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Cisco Webex has become the inaugural presenting partner of The Players Series (TPS), a new and innovative series of tournaments that sees Australia’s leading male and female golf professionals, together with elite amateur junior golfers, compete in the same field for the same prize purse.
This series, developed by the PGA Tour of Australasia and the WPGA Tour of Australasia, forms part of the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia and has been a resounding success following the inaugural event in January, The Player Series – Victoria, at the Rosebud Country Club.
Cisco Webex will present the second edition of TPS in Sydney which will be held at Bonnie Doon Golf Club from 4-7 March 2021. The series embraces hybrid sports – bridging in-person interactions with digital connections through Cisco Webex.
“Cisco Webex is about bringing everyone together to deliver exceptional collaboration experiences and this couldn’t align more closely to our vision for the series, which sees women and men from professional, and elite amateur junior golf, come together in a series of televised golf events,” said Michael McDonald, Commercial Director of the PGA of Australia.
“The involvement of Cisco Webex shows their commitment to innovation and the immersion of technology in sport and golf, and we are thrilled to have them join the PGA community.”
Today’s announcement builds on Cisco’s existing commitments using technology to drive innovation, inspiration and inclusive participation in golf.
“Cisco is excited to work together with the PGA community in Australia, and The Player Series provides an opportunity to advance inclusivity in sport. Cisco’s is committed to supporting promising and diverse athletes, to help grow the game and inspire a new generation of golf fans and players through innovation and technology.
We look forward to supporting the PGA as they integrate Cisco Webex into professional sport, leading a new wave of opportunities to enhance the experience for athletes, organisers, fans and sponsors,” said Peter Self, General Manager of Collaboration, Cisco Australia & New Zealand.
Through this new partnership, Cisco Webex becomes a Major Partner of the PGA of Australia via The Players Series.
The Players Series, presented by Cisco Webex, is anticipated to grow rapidly over the coming years with more tournaments expected to be announced for the 2021/22 tour season.
The Players Series – Sydney, presented by Cisco Webex, will be held at the Bonnie Doon Golf Club from 4-7 March with free entry to spectators on all days.
The tournament will also be televised live through Fox Sports, Kayo and SkyNZ on Saturday 6 March and Sunday 7 March. Check local guides for broadcast times.
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About The Players Series:
TPS is a mixed tournament concept that sees men and women professionals compete in the same field using scaled tees for a share of the one prizemoney pool. In addition, 25 talented juniors will join the professionals for the final two rounds, competing in The Junior Players Series in a professional environment.
Aaron Wilkin has claimed the Dubbo Regional Open in a dominant display of golf at Dubbo Golf Club.
The Queenslander carded back-to-back rounds of 7-under 65 to cruise to a three-shot win from in-form Queenslander Charlie Dann, who closed with a 66.
Overnight leader Jordan Widdicombe, perhaps feeling some final group pressure, remained in the hunt all day but struggled to convert his chances over the last nine holes until it was too late.
Widdicombe’s closing 1-under par effort was still impressive for a young player unaccustomed to the pressure of professional tournament play.
It was Wilkin, with family roots firmly embedded in the nearby village of Yeoval, who was the man of the moment.
After starting the final round two back, the Queensland gun soon had his nose in front. An eagle on the second was followed with birdies on the 3rd and 4th to get his nose in front. From there, he was never headed.
A second eagle for the day on the ninth saw the lead get out to three, and despite a withering challenge from Daniel Gale, and towards the end, Charlie Dann, three more birdies and just one bogey (on the 11th) was enough for Wilkin to claim an emphatic victory.
“I played pretty well to be honest. The hole out on two always helps,”
“I had a chip on the 14th, I mean, I had a little bit of luck, but I played well,” Wilkin smiled post-round.
Wilkin admitted he felt comfortable in the final group, aware of what the overnight leader was doing while remaining conscious of the scores of those in front.
“I knew what he (Jordan) was shooting, and I knew what other guys were shooting too. The course was set up to go low.
“It’s good, but bad too. You have to concentrate on what others are shooting. I just tried to do my own thing to be honest.”
