{"id":61713,"date":"2025-08-12T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/61713\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T05:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:00:07","slug":"complete-guide-to-the-png-open-pga-of-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/61713\/","title":{"rendered":"Complete guide to the PNG Open &#8211; PGA of Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tournament that dates back to 1977 when Ted Ball was triumphant, the PNG Open joined the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia schedule in 2016 and has been the maiden Tour victories for Cory Crawford (2017) and Daniel Gale (2018).<\/p>\n<p>Returning as defending champion, William Bruyeres\u2019s win 12 months ago was all the more significant given his grandfather\u2019s own success as a golfer when stationed in Moresby for work.<\/p>\n<p>If he is to go back-to-back, Bruyeres will have to fend off not only the rising stars of Australian golf but an influx of Americans who are making their Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia debuts.<\/p>\n<p>Medallist Chris Malec and Ty Gingerich both earned status for this season at the Qualifying School held in Georgia last month while Brock Healy, Kameron Williams, Scotty Kennon, Viraj Garewal, Tyler Griggs, Nathan Jordi and Matthew Cleary can all enhance their chances for additional starts this season with a strong showing in PNG.<\/p>\n<p>This week will also see history made as the inaugural PNG Women\u2019s Open is played concurrently across the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Nine members of the WPGA Tour of Australasia will tee it up alongside six amateurs from Papua New Guinea in what represents a milestone event celebrating PNG\u2019s 50th year of Independence.<\/p>\n<p>Although there is no television broadcast this week, fans can stay up to date with all the action via the PGA of Australia and Challenger PGA Tour of Australia social media accounts along with live scoring and daily tournament wraps at <a href=\"https:\/\/pga.org.au\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pga.org.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PNG Open<br \/>Royal Port Moresby Golf Club<br \/>Prizemoney: $225,000<br \/>Live scores: <a href=\"https:\/\/pga.org.au\/report\/?tourn=2023&amp;report=tmentry~season=2025~alphaorder~&amp;class=aus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pga.org.au<\/a><br \/>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PGATourAus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@PGATourAus<\/a><br \/>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pgatouraus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@PGATourAus<\/a> <br \/>X: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PGAofAustralia\" rel=\"nofollow\">@PGAofAustralia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players to watch<br \/>William Bruyeres \u2013 Defending champion<br \/>Phoenix Campbell \u2013 Two-time Queensland PGA champion<br \/>Quinn Croker \u2013 2023\/2024 Future Tour Order of Merit winner<br \/>Jimmy Zheng \u2013 Final Qualifying School medallist<br \/>Harrison Crowe \u2013 Two-time Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia winner<\/p>\n<p>Past champions<br \/>2024: William Bruyeres (Royal Port Moresby Golf Club)<br \/>2023: Lachlan Barker (Royal Port Moresby Golf Club)<br \/>2019: Peter Cooke (Royal Port Moresby Golf Club)<br \/>2018: Daniel Gale (Royal Port Moresby Golf Club)<br \/>2017: Cory Crawford (Royal Port Moresby Golf Club)<br \/>2016: Brad Moules (Royal Port Moresby Golf Club)<\/p>\n<p>Tournament record round<br \/>61, Daniel Gale, R3, 2018<\/p>\n<p>Low front nine score<br \/>29, Daniel Gale, R3, 2018<\/p>\n<p>Low back nine score<br \/>29, Mitchell A. Brown, R2, 2016<br \/>29, Jack Wilson, R2, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Largest winning margin<br \/>9, Daniel Gale, 2018<\/p>\n<p>Most eagles in a round<br \/>3, Daniel Gale, R3, 2018<\/p>\n<p>Most birdies in a round<br \/>10, James Marchesani, R1, 2017<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tournament that dates back to 1977 when Ted Ball was triumphant, the PNG Open joined the Challenger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-61713","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\/61713","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=61713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}