senior, Peter Fowler, Peter O’Malley, Nick O’Hern and Robert
Allenby are lining up to compete in the 2016 NSW Open Championship.
Australian golf legends
including Peter Senior, Peter Fowler, Peter O’Malley, Nick O’Hern and Robert
Allenby are lining up to compete in the 2016 NSW Open Championship.
"This is a cracking
field of players ready to contest the Kel Nagle Cup," General Manager of Golf –
Golf NSW Graeme Phillipson said.
"It’s going to be a real
treat for fans of the game across NSW."
Queensland’s Peter Senior is
still very much a force on Tour, winning last year’s Australian Masters at
Huntingdale against a stellar field of Australia’s best.
Senior, a 23-time winner on
the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia, has won two Australian Opens, three
Australian Masters, and three Australian PGA Championships in a professional
career that begun in 1978.
The 56-year-old has won the PGA
Tour of Australasia Order of Merit four times and has represented
Australia at the World Cup of Golf. He has just spent the last six years on the
Champions Tour with some success; however he has decided to return home to
concentrate on supporting his home Tour.
Peter Fowler is a former
Australian Open Champion who has a string of international titles to his
credit, including wins on the European Tour and multiple wins on the European
Senior Tour.
Peter O’Malley needs no
introduction to golf fans. The Bathurst legend has three European Tour, two Web.com
Tour and five PGA Tour of Australasia titles to his name. O’Malley is a former
NSW Open Champion and the current Chairman of the PGA of Australia.
Nick O’Hern is a two-time PGA
Tour of Australasia winner. He has been a regular name on the Australian golf
scene for over 20 years now and has reached the top-20 on the Official World Golf
Rankings. He has represented Australia at the World Cup of Golf and twice been
selected for the Presidents Cup.
Victoria’s Robert Allenby is
out to lift the Kel Nagle Cup and add the NSW Open to his resume of victories.
The four-time winner on the PGA TOUR who turned professional in 1992 has
13 wins on home soil including two Australian Opens, two Australian Masters,
and four Australian PGA Championships.
The NSW Open Championship
will be played at Stonecutters Ridge Golf Club from 10-13 November.