The win came in front of a good-sized gallery, something Wilkin said was great to experience after the restrictions of COVID and in no small part to the Yoeval connection of his grandmother.
“It was good. I didn’t know all of them, but a lot were Nan’s family and friends. I left here when I was ten, so it’s been a long time.
“To do it in front of Nan too, that was special. She’s had me in Yeoval for the week, so I’m pretty happy.”
The win also guaranteed Wilkin a place in the NSW Open.
“Jordan (Widdicombe) said Concord is in great shape, and I’m ready to push this win into that one.”
Although a small consolation, Widdicombe’s finish did guarantee his place in the 2021 NSW Open at his workplace, Concord. Also qualifying for the NSW Open was Troy Moses, whose closing 6-under 66 was enough for a tie for 5th and the third and final place for next month’s championship.
In-form Victorian pair Ryan McCarthy and James Marchesani have joined Justin Warren at the top of the leaderboard midway through the second round of the Moonah Links PGA Classic at the Moonah Links Open Course.
Players were greeted by perfect conditions on Wednesday morning to begin their second rounds with the gentle breeze fading to give the afternoon groups the perfect opportunity to make their moves up the leaderboard.
The mark they are chasing at present is 8-under par, Warren’s 3-under 69 and a pair of 5-under 67s from McCarthy and Marchesani lifting them to the top alongside overnight leader John Lyras, who is 2-under through seven holes of his second round.
Out of the game for two years after suffering nerve aggravation following a double hernia operation in 2017, McCarthy was prominent at the halfway mark of last week’s Vic PGA but struggled when the tournament moved across to the Open Course, using the day between events on Monday to devise a new approach to a course that has not been kind to him in the past.
“It’s just an enormous golf course that seems to beat me up,” said McCarthy, who was tied for eighth at The Players Series Victoria two weeks ago.
“I sat down Monday feeling a bit miserable about the weekend and thought that someone’s going to shoot 66 around there, how do you do it? How do you break it down?
“There are two short par-4s on each side, there are four par 5s, I’m hitting it well so it was a practice session on Monday and a change in mindset about the whole course.
“I’ve been playing quite solid the past four weeks. I’ve been hitting it really nicely and it’s just nice to see a few of the putts drop in now. I played the par 5s a lot better today than I have in some other sloppier rounds.”
An eagle and two birdies in his final four holes led to a rapid rise for Marchesani while Warren had to call on his days of playing college golf in America for South Mountain Community College and the University of Arkansas to grind out a round of 2-under 69.
“Bit of a frustrating day,” Warren conceded. “Bogey-free round of 69 could quite easily have been a lot worse if I didn’t do what I did on the front nine but could have been a hell of a lot better if I’d holed a few putts on the back.
“I do my absolute best to never give up on a round and a little bit of that has to do with the college background, playing college team golf over in America. We play 54-hole tournaments and if you have a bad first day you can’t throw in the towel and give up.
“You’ve still got your teammates relying on you to produce some scores over the next couple of days so the team can have a good chance at winning the golf tournament.
“Regardless of how bad I start or whatever I do to stick to whatever I’ve been working on, keep grinding and eventually that little amazing stretch of holes could start at any moment.”
Just 10 days out of hotel quarantine having returned from spending the past five months in America, Wollongong’s Travis Smyth gathered confidence with the putter in round one and cashed in on Wednesday morning to be one shot off the lead following a round of 5-under 67.
“I hit it OK last week (at the Vic PGA) but my putting was terrible,” said Smyth.
“I kept saying to myself that missing the cut might have been a blessing in disguise because it gave me two days to just go and work on it. I practiced my putting a lot and the last two days I’ve been putting nicely. I feel like I’m back to normal.
“It was a pretty solid two-club wind yesterday and I was hitting a lot of fairways, hitting a lot of greens, putted it pretty nicely.
“I had a few testy par putts that I holed to bring the confidence up and it was just really solid. I was very much looking forward to coming out today and the weather turned out perfect.”
Advice from two-time Australian Open champion Matt Jones and a putting tip from Order of Merit leader Brad Kennedy has positioned Sydney’s Justin Warren to contend for a tournament breakthrough yet again at the Moonah Links PGA Classic at Moonah Links.
