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 17^th 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 35^th this week.

Doull’s win moves him to 14^th place on the Order of Merit.

Brilliant British-born but now Gold Coast citizen, Billy Dowling, still an amateur, finished tied for 3^rd 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.

Final Result

Min Woo Lee – file photo courtesy of Golf Australia

Min Woo Lee has started the 2026 playing season in the best possible fashion with an opening round of 62 to share the lead at the American Express Championship in La Quinta, California.

Lee, whose last tournament was when finishing 14^th at the Australian Open in early December, was bogey-free in producing nines of 31 and 31 to share the lead with American Pierceson Coody in an event played over three different courses before returning to the Pete Dye Stadium Course for the final round on Sunday.

“Yeah, there was a little bit of anxiousness starting out,” said Lee, referring to starting the year. “The first round of the year, a bit of a swing, not change, but something that we’ve been working on in the off-season.

“I changed my grip only like a week and a half ago, so it was a very, it’s good that you see results straight away. But that was pretty much the anxiousness that I had. I didn’t know how it would go on the greens, and it turned out well.

“So you didn’t really know how it was going to go. But, yeah, started off really nice. Yeah, kept it going. It was a great day to make some birdies. Probably the stillest day I’ve ever played golf in. So the numbers were exactly, you know, what you wanted, and you just execute ’em. But it was a really fun day.”

When asked how a possible suggestion of date changes and rescheduling on the PGA Tour might impact this event in the future, Lee responded;

“I love this tournament. It’s a great place to start the year. Great courses and lots of fun, and make some birdies. So it is nice to have in the schedule, because the Signature Events are very hard and major like, so it is nice to be able to hit it in the rough and actually hit it on the green. So I would love it to be in the schedule, and I would love it to, yeah, just be there next year and years coming.”

Earlier in the week, Lee played a practice round with Jason Day in a recorded piece for Day’s YouTube channel, and despite a solid debut in the event when 21^st in 2024, Lee has clearly benefited from the advice Day gave him on Monday.

Day, too, was brilliant on day one, finishing strongly for a round of 63 on the Stadium Course to be in a share of 3^rd place and just one off the lead with, amongst others, Scottie Scheffler.

Day finished 3^rd in this event last year behind the winner Sepp Straka.

Leaderboard

Daniel Hillier – file image courtesy of Photosport NZ / NZ Open 

New Zealand’s Daniel Hillier staged a remarkable final round of 65 (beaten by only one golfer) to almost snatch the Dubai Invitational at the Dubai Creek Resort after beginning the final round five shots behind the eventual winner, Nacho Elvira of Spain.

Hillier would finish in the runner-up position and earn €258,400, increasing his already significant take from events in the UAE following his runner-up finish in Dubai last year and a 5^th place in Abu Dhabi.

When he finished his round nearly an hour before the final group of Elvira and South Africa’s Dylan Fritelli, Hillier was perhaps only hoping for the chance to finish in a share of second place, especially with the likes of Shane Lowry and Rory McIlroy still with a few holes to play.

A lengthy birdie putt at the 15^th had given Hillier a share of the lead with McIlroy and Elvira with Lowry and Marcus Armitage another shot back, but with those players having holes to play, surely someone would finish strongly to grab the lead.

Lowry appeared to have stolen a march on the field when he moved one ahead with a birdie at the 15th. It would be the Irishman, however, who gave up a one-shot lead at the 72^nd hole when he found the greenside bunker with his approach, blasted across the green and into a penalty area, double bogeyed and at that point Hillier and Elvira were left in the lead at 9 under.

Within a few minutes, the 38-year-old Elvira had taken the lead with a birdie at the 17^th, and he managed to safely negotiate the potentially dangerous 18^th to secure his third DP World Tour title.

Hillier has become one of the real forces amongst the DP World Tour regulars since joining the tour in 2023, finishing 18^th on the money list last year, and although he so nearly gained access to the PGA Tour via the DP World Tour money list, he is already showing that another year in Europe will be an even more successful one.

Hillier has finished inside the top 6 in four of his last five DP World Tour starts.

Hillier suggested after his round that a round of golf with fellow countryman Ryan Fox earlier in the week allowed him a different mindset this week, and it so nearly paid off in the best possible way.

“To be honest, at the start of the week I was chatting with Foxy,” said Hillier. “We had a couple of nine-hole matches, and he said, Why can’t you be like this when you’re playing in a tournament?

“Yeah, just pretend I was playing a little nine-hole match against the golf course, and yeah, basically taking it one shot at a time. Yeah, for the most part, happy days.”

Fox finished 27^th in the 60-man field.

The DP World Tour continues in Dubai with this week’s Dubai Desert Classic, where Hillier and Fox will be joined by fellow Australasians Kazuma Kobori, Elvis Smylie, Jason Scrivener, and David Micheluzzi.

Results

 

Nathan Barbieri – in  action today – image PGA of Australia

New South Wales golfer, Nathan Barbieri, has the halfway lead in the men’s division of the Vic Open at 13^th Beach on the Bellarine Peninsula, his best of the day by four shots round of 65, moving him four clear of first round leader Canberra’s Brendan Jones, with another shot back to Victorian Cameron Jones and Queenslander Jack Munro.

Barbieri is chasing his first win on the PGA Tour of Australasia, although he has been runner-up or third on several occasions. His faultless round of 65, which was three strokes better than any other player on day two at 13th Beach, was a notable achievement.

Jones, who led after his opening round of 66 over the Creek Course, battled for much of the day until a final hole eagle saw him move back into contention despite being four off Barberi’s lead.

Jones has won on the PGA Tour of Australasia when he was successful at the 2023 New Zealand Open and did finish runner-up at the 2012 Australian Open and was several times inside the top ten in other lesser events but he is a prolific winner on the Japan Tour  Open and after a season on the PGA Tour Champions he has started his PGA Tour of Australasian campaign well.

Barbieri has stolen a march on the field with a massive 15 shots between the leader and those who just made the cut on the number at 5 over, but getting across the line over the weekend will be a big task for the 28-year-old former leading amateur.

The Women’s Vic Open is being led by Welsh golfer, Lydia Hall, who, despite a second round of 75, was able to lead into round three.

38-year-old Hall has won events on the Ladies European Tour, but with just two top tens on the Ladies European Tour last season, this represents a significant turnaround for the lady from Bridgend in Wales.

Hall leads by one over Japan’s Aina Morohashi and NSW’s Kelsey Bennett.

Leaderboard Men

Leaderboard Women

Lydia Hall – leads the ladies’ field after a stunning second round 

Chris Wood – the NSW Open earns starts in the International Series events – image PGA of Australia

The four Australians who made it to the final rounds of qualifying for the three available places on the 2026 LIV Golf League have been unable to secure one of those coveted spots.

Matt Jones, chasing a return to LIV Golf, and Queenslanders Cory Crawford and Chris Wood tied for 8^th place in the field of 22 who lined up on the final day, while Travis Smyth finished in a share of 16^th.

The available spots went to Canadian Richard Lee, Swede Bjorn Hellgren, and Anthony Kim, a returnee to Liv Golf, having played there this past season.

Crawford, Wood, and Jones will, however, each earn one of the ten places in the International Series events this year, the leading ten and ties in this week’s event gaining access to the lucrative events, which are an addition to the Asian Tour schedule.

Smyth will also get to play the International events courtesy of his standing on the Asian Tour.

Final results