Jordan Doull survives two double bogeys to win the Webex Player Series Victoria.
Jordan Doull wins second PGA Tour of Australasia title – image PGA of Australia
26-year-old West Australian Jordan Doull twice recovered from double bogeys during today’s final round of the Webex Players Series Victoria, and would eventually win his second PGA Tour title, surviving a four-hole playoff to defeat last week’s Vic Open Champion Cameron John.
The pair were locked in a battle throughout the final round at the Rosebud Country Club after Doull had begun the day two ahead of John.
Doull, who twelve months ago won another playoff when successful against Jack Buchanan at the Webex Series event in Perth, shared the lead at 13 under with John after making the turn after an outward nine of 36.
Doull moved ahead through 13 holes, but his chances took a blow when he double bogeyed the 17th after taking a two-shot lead through 16.
Both players were tied playing the 72nd hole, but when Doull holed a 10-footer to keep the title alive, they headed to the first extra hole, which they would play over four times before John missed a 3-footer, giving Doull the title.
Surprisingly, as has become a recent trend, the hole was not recut, and, instead, exactly the same hole location was used in five times playing the hole on day four. It seems a no-brainer for the modern and more recent trend of cutting a new hole after a couple of times playing the playoff hole but not used on this occasion.
It keeps the crowd around the same location but offers the opportunity for a new look to a hole in which a level of sameness has developed.
Either way, Doull, who spent five years at a university in the USA, has rebounded after missing five of his previous seven cuts on the PGA Tour of Australasia.
Cameron John now has the lead on the PGA Tour of Australasia’s Order of Merit, his runner-up finish moving him past long-time leader Christopher Wood, who could only finish 35th this week.
Doull’s win moves him to 14th place on the Order of Merit.
Brilliant British-born but now Gold Coast citizen, Billy Dowling, still an amateur, finished tied for 3rd one shot from the playoff, sharing that position with Sydney’s Austin Bautista, who won earlier in the season in Kalgoorlie.
The leading women were Victorian Jazy Roberts and Coffs Harbour’s Amelia Mehmet Grohn, who finished in a share of 26th, playing from forward tees but for the same prizemoney.