The morning groups had less wind to contend with on the Open Course for Tuesday’s opening round and as such dominate the top of the leaderboard, another Sydneysider John Lyras in front by a stroke after a bogey-free 66 from a group of five players at 5-under.
Like Lyras, Kiwis Michael Hendry and Daniel Hillier and Queenslander Maverick Antcliff took advantage of the calmer conditions in the morning to shoot 67 in their first rounds with Warren and fellow New South Welshman Robert Hogan joining them in a tie for second with the equal best scores of the afternoon, Hogan keeping a clean card with his five birdies coming at one, four, seven, 10 and 18.
Confident from his first made cut as a professional a fortnight ago at The Players Series Victoria, Lyras went bogey-free across his opening 18 holes, describing his six birdies as “fairly commercial”.
“I just had to stay really patient and put the ball in the right spots all day,” said Lyras, who finished tied for 17th at Rosebud Country Club.
“I didn’t really leave myself any hard up-and-downs either, even though I had to chip out a few times and wedge up and get up-and-down from the fairway a few times.
“They were real momentum builders. It was just really nice to get that round in the books and keep it clean for the most part.”
The 36-hole leader of the Victorian PGA Championship also played at Moonah Links last week, Warren dropped to a tie for fifth by weekend’s end, his third top-five finish on the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia since turning professional midway through 2019.
He knows that each time he contends in a tournament he is a step closer to that maiden victory and has sought the advice from proven performers to fast-track his own development.
Sharing a coach in PGA Professional Gary Barter, the 25-year-old texted Jones as he slept on the 54-hole lead at the NSW Open in 2019 and has sought the counsel of Kennedy the past week for ways to improve his putting performance.
“Being in contention is a great feeling,” said Warren, who rose to a career-high of 825 in the world on the back of his Vic PGA result.
“It’s always awesome to be up there in those last couple of groups on Saturday and Sunday, it’s simply working out a bit better game plan for when I get into certain situations where I may need to step away and think about the shots that I’m going to be hitting.
“The night before the last round of the NSW Open in 2019 I was struggling to get to sleep because I had so much adrenaline and was just wanting to go out and compete but I didn’t know what to do with that because it was 10 o’clock at night and I’m trying to get a good night’s rest.
“I sent Matt a text and asked what I should do and he said just to treat it like any other day. Don’t hype the situation up any more than what it is, you’re simply going back out there to play another round of golf.
“It’s so simple but it’s stuck with me because the more you treat golf and competition anything bigger than what it really is, you can really spin yourself out a little and blow it out of proportion.
“I was even speaking to Brad Kennedy on the putting green last week and this week with regards to some stuff with my putting and just getting better. Being able to speak to him for 15 minutes on the putting green is something that I appreciate very much and always look forward to, learning from guys who have been there and done it over the years.
“Since turning pro I have managed to get myself into contention quite a few times in some big events and the more you can put yourself in that position, the more comfortable you become.
“It’s a numbers game. Eventually you’re going to get over the line and get one done and when you do, it’s a hurdle that you get over and you become even more comfortable when you are in that position again.”
After giving himself the day off on Monday Warren made a somewhat shaky start to his first round with a bogey at the par-4 11th but after making the turn at even par picked up five birdies on his back nine to be within one of the lead.
“I took a day off yesterday so I was a bit shaky down 10 and made a bogey on 11 but after that I got into a bit of a groove,” said Warren, who sank a 30-footer for birdie on his final hole.
“I didn’t really miss too many shots and when I did I missed in the right spots.
“I’ve been a little angry the past couple of days from not quite executing on Saturday and Sunday but we’re out here playing again, it’s an awesome feeling and I’m just grateful. And that’s a nice feeling to have when you’re out there playing.”
One player who had no problem making a fast start was three-time China Golf Tour winner Maverick Antcliff, a brand new Titleist TSi3 driver that he had fitted on Monday having an instantly positive impact.
“It took care of itself. I could just aim where I wanted to and hit it as hard as I wanted which was nice,” said Antcliff of his equipment upgrade.
“The fitting I had previously was just out of my two-week quarantine when I came back from Europe so I probably wasn’t swinging it the best.
