The final round of the Nexus Risk TSA Group WA Open is underway at the Royal Fremantle Golf Club and it’s an all West Aussie affair.
The final round of the Nexus Risk TSA Group WA Open is underway at the Royal Fremantle Golf Club and it’s an all West Aussie affair.
Teeing off in the final round, there are five West
Australian players inside the top-4 on the leaderboard, including two amateurs.
Leading the tournament is perhaps the least known of the
five, Daniel Fox. Having competed on the PGA Tour of Australasia since 2010,
after he completed College in the US, Fox came into this week fresh from a
runner-up finish at the TX Civil & Logistics WA PGA Championship.
He is closely followed up two of Western Australia’s
favourite young Professional golfers; Michael Sim and Jason Scrivener.
31-year-old Michael Sim is a player that needs little
introduction, he was unbeatable early in his career notching up all four of his
Professional victories on the Web.com Tour by the time he was 25.
But injuries plagued Sim, denting his confidence and he disappeared
from the world golfing stage.
Back competing regularly on the PGA Tour of Australasia
since 2013, it feels like Sim isn’t far away from his early career form having
posted two top-10 results in his last four starts.
Today Sim is chasing his first victory on home soil.
Jason Scrivener is the latest West Australian to make an
impact on the world stage. Having turned Professional in 2010 he honed his
craft on the PGA Tour of Australasia before broadening his horizons in Europe this
year after earning his tour card at Qualifying School.
Scrivener, like most rookies on the European Tour, struggled
early in the season while he tried to find his feet. But he put together an extremely
impressive second half of the year which was highlighted by a tied third in the
season ending Hong Kong Open.
While he failed to retain his card by the slimmest of
margins, Scrivener has returned home a more experienced player which has showed
this week at the WA Open.
A win today would be the perfect preparation for Scrivener
who flies to Spain tomorrow for final stage European Tour Q-School next week.
Sitting tied fourth on the leaderboard are amateurs Curtis
Luck and Min Woo Lee.
Playing his home course Min Woo Lee has a secret weapon,
other than his local knowledge, he has the same caddy on his bag as Oliver Goss
when he won the WA Open as an amateur in 2012.
Competing in the same group, Lee and Luck will spur each
other on, similar to Goss and Brady Watt who ended up in a playoff for the
title in 2012.