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A remarkable back-nine resurgence has seen Darren Beck win the 2019 TX Civil & Logistics WA PGA Championship.
Beck arrested a disastrous opening that had him 3-over the card by the fifth hole at Kalgoorlie Golf Course.
But six birdies on the back-nine, including three in a row from holes 16 to 18, helped the 41-year-old secure his first ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia victory since 2008.
“It feels great. It was a little nerve-wracking five or six holes in,” Beck said.
“There was a big change in scores. I birdied the 12th (hole) and Felts (Jarryd Felton) bogeyed so it quickly turned round. I thought I was playing for second for a while there.
“It just feels good to keep it together and finish the way I did. The putter was just unbelievable so I can’t explain how good that felt.”
Beck experienced a radical transformation on the back-nine. After scoring a front-nine 39 – 3-over par – the New South Welshman came to life with a remarkable 6-under 30 on the final nine holes.
He finished the day 3-under the card with rounds of 68, 67, 68 and 69 for a tournament total of 272 – two shots clear of second-placed Jarryd Felton.
“I think it was hard early in the round because we couldn’t see any leaderboards and it’s hard to know what’s going on. You don’t know whether guys have come up from behind and shot a good score,” he said.
“I had to ask a couple of people what the scores were just to make sure and then I could just play my own game without trying to push it.
“On the last, I didn’t want to push too much once I got to a two-shot lead. I just played a three-shotter to try and make a birdie. It’s a great feeling.”
The two-horse race between Beck and Felton was enthralling. Felton returned to the lead early on the front-nine and dashed out to a three-shot lead at the turn.
But Beck seized on Felton’s bogeys on the 12th and 13th to win his first major crown since the 2009 Brunei Open on the Asian Tour.
Felton said he was pleased with his 14-under performance despite feeling he let an opportunity slip.
“It feels good and you’d take second place at the start of the week but I don’t know how many in front I got there at one point,” Felton said.
“I felt like I had a pretty decent lead but I think Darren had about eight putts on the final nine holes and there’s nothing I could do about that.
“He finished with 6-under for that nine and I shot square but the end result is what it is.
“It shows that my game’s not too far away. It would have been good to get a win but you can do it on these and hopefully get a win at the end of the year.”
Beck and Felton will now go on to play next week’s WA Open at Cottesloe Golf Club on the Ladbrokes Pro-Am Series before competing again on the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia at the 2019 Victorian PGA Championship.
The win sees Beck receive World Golf Ranking Points and full exemption on the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia until the end of 2020.
Former PGA TOUR player Michael Sim secured third place thanks to a final round of 67 and a tournament total of 12-under.
Young-gun Robert Hogan finished fourth at 11-under to secure his best-ever professional result, while Blake Proverbs’ fourth-round 66 shot him into the top five at 10-under.
To view the final results visit pga.org.au.
To view the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit standings visit pga.org.au.
For PGATV highlights visit pga.org.au.
A front-nine surge has helped Darren Beck to a one-shot lead in the penultimate round of the TX Civil & Logistics WA PGA Championship.
Back-to-back birdies saw Beck cut down Jarryd Felton’s three-stoke overnight lead to finish with a round of 4-under 68 – equal best of the day.
“It was good today. It was a bit better ball-striking wise and I holed some nice putts early,” Beck said.
“I gave myself a lot of chances with birdie putts and managed to sneak a couple in on 14 and 15 so I had two good birdies there.
“I haven’t been in this position for a while especially in a tier-two event. It’s great to be in this position and I feel good so I’ll just see what I can do tomorrow.”
Felton relinquished a handy lead following an even-par round of 72. He was one-over through nine holes yet consecutive birdies looked like he had arrested his slump.
But the Perth local faltered with a bogey on 14 to take his total back to 12-under.
“Today was a grind. It was really hard out here, but you can’t be upset with even-par. I’m still in the tournament and am looking forward to tomorrow,” Felton said.