“I like to see the ball move left to right so I was just looking for something with less torque and a head that didn’t spin as much on the mis-hits. It looked good yesterday but then seeing what it did on course it matched up nicely.”
Justin Warren is three strokes clear following a mid-round rampage that netted an eagle and five consecutive birdies at a weather-affected Victorian PGA Championship at Moonah Links.
Warren is 15-under after closing round two 8-under the card in an almost unblemished performance that catapulted the young gun clear of Michael Sim, Victorian Terry Pilkadaris and Josh Clarke.
Meanwhile, Pilkadaris avoided an early wake-up call on Saturday morning after racing the daylight to take a share of the lead in a second round twice disrupted by thunderstorms at the Victorian PGA Championship at the Moonah Links Resort on Friday.
With close to three-and-a-half hours of play lost due to rain and thunderstorms on Friday afternoon, 30 players returned to the Legends Course from 7.30am this morning to complete their second rounds before those who make the cut move across to the Open Course for the final two rounds.
Pilkadaris joined Michael Sim (66) at the top of the leaderboard at 12-under par with a second round of 7-under 65, racing through the final holes with help from playing partner Jason Norris to avoid an early start Saturday.
“I didn’t want to have to come back in the morning at 7.30 to play one hole and then wait around to tee off again at 12.30,” said Pilkadaris, who shot 65 in the final round of The Players Series Victoria last week to finish tied for sixth.
“Jason Norris missed the cut but he asked what I wanted to do and I said, ‘Let’s go. Let’s get through.’
“Steve Jeffress was in front of us and he told us to hit so we played the last hole with them, which was nice of them. The last three holes were a par 5, medium par 4 and long par 4 and I reckon we played them in 20 minutes.”
Sim and Pilkadaris finished third and fourth respectively at the 2009 Moonah Classic played on the Open Course and Sim is excited to reacquaint himself with a layout that set the tone for a breakout year.
“I haven’t played it since the Moonah Classic,” said the 36-year-old, who would earn promotion to the PGA TOUR via his three-win season on the Nationwide Tour in 2009.
“I played it a little bit when I was in the AIS golf program so I do know my way around the golf course quite well so definitely looking forward to it.
“I probably need to hit a few more cleaner iron shots out there than on the Legends Course but happy to be in a good position for the next two days and looking forward to the weekend.
“It’s a much bigger test out there with a greater premium on your ball-striking and with the wind forecasted for the weekend it’s still anyone’s tournament.”
Now based on the Gold Coast and completing his PGA of Australia bridging course to continue teaching at Lakelands Golf Club, Sim made his return to tournament golf at last week’s Players Series event where he finished tied for 28th.
“That was probably the first time I’ve played four rounds of golf in 10 months. Competitive golf anyway,” said Sim, who was runner-up to close friend Aaron Pike at the 54-hole NT PGA last October.
“I had some nice rounds and felt like if I missed a green I didn’t get up and down or threw in a silly three-putt.
“It wasn’t terrific but I made the cut and managed to put four rounds together. You need to play tournament golf to know what you’ve got to work on.”
With fond memories of his own of his performance at the Moonah Classic more than a decade ago, Pilkadaris conceded that changing courses adds a new dimension to the final two rounds.
“The Open Course plays differently because it’s a completely different golf course,” said Pilkadaris, still chasing a maiden ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia title.
“I played a nine-hole practice round out there on Wednesday and the greens were quicker. It’s a whole different dynamic.”
Thursday’s early leader Josh Clarke has five holes left to play in his second round and sits one shot off the lead at 11-under along with Blake Windred (69), James Marchesani (69) and Aaron Wilkin (70).
Zach Murray’s 7-under 65 matched Pilkadaris and Matt Millar for the equal best round of the day and places him in a five-way tie for seventh at 10-under alongside round one leader Cameron John (72), Anthony Quayle (69), Justin Warren (3-under through 13) and Damien Jordan (5-under through 10).
Central Coast’s Dimi Papadatos looked set to take a two-shot lead into the third round after reaching 14-under but struck disaster on the par-3 16th, hitting two tee shots out of bounds on his way to a seven and a two-round total of 9-under par.
