{"id":871814,"date":"2026-08-28T19:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T19:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/871814\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T19:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T19:42:21","slug":"tasmanian-golfer-jonty-lunson-wins-queensland-amateur-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/871814\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasmanian golfer Jonty Lunson wins Queensland Amateur Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tasmanian Jonty Lunson has pulled off a stunning comeback to win the 2026 Queensland Amateur Championship at Beerwah Golf Club, fighting back from four down after seven holes to defeat local hope Harrison Gomez in extra holes.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old Devonport Golf Club member made four bogeys in the first six holes of the final before turning the match on its head on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was four over par, I made four bogeys in the first six holes, so kinda just the thought that he\u2019s not really winning, I was more losing,\u201d Lunson told Pulse.<\/p>\n

\u201cKinda just waiting for a little bit of confidence to come back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Lunson fought back from four down after seven holes in the final<\/p>\n

That confidence arrived in a hurry, with Lunson birdieing holes seven, eight, 10, 11 and 12 to claw back to one down.<\/p>\n

A birdie on 17 squared the match before Gomez sank a clutch 10-footer on 18 to force sudden death.<\/p>\n

\"\"Jonty Lunson won the 2026 Queensland Amateur Championship at Beerwah<\/p>\n

\u201cI was kinda \u2026 not deflated, but it was a bit of a momentum shift,\u201d Lunson said.<\/p>\n

Both players traded pars on the 19th and 20th holes before Gomez made a mistake on 21, leaving a putt eight feet short.<\/p>\n

Lunson also came up short from further out but converted from six feet to clinch victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cI stayed patient, didn\u2019t try and do anything special,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"\"Lunson fought back from four down after seven holes in the final<\/p>\n

\u201cJust sorta trusted my own game.\u201d<\/p>\n

The title is Lunson\u2019s second World Amateur Golf Ranking victory in as many months, following his Singapore Open Amateur Championship win in July.<\/p>\n

Gomez finished runner-up to Lunson by a shot in Singapore as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a good mate though, so probably wouldn\u2019t call it a rivalry,\u201d Lunson said.<\/p>\n

\"\"Jonty Lunson won the 2026 Queensland Amateur Championship at Beerwah<\/p>\n

Lunson completed seven rounds of golf in five days across the stroke play and match play components.<\/p>\n

He finished tied for fifth in qualifying before beating Mitchell Salmond 2&1, Christopher Filipowicz 4&3 and Kade Bryant 4&3 to reach the final.<\/p>\n

He is flying straight out this morning to represent Australia at the Nomura Cup in China.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I] don\u2019t really have any time to sort of take it in,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tasmanian Jonty Lunson has pulled off a stunning comeback to win the 2026 Queensland Amateur Championship at Beerwah…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-871814","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\/871814","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=871814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}