“I’m only one back and as Darren showed, it can all change very quickly. I’m enjoying it out there so we’ll just see what happens.”
Six birdies for Stephen Dartnall helped move the West Australian to third, following a standout 4-under 68 for a 10-under total.
Dartnall, the 2016 WA PGA champion, says a lapse in time spent on the course has surprisingly been beneficial to his performance.
“I haven’t played a lot of golf, let alone social golf. Not relying on golf as an income has let me play with little pressure,” Dartnall said.
“It’s a cliche but I’m playing it one shot at a time.”
Robert Hogan sits in outright fourth place following a steady round of 2-under 70 for a three-round total of 9-under the card, one shot ahead of fellow New South Welshman Jordan Zunic at 8-under.
Experienced campaigner Michael Sim and recently-turned pro Justin Warren remain in contention at 7-under the card in sixth place.
The fourth and final round of the TX Civil & Logistics WA PGA Championship begins at 7:25am AWST at Kalgoorlie Golf Course.
The final round of the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia tournament will be live streamed on PGA TV from 10am AWST on Sunday 13 October.
For round three results and round four visit pga.org.au.
To watch PGA TV visit pga.org.au.
Jarryd Felton has extended his lead at the TX Civil & Logistics WA PGA Championship following a standout second round.
The West Australian holds a three-shot lead heading into moving day after a 5-under 65 performance that took him to the pinnacle of the #WAPGA leaderboard.
Winds once again made for challenging conditions on the exposed fairways of Kalgoorlie Golf Course’s front-nine but it was here that Felton’s game came to life.
“It’s a reward for good play today,” Felton said.
“It got pretty windy out there over the last nine holes but that’s when I got off to a great start on that front-nine.
“Five birdies in a row from 18 through to four really kick-started the round. Before that I was just kind of plodding along at 1-under at the time but I caught fire on that front-nine.”
The 2017 NZ PGA Championship and 2015 NSW PGA Championship victor knows what it takes to win on the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia but insists tomorrow’s 18 holes could be make or break.
“I’ve been in this position before and hopefully I can bring back good memories from the last couple of times I’ve won.
“It’s good to be in the mix again, especially around a course I love and playing well so it’s a good feeling.
“Staying patient with what I can and just hitting quality golf shots will be important. You hit a lot of good golf shots out here that don’t get rewarded and you hit it to some spots that you’ve just got to take your medicine.
“I think I’ve been doing that pretty well so hopefully I can do that on the weekend.”
A hot streak of three straight birdies and an eagle for a round of 5-under elevated Darren Beck to second place on the WA PGA leaderboard after teeing off in the morning of round two.
His early round form from holes one to three went to another level on the 11th but it was the Sydneysider’s putting that had the biggest impact.
“I got off to a good start today so kept the momentum there from yesterday and overall I just played pretty solid.”
“I was just getting around the best I could but I holed some really good putts like 30-footers and 40-footers.”
Two consistent rounds of 68 have seen 24-year-old Justin Warren rocket to contention and hold outright third place ahead of round three.
The recently-turned professional rose to the level of competition, striking an 8-under total.
Overnight joint leader Jordan Zunic remains at 7-under the card after a round of even-par.
He sits alongside Robert Hogan whose rounds of 68 and 69 see him progress to the weekend’s play.
Aussie golf legends Peter Lonard and Brett Rumford remain in the mix at 6-under, alongside Taylor Macdonald, James Marchesani and Stephen Dartnall, who rocketed up the leaderboard with a second round of 65.
The second round cut was made at 1-over with 54 professionals and four amateurs progressing to the final two rounds.
The winner of the TX Civil & Logistics WA PGA Championship come Sunday will receive the lion’s share of the $137,500 prize purse, World Golf Ranking Points as well as exemption onto the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australia until the end of 2020.
Round three of the WA PGA Championship tees off at 7:15am AWST on Saturday morning from Kalgoorlie Golf Course.
To view round two results visit pga.org.au.
For round three tee times visit pga.org.au.
