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<\/p>\nContested at Royal Queensland Golf Club, which will host this year\u2019s BMW Australian PGA Championship from November 27-30, Stewart shot a round of 89 to beat fellow Nudgee Golf Club member Dolan by a single shot.<\/p>\n
A winner of 97 races across his career, Stewart is a 16 handicapper who, like many of his jockey mates, has developed a strong love of golf.<\/p>\n
The highlight of his round was a birdie at the par-4 second hole.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had a couple of broken ribs, so it\u2019s good to get out back on the course and I\u2019ve surprised myself today,\u201d Stewart said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t hit a ball for six or seven weeks.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a real pleasure to play a golf course like this one. I was lucky enough to get out here before the Australian PGA last year and it just helped having that experience going around it once, knowing where to go, especially around the greens.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re all pretty competitive, so it\u2019s good to get one up on the others today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dolan, who has reduced his handicap from 18 to 12 in the past year despite all the extra attention and off-track appearances a Melbourne Cup-winning jockey receives, could have forced a countback had he parred his final hole, a bogey leaving him one short of his good mate.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t play like a 12 handicap today, but I still had a bit of fun,\u201d Dolan said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy handicap has come down quickly. I\u2019ve probably almost come down too quickly because I\u2019m probably not playing to my handicap, but I am just really enjoying it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d love to get down to at least single digits. That\u2019d be pretty cool. Whether I have the ability or not, I\u2019m not sure.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d probably need to go and get a few lessons just to help me to that single digit mark.\u201d<\/p>\n
The BMW Australian PGA Jockey Challenge was held in conjunction with the Brisbane Racing Club<\/p>\n
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Melbourne Cup winner Robbie Dolan in action at Royal Queensland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Contested at Royal Queensland Golf Club, which will host this year\u2019s BMW Australian PGA Championship from November 27-30,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-131371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}