Brett Rumford has completed a miraculous recovery by winning the TX Civil & Logistics WA PGA Championship seven months after he faced a life threatening health scare.

In March Rumford found himself in a South African hospital
having 30 centimetres of his small intestine removed due to an apple causing a
blockage.

"What I have been through has been pretty horrendous all
year," said Rumford.

"After surgery there was a good 10-11 weeks where I didn’t
touch a golf club. Even chipping alone, I couldn’t hit a chip for 10 weeks."

"Seven weeks ago I had shingles for six weeks, so I have had
very large periods of the year where I haven’t picked up a golf club."

Today he won the TX Civil & Logistics WA PGA
Championship, his first tournament since The Open in July.

"Surprised really, I wasn’t expecting much this week to tell
you the honest truth. The golf course lent itself to good scoring, there were
plenty of birdies out there and I putted well the first three rounds," added
Rumford.

"It’s been a really funny year and certainly the preparation
hasn’t been anywhere near where what I would have expected to go out and win a
championship."

Rumford started the day with a four shot lead and in a
taxing day on course he managed to hold on to shot 1-under 71 and win the title
by two shots with a tournament total 16-under 272.

"Today was a tough day; it was a different wind so it was a
completely different golf course. It made things a little bit interesting but
it was just a strange day for me. Golf can give you everything one day and then
it can just completely turn on you."

"It was hard to get any momentum, it’s amazing when you are
hitting all the shots and you are clear you don’t even notice it."

"I have been preaching patience all week but that was
patience on a scoring level, today was just patience on a ‘what the, is
actually happening here?’ It was quite bizarre."

While Rumford was never caught in the lead there were
moments where he was put under pressure by his playing partner Daniel Nisbet
who just didn’t have luck on his side today.

"You never take it for granted; it’s never done until it’s
done," added Rumford.

"When I was on the 18^th green with two putts and
a two shot lead you start to think it’s fairly safe, but even still you have
that little voice in the back of your head that says don’t four putt it."

Playing two groups away from Rumford, Daniel Fox fired a
superb 6-under 66 to finish outright runner-up on 14-under the card.

"Very pleased, I have been putting plenty of hard work in.
Like I said yesterday it’s more of a mental battle for me a lot of the time,"
said Fox.  

"I was just really patient this week, I had a couple of
times where I hit bad shots and I didn’t allow myself to react too much, I just
kept on with the plan and executed it pretty well"

"I thought 8-under would be a good total for the day. I
thought if I can do that they I get one shot better off than Brett was when he
started the day," added Fox who started the final round seven shots behind
Rumford .

"Giving a quality player, like Brett, that many shots head
start it is pretty tough to mow him down. But to finish basically in front of
everyone else I was pretty stoked with that."

Ed Stedman also made a final day charge firing 7-under 65 to
finish tied third with Daniel Nisbet on 13-under 275.

Aaron Pike rounded out the top-5 with a final round 3-under
69 but will be left ruing a bogey and double bogey on holes 6 and 7.