Presidents Cup officials announced today that 12 of the world’s leading golfers with a disability from six different countries will compete in the ISPS HANDA Disabled Golf Cup.
The Friday 13 December event will feature Aussies Tony Coates, Shane Luke, Geoff Nicholas, Cameron Pollard, Stephen Prior and Mike Rolls, and will be staged immediately following the Presidents Cup’s second session of play at The Royal Melbourne Golf Club.
ISPS HANDA, the Official Australian Charity for the Presidents Cup, are long-term advocates for the promotion of blind and disabled golf and will be supporting this event as it is staged at Presidents Cup for the first time.
The ISPS HANDA Disabled Golf Cup will showcase golf’s inclusive design with players sharing the same test as the professional golfers participating in the Presidents Cup.
The ISPS HANDA Disabled Golf Cup will take place across 10 holes of the Composite Course from Nos. 1-4, 11-16 and will mirror the Presidents Cup format on the same tees and same course conditions.
This invitational competition will be golf’s opportunity to showcase the world’s leading players with a disability (WR4GD). The WR4GD is a pan disability ranking system administered jointly by The R&A and USGA through World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR).
“The Presidents Cup is proud to host the world’s top golfers with a disability as they showcase their incredible skills against one another in the ISPS HANDA Disabled Golf Cup, “said Presidents Cup Executive Director Matt Kamienski.
“We can all draw a lot of inspiration from watching these athletes compete and we wish them the best as they put their games to the test on a global scale in front of the top professionals in the game at The Royal Melbourne Golf Club.”
ISPS HANDA has been a leading voice in gathering support for the inclusion of disabled golf in the Paralympics, an initiative that is supported by the PGA TOUR and International Federation of PGA Tours.
To continue to raise awareness of this initiative, ISPS HANDA will also host Blind and Disabled golf exhibitions at the 2020 and 2021 Sentry Tournament of Champions.
“ISPS HANDA is delighted to be the Official Australian Charity of the Presidents Cup and Sponsor of the ISPS HANDA Disabled Golf Cup, taking center stage at the famed Royal Melbourne straight after play by the professionals on Friday,” said Dr. Haruhisa Handa, Founder and Chairman of ISPS HANDA.
The ISPS HANDA Disabled Golf Cup contestants will play in three groups of four, at 10-minute intervals, following play.
Ten of the twelve ISPS HANDA Disabled Golf Cup athletes will compete in Sydney the week before the Presidents Cup in the second-ever Australian All Abilities Championship in conjunction with the Australian Open.
Peter Lonard, Marcus Fraser, David Micheluzzi and Connor Fewkes take on the Kalgoorlie-Boulder Racing Club Golf Challenge!
These guys have never tried to hit a green like this before!
Peter Lonard, Marcus Fraser, David Micheluzzi and Connor Fewkes take on the Kalgoorlie-Boulder Racing Club Golf Challenge!
Kalgoorlie Golf Course is one of the more loved layouts on the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia schedule and after successfully picking the winner at the NT PGA last month, let’s see if I can keep the inside information going here in the gold capital of Australia. Here are the Tour Insider’s picks for […]
Kalgoorlie Golf Course is one of the more loved layouts on the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia schedule and after successfully picking the winner at the NT PGA last month, let’s see if I can keep the inside information going here in the gold capital of Australia. Here are the Tour Insider’s picks for the TX Civil & Logistics WA PGA Championship.
CAMERON JOHN
Fresh from a break from competitive golf and still on a high from his Richmond Tigers winning another premiership, this young guy has more game in his left foot than some of the guys playing this week. I look forward to seeing him back at the top of the leaderboard very soon.
AARON PIKE
TI has been keeping an eye on the King of Crackles’ (KOC) results of late. He had a good first few rounds at the NT PGA and a solid week at the Indonesian Open following that. After finishing second here in 2015 and with a top-five in 2016, it’s safe to say he likes the course as much as a cold beer at the gold bar. Hopefully he can get out of the kitchen and play some golf!
