Kerry Mountcastle adds to great New Zealand golfing weekend
Kerry Mountcastle – image Australian Golf Media
New Zealand’s Kerry Mountcastle, currently ranked 1931st in the world ranking, will make a significant dent in that ranking and ensure access to all the upcoming events on the PGA Tour of Australasia with victory today in the Gippsland Super Sixes event at the Warragul Country Club in Victoria.
Mountcastle, a former New Zealand Eisenhower Trophy representative and a two-time winner on the Jennian Homes Charles Tour, claimed his first Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia title with a victory over Queensland’s Jake McLeod after Mountcastle had defeated amateur Joseph Owen in the semi-final and McLeod accounted for South Australian Jak Carter to reach his encounter with the eventual winner.
Mountcastle had survived a lengthy playoff on Saturday evening just to get into the final 24 to compete in today’s six-hole head-to-head match-ups.
Mountcastle earns A$36,000 and moves to the top of the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia money list.
It would be the first of two New Zealand victories on Sunday, Ben Campbell winning in Hing Kong just a couple of hours later.