Round two of the Victorian PGA Championship is underway on the Legends Course at Moonah Links on the stunning Mornington Peninsula.
Co-leaders Cameron John and Dimi Papadatos are expecting the Moonah Links Legends Course to bite back hard after players used benign conditions to plunder birdies and eagles in round one of the Victorian PGA Championship on Thursday.
New South Welshman Josh Clarke shot to prominence when he established a new course record of 9-under 63 in the morning wave but with a rare calm day placing the course at their mercy John and Papadatos set a new benchmark with matching rounds of 10-under 62.
Queensland’s Aaron Wilkin closed with consecutive birdies to join Clarke in a tie for third at 9-under with David McKenzie, Blake Windred and James Marchesani all a shot further back after posting 8-under 64 in their opening rounds.
A member at both Commonwealth Golf Club in Melbourne and more recently Peninsula-Kingswood, John has extensive experience playing the courses of the Mornington Peninsula and conceded that the conditions for scoring on Thursday could not have been better.
And that the predicted forecast for Friday was unavoidable.
Heavy rain, strong winds and possible thunderstorms are all expected but John says good scoring will still be possible for those who approach it in the right manner.
“Today’s conditions were as good as it will ever get down here,” said John, whose best score in an ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia-sanctioned event is 11-under 60 in the 2018 Morobe Open in Papua New Guinea.
“It wasn’t windy so it was a matter of just looking at the holes and if you put a decent swing on it it’s not going to move off line.
“(Bad weather) is bound to happen once probably every week you come down here. If you come down here for a week one day’s going to be bad. You’ve just got to grin and bear it and hold onto your hat as much as you can.
“I’m sure the scores won’t be as good tomorrow but if I hit it as solid as I did today it’s always an opportunity to shoot a really good number.”
Papadatos opened the Gippsland Super 6 tournament a fortnight ago with a 6-under 66 and used an eagle at his opening hole – the par-5 ninth – to get into stride quickly at Moonah Links.
“I knew the scoring was good so I was aware that even though I was probably 5-under pretty early I needed to keep pushing on from there,” said Papadatos, who set up his opening eagle by hitting 3-iron from 215 metres to 10 feet.
“It’s a good position to be in but I still had a lot of opportunities so I wanted to make the most of my round.
“I made quite a few birdies going out and then I had the easier nine coming in so I wanted to make sure I made the most of it to finish off the round.”
With a previous tournament best of 64, the Central Coast native took a moment prior to playing his final approach shot to sharpen his focus on a rare opportunity.
“I was in the middle of the fairway on the last and thought, Geez it would be nice to birdie this because I haven’t had 10-under before,” said the 2017 Vic Open champion.
“I stepped back away from it and thought about hitting it in there close and hit a good one in there to eight feet and rolled it in.
“I think my best score in a tournament before today was 64 so this is something different for me.”
David McKenzie had to be convinced by his wife to play a practice round at all on Wednesday and skipping two holes didn’t affect him, the 2013 Vic PGA champion making birdie at both the 13th and 14th holes in his round of 64.
“I made a few nice putts, that was the big thing,” said McKenzie.
“I made a six-footer on the first and the second hole I drove it onto the front edge of the green and putted it almost off the other side of the green and then holed a 20-footer coming back.
“Ultimately I made a lot of putts in the 15-20 foot range and that’s how you have your low rounds.”
Novocastrian Blake Windred was on his way to posting a round that would have positioned him mid-field until an eagle at the par-5 sixth and birdies at seven and eight elevated him to within two shots of the lead.
“My caddy, Jack Pountney, with three holes to go he told me there was a score of 9 in when I was at 4,” said Windred.
“We kind of recognised that we needed a couple more birdies and then I made eagle at six, hit it to a foot from 85 metres on the next and then holed an 18-footer on the last across the slope.
“He gave me a nudge to make me realise that 5 or 6-under wasn’t going to be that good today. It actually helped me a lot and made me go into that last hole trying to finish off with a couple of birdies.”
A total of 31 players began their Vic PGA campaigns with rounds of 5-under or better including last week’s winner at The Players Series Brad Kennedy, who recorded two eagles for the second round in succession in a 6-under 66.