DAVID MICHELUZZI
Hitting the professional ranks this week with a star-studded amateur career under his belt, Australia is waiting to see how good this kid is. Previously ranked as the second-best amateur in the world, this guy definitely has talent. My thoughts? I don’t need to wait; I already know and expect the Jacuzzi to burst onto the scene.
MATT MILLAR
Fresh from holidaying with the family, the man widely known on tour as “rug” is fresh and ready to go. I was going to have him as my main selection this week until the Canberra Raiders managed to lose the grand final. I just hope no one waves their hands to him as he might think its 6 more!
KADE McBRIDE
I’m going to give this bloke another go after a really good effort at Palmerston, where he finished T4 with a TI selection. He has a solid golf game and around a golf course where you have to golf your ball, not just blaze away, I expect another solid showing.
One good week will bring with it even richer rewards than normal as eight Australians endeavor to play their way into the limited field ZOZO Championship at this week’s Bridgestone Open on the Japan Golf Tour. The top three finishers and the leading seven players on the Japan Golf Tour moneylist at the completion of […]
One good week will bring with it even richer rewards than normal as eight Australians endeavor to play their way into the limited field ZOZO Championship at this week’s Bridgestone Open on the Japan Golf Tour.
The top three finishers and the leading seven players on the Japan Golf Tour moneylist at the completion of 72 holes will be granted exemption into the first PGA TOUR event to be played in Japan in two weeks’ time with a purse of $US9.75 million to be distributed between the 78-man field.
Aussie PGA TOUR regulars Jason Day, Adam Scott and Marc Leishman are already confirmed starters in in the star-studded field alongside the likes of Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods, Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, US Open champion Gary Woodland and Open champion Shane Lowry.
A winner earlier in the year at the Token Homemate Cup, Brendan Jones is the highest-ranked Australian on the moneylist in 15th position followed by Matthew Griffin in 18th but they would need to finish in the top two this week to move into the top seven.
Griffin can at least begin the tournament with positive memories of his top-10 finish at the Sodegaura Country Club 12 months ago while in 2016 he was inside the top five following an opening round of 5-under 66.
Tied for seventh at the 2010 Bridgestone Open, Jones skipped the event until 2016 where he again finished inside the top 10 and was tied for 29th last year.
Queenslander Brad Kennedy also finished tied for 29th alongside Jones 12 months ago and was tied for 18th in 2017 in a tournament that was reduced to 36 holes.
Fellow Australians David Bransdon, Adam Bland, Won Joon Lee, Dylan Perry and Anthony Quayle will be hoping to parlay four good rounds into a start in a PGA TOUR event as will Kiwi Michael Hendry.
Since retiring from full-time golf Nick O’Hern is relishing the opportunity to provide up and coming golfers with the tools they need to succeed. Known as Mr Consistency throughout his 20-year career, O’Hern’s approach to course strategy and the mental side of the game, as well as his renowned short-game, have him in high demand […]
Since retiring from full-time golf Nick O’Hern is relishing the opportunity to provide up and coming golfers with the tools they need to succeed.
Known as Mr Consistency throughout his 20-year career, O’Hern’s approach to course strategy and the mental side of the game, as well as his renowned short-game, have him in high demand in his new home in Melbourne.
Appearing as a co-host on the latest episode of The PGA Golf Club, O’Hern spoke about the new direction his career has taken since moving from the US in January.
“I’ve been trying to help some elite players and some young pros and as it turns out, in the last few months, more just the everyday golfer,” O’Hern said.
“It’s more a mentoring role that I take on than a coaching or a technique type thing. I find my strengths lie more in course strategy and the mental side.
“Funnily enough I started out as a teaching pro when I was in my early 20s and I wasn’t good enough to play the game at that point. I then figured out how to play for about 20 years or so and now I’ve come full circle. It’s great to get back into that element and I’m thoroughly enjoying it.”
