Veterans Richard Green and Marcus Fraser were the only Australians to survive the cut at the European Tour’s flagship BMW PGA Championship at the weekend, Green taking top honours from his Victorian counterpart by a shot.
Veterans Richard Green and Marcus Fraser were the only Australians to survive the cut at the European Tour’s flagship BMW PGA Championship at the weekend, Green taking top honours from his Victorian counterpart by a shot.
Green finished the week at 5-under and T22
while Fraser was a shot behind courtesy of a final round 68, his 4-under total
good for a share of 27th.
Australians historically find the going
tough at Wentworth and that was the case again this year with Wade Ormsby,
Scott Hend, Brett Rumford and Andrew Dodt all at 6-over or worse through two
rounds and missing the weekend.
Both Fraser and Green were at 1-under for
the first two rounds, surviving the cut by two shots,
with each posting one sub 70 round at the
weekend to finish mid-field.
Interestingly, Fraser made three eagles
over the course of the week, two of them coming in the final nine holes on
Sunday.
In the final round he made three at the 12th
and 18th, both par-5’s, and also holed out for a two at the par-4 11th
hole on Thursday.