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Past heartaches including a Moonah Links near miss are driving local hope Terry Pilkadaris to earn a breakthrough ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia title at this week’s Victorian PGA Championship.
To be conducted concurrently with the Celebrity Amateur Challenge, the Victorian PGA is the first of two consecutive events at Moonah Links, the Legends Course and Open Course both in use this week with the Open Course assuming sole hosting rights for the Moonah Classic the following week.
It was on the Open Course 12 years ago that Pilkadaris came up just short at the Moonah Classic that for three years was co-sanctioned with the secondary US Nationwide Tour.
A three-time winner on the Asian Tour – two of which came in consecutive weeks in 2004 – Pilkadaris has regularly featured on Australasian leaderboards without ever ending the week as the one on top.
In 2011 he was runner-up in three consecutive events on the Australasian Tour but it was the 2018 New Zealand Open that cuts deepest.
Taking a five-stroke lead into Sunday, a final round 70 wasn’t enough to hold off a stunning 62 by Queenslander Daniel Nisbet, a defeat that remains difficult for the 47-year-old to stomach to this day.
“The New Zealand Open hurt the most,” Pilkadaris admitted.
“I was leading by five and just didn’t get it done on Sunday. That one hurt the most out of the lot.
“I’ve had four or five runner-ups in Australia as well, there was three in a row at one stage back in 2011.
“I know I can win, it’s just a matter of putting it all together. The putting was holding me back so now it looks like we’ve turned the corner with the putting.”
Ahead of a two-week stint at Moonah Links Pilkadaris also reflected on the 2009 Moonah Classic where he finished tied for fourth, four strokes back of fellow Victorian Alistair Presnell.
“I regret two tee shots. One tee shot on Saturday and one tee shot on Sunday, that cost me the event there,” he added.
Tied for third prior to the match play section of the Gippsland Super 6 event, Pilkadaris returned the next best score to amateur Elvis Smylie’s 8-under 63 on Sunday to finish tied for seventh at The Players Series Victoria.
With the rust knocked off and an adjusted putting stroke that elusive first win may be closer than ever before.
“You’ve got to knock the rust off first. We played a couple of pro-ams and I felt like my wedge play and pitching wasn’t that great so I contacted Tim Wood,” said Pilkadaris, of Wood who was named Coach of the Year at the Victorian PGA Vocational Awards announcement in December.
“He gave me a suggestion and then all of a sudden the pitching and chipping started to come really good. It was just a matter of connecting the dots with the putting which we’ve done and off we go.
“I went to claw putting inside 10 feet and that’s made a big difference. I started that (at Gippsland Super 6).
“After the first hole at Yallourn I had a 10-footer left-to-right and hit it off the toe and went left and I thought, I’m over this. I went to the claw and was rolling it nicely.”
Brad Kennedy is backing up from his victory at The Players Series and there are seven former Vic PGA champions in the field in 2019 champion Campbell Rawson, Aaron Pike (2018), Damien Jordan (2017), two-time winner Ashley Hall (2007 and 2016), Aaron Townsend (2015), David McKenzie (2013) and Steven Jeffress (2006).
Other former Victorian PGA champions include Peter Thomson, Kel Nagle, Bruce Devlin, American Lanny Wadkins, Rodger Davis, Peter Senior, Stuart Appleby and Marc Leishman.
Brad Kennedy has won the inaugural The Players Series Victoria hosted by Geoff Ogilvy with a spectacular final score of 17-under 267 at Rosebud Country Club.
Kennedy won by one shot over amateur star Elvis Smylie in second place with a total of 16-under. A second shot to three feet on the last was the winning shot for Kennedy who won the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia tournament with a birdie on the last.
The victory is Kennedy’s 14th professional win, 6th on the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia and second in 12 months following his New Zealand Open in February 2020.
Amateur Jack Holland has won The Junior Players Series Victoria with a final score of 4-under 138.
More to come.
The final round of the inaugural Players Series at Rosebud Country Club is underway, where 2020 NZ Open champion Brad Kennedy leads by two strokes over Nathan Barbieri. Click here for live scores.