Throughout his career on the PGA TOUR, O’Hern believed one of the most important things he could do for his own game was to learn from those around him, particularly when he went up against the best in the world.
“I’m probably most well-known in the States for beating Tiger a couple of times,” he said.
“I think it’s good to watch other people and learn from other people. One of my biggest strengths was that I never got consumed by what other guys were doing, especially in matchplay funnily enough.
“To be out-driven by 40 or 50 meters on most holes and not get put off by that is an interesting challenge. But that was my whole career, I was always 30 or 40 meters behind guys but I just thought, well, I know I can’t hit it that far, how can I be better than others?”
“I think for the average golfer out there the best thing is to realise what your strengths are and what your weaknesses are. I knew what I could or couldn’t do so I didn’t try and do things that I shouldn’t and play to them. And play more to your personality.”
To hear Nick O’Hern’s full chat on The PGA Golf Club podcast including details on his Presidents Cup efforts in 2005 and 2007 as well as his tips for up and coming golfers click here.
West Australian Jason Scrivener has ended an eight-month absence from the European Tour top 10 with a tie for seventh at the Open de Espana in Madrid. With Jon Rahm running away with a second straight Spanish Open title, a maiden European Tour win was unlikely when Scrivener began his final round tied for fifth […]
West Australian Jason Scrivener has ended an eight-month absence from the European Tour top 10 with a tie for seventh at the Open de Espana in Madrid.
With Jon Rahm running away with a second straight Spanish Open title, a maiden European Tour win was unlikely when Scrivener began his final round tied for fifth but he showed his intention with two birdies at the opening two holes.
A dropped shot at the par-4 sixth hole stalled his momentum but a kick-in birdie after a superb iron shot at the par-5 seventh saw him make the turn with a top-five finish well within reach.
A bogey at 12 was offset by a birdie at 15 as he signed for a 2-under 69 and his first top-10 finish since the ISPS HANDA Vic Open in February.
The result moved Scrivener up five places to 57th in the Race to Dubai standings, eight behind Scott Hend as the leading Australian on the Order of Merit.
A superb 6-under 65 in the third round had Dimi Papdatos in position to register his first top-10 finish of the year but a roller-coaster final 18 holes resulted in a tie for 23rd.
A bogey at the opening hole was the wrong way to start his closing 18 holes but the New South Welshman bounced back with birdies at four, six, seven and eight to bring the top 10 back within reach.
Hitting less than 29 per cent of fairways in the closing round, Papadatos dropped a shot at the par-3 ninth and another at the par-4 12th, his best result since May elevating him 10 spots to 165th in the Race to Dubai rankings.
West Australian Brett Rumford delivered his best result since he was tied for fifth in this tournament in April last year with a tie for 30th highlighted by a 5-under 66.
Four birdies and an eagle at the par-5 14th added up to Rumford’s best round since the opening round of the Made in Denmark tournament in September last year as he made his second cut since returning from wrist surgery in May.
European Tour
Mutuactivos Open de España
Club de Campo Villa de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
T7          Jason Scrivener 67-68-68-69—272            €34,740
​T23        Dimitrios Papadatos       70-71-65-70—276            €15,150
T30        Brett Rumford  70-71-66-70—277            €12,900
T49        Jake McLeod     68-70-75-68—281            €6,900
T55        Deyen Lawson 68-71-72-72—283            €4,650
MC        Marcus Fraser  73-70—143
MC        Nick Cullen         71-74—145
MC        Wade Ormsby  76-72—148
MC        Michael Campbell           79-71—150
Challenge Tour
Lalla AĂŻcha Challenge Tour
Royal Golf Dar Es Salam, Rabat, Morocco
T27        Josh Geary         69-69-74-73—285            €1,680
Jordan Mullaney has taken advantage of pristine course conditions to win the Greater Bank Pro-Am in Adamstown, Newcastle with a round of 6-under 64.
Jordan Mullaney has taken advantage of pristine course conditions to win the Greater Bank Pro-Am in Adamstown, Newcastle with a round of 6-under 64.
