Trio leads WAPGA Championship through 36 holes
Matias Sanchez – the former Australian Amateur Champion is one of three leaders – photo PGA of Australia
West Australian Jarryd Felton and Victorians Matias Sanchez and Jack Murdoch, lead the $250,000 WAPGA Championship at the Graham Marsh designed Kalgoorlie Course through 36 holes, that trio two ahead of Queensland’s Tim Hart.
The event is the first event of the 2022 / 2023 PGA Tour of the summer of golf in Australasia
Felton, who has played mainly the European Challenge Tour in 2022 with the occasional DP World Tour event thrown in, is a former winner of the NSW and New Zealand PGA Championships and an event on the PGA Tour of Australasia in Sydney earlier this year.
Sanchez is a former winner of the Australian Amateur Championship (2017) when he defeated Min Woo Lee to do so and that same year finished as the low amateur at the Australian Open.
Murdoch has played mainly on the Asian Development Tour in 2022 recording several top tens while there.
The trio are tow ahead of the powerful Tim Hart who has yet to win on the PGA Tour of Australasia but who has several top 3 finishes and has been twice runner-up in events similar to this week’s tournament. Hart is, though, one of the most prolific winners of pro-am events, more especially on the Queensland Sunshine Tour.
David Micheluzzi from Victoria and the outstanding NSW amateur Jeffrey Guan are another shot back in a share of 5th place.
