Aussies chase unique hat-trick at PGA Tour Champions Q-School – Australian Golf Digest

by Admin
December 2, 2024

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A host of Aussie greats will seek to extend their country’s recent dominance when the final stage of the PGA Tour Champions Qualifying Tournament tees off in Arizona tonight, Australian time.

A 15-time winner on the Japan Golf Tour with more than ¥1 billion in total prizemoney, Brendan Jones turns 50 next March but is hoping to join the growing band of Aussies plying their trade on the over-50s tour in the US.

Twelve months ago, medallist Cameron Percy, Steve Allan, David Bransdon and Michael Wright took four of the five spots on offer while Victorian Richard Green was medallist in 2022 to secure his status.

Joining Jones in trying to complete an Aussie hat-trick are Mathew Goggin, Brad Kennedy, Andre Stolz and Scott Barr.

A three-time winner on the Korn Ferry Tour, Goggin [pictured] has two top-five finishes on the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia in the past 18 months and was runner-up at both the NSW Senior Open and Australian PGA Senior Championship in the past month. He made two starts on the Champions Tour in 2024 at the US Senior Open and Sanford International before taking medallist honours at the first stage of Q-School two weeks ago.

A four-time PGA Legends Tour Order of Merit winner, Stolz won a second Australian PGA Senior at Richmond by five strokes and is making a return to Q-School.

Kennedy’s three Japan Golf Tour wins and five PGA Tour of Australasia victories have all come after the age of 35 and is making his first Q-School appearance after celebrating his 50th birthday in June.

A three-time winner on the PGA Legends Tour this season, 52-year-old Barr continues to make appearances on the PGA Tour of Australasia, finishing tied for 21st at the WA PGA Championship in Kalgoorlie in October.