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.

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

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.

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.

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

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. 

For the final scores from the TX Civil & Logistics WA PGA Championship please visit pga.org.au.

The PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit can also be found at pga.org.au.

The PGA Tour of Australasia will now head to Royal Fremantle GC for the Nexus Risk TSA Group WA Open from 5-8 November.

A full PGA Tour of Australasia schedule can be found at pga.org.au.

Key quotes:

Brett Rumford, 67, 67, 67, 61, 16-under, Champion

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

Daniel Fox, 69, 71, 68, 66, 14-under, runner-up

"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."

"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."

"I needed a birdie up the last but I was happy with the result, giving a quality player like Brett that many shots head start is pretty tough to mow him down. But to finish basically in front of everyone else I was pretty stoked with that."

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