David Bransdon today remained calm as his playing partners challenged him in a major way at the Isuzu Queensland Open.

Starting the final round two shots clear of the field, Bransdon opened with a staggering 11 straight pars while his playing partners were lighting up the golf course.

Fellow Victorian Michael Choi was the first to make a move on his lead, finding a birdie on the fourth hole and then soon taking the outright lead.

But it was Rohan Blizard who really blitzed the Brookwater course and his playing partners going an incredible 4-under in two holes.

Teeing off on the 8^th hole Blizard was two shots back of Choi and Bransdon but an eagle soon saw him draw level.

He went on to hole out on the 9^th to record incredible back-to-back eagles and go two shots clear of his playing partners.

"I hit a really good 3 wood on a par-5 for two into about 8 feet and holed the putt for eagle so that kind of kick started my round and gave me some confidence," said Blizard.

"Then on 9 I hit a good tee shot, it was the perfect yardage with a lob wedge and somehow it went into the hole."

"I hit it straight at the flag, one bounce and it went straight in the hole," added Blizard.

"That’s something that doesn’t happen very often, two eagles in a row so that got me in a good position heading into the back-9."

Stating that patience isn’t one of his virtues, all Bransdon could do was watch on and marvel at his playing partners and trust that his own skill would soon see him shooting in the red for the round.

"I am pretty proud of the way I played today and the way I hung in there when Roh was doing all his business on the front-9, with holing shots and chipping in," said Bransdon.

"I was trying to stay patient, that’s my new mantra, stay patient, because it’s not exactly been my forte."

"So I said, ‘you’re hitting it great, you’re giving yourself chances you will hole one eventually’ and that’s what I just kept telling myself."

Bransdon’s patience paid off and his first birdie came at the par-4 12th hole by which time Choi had dropped off the pace making it a two horse race between Bransdon and Blizard.

At the end of the regulation 72 hole play the pair couldn’t be separated, each having fired 12-under 276, a new scoring record while the tournament has been played at Brookwater Golf and Country Club.

Playing the par-4 18^th hole sudden death Bransdon knew it was going to come down to the all important putter with neither player hitting their approach shots into the green particularly close.

"We were hitting nice drives every time so it was pretty much going to come down to a putt, that’s what I thought anyway," added Bransdon. 

"We weren’t exactly stumping it in really close, Rohan hit the closest shot in the last playoff hole and unfortunately missed it but I guess that’s basically how playoffs work really."

Taking three trips down 18, Bransdon finally sunk a birdie putt, the feeling of winning his third tournament on the PGA Tour of Australasia obviously incredible for the Victorian who had already gone close this season.

"I am shaking like a leaf, it’s unbelievable, it’s been a couple of years since my last win but I am pretty proud of the way I played today," added Bransdon, who finished runner-up at the New Zealand Open in March.

"It’s always great for a win, they are even better the older you get and I am not getting any younger, so it’s nice to be rewarded for the good play that I have shown over the last couple of years."

While it was the perfect finish for Bransdon it wasn’t the outcome that Blizard had hoped for but he was gracious in defeat.

"Obviously disappointed because I kind of had a feeling that I was going to win today, just after having 5-under the last two days and then when I made two eagles it’s going to be my day today," said Blizard who was 15-under for his last three rounds.

"The 18^th is a tough hole to birdie so Dave making birdie is a great score on that hole and unluckily I just missed my putt , I hit it right where I was aiming it just broke more that I thought, that’s just the way it goes."

But what might haunt Blizard for a long time is how the story could have turned out differently if not for an unfortunately located leaf on the 12^th.

"I hit a terrible drive, I came out of it and hit it way right, I saw it hit the tree and it went almost out of bounds, I was happy when I was walking up there and I could see the ball," added Blizard.

"But it was lying next to a tree that had been cut down and I didn’t have much of a shot."

"There was another twig sitting next to my ball which I had to move, to be able to actually make contact with the ball, so I tried to move it and moved one of them and then a little leaf moved just near my ball and it made the ball move just a couple of dimples, just oscillated a little."

In a great display of sportsmanship, Blizard who was leading the tournament at the time called a penalty on himself despite spectators believing his ball had not in fact moved.

"In a situation like that you think did it actually move? But you’re not quite sure," said Blizard

"I called Swanno (Russell Swanson, a Tour Rules Official) over; it’s not actually in its original position which means it a one shot penalty."

From there I still had a difficult shot, I hit a really good shot to get up near the green, somehow managed to chip in for a par."

"I guess that’s kind of karma or the golfing gods, you were meant to do that sort of thing."

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