Stephen Allan makes it two wins in 2025
Allan, shown here winning earlier in the year, has made it two wins for the season
US-based Victorian, Stephen Allan, has today won his second PGA Tour Champions title when leading the Dick’s Open at the Enjoie Golf Club in Endicott, New York, wire to wire and claiming the US$330,000 first prize. His earnings on the PGA Tour Champions have now moved past the US$1 million mark.
Allan, a former Australian Open Champion (2002), and German Open winner, first joined the PGA Tour Champions in 2024 after gaining one of the five cards available through final Qualifying late in 2023 and, after a solid first season in which he retained his playing privileges, he has now won twice in season two having also won the Galleri Classic in March.
The win in March was his first victory anywhere since his Australian Open victory at the Victoria Golf Club 22 years earlier.
Allan led from his opening round of 63 on Friday and eventually won by four over Jason Caron, with Notah Begay and Boo Weekley sharing third place.
Allan will now move inside the top ten in the Charl Schwab Cup rankings.
“It was a pretty great week,” said Allan. “I got off to an amazing start the first day, 7 under through 7, which I don’t really know what happened, everything just went well. I made a few putts and chipped one in. And then the game wasn’t quite as sharp after that, but my putting was great, managed to avoid too many bogeys. I think I only had two for the week.
“With Joey, my son Joey on the bag, it was amazing. He’s a good reader of greens. And just having your son on the bag, make sure that you stay calm, you’re not going to lose it when things go wrong. Yeah, it’s been a great week.
The increasing number of Australians playing on the PGA Tour Champions has made his transition to senior golf even more enjoyable for the now 51-year-old.
“Yeah, all the Aussies on tour are great,” said Allan. “Most of them I’ve known almost since junior golf, and if not since junior golf, right from when I first turned pro. Now we’re on the Champions Tour, we’ve been doing it a long time.
“I’ve known those guys, all of them for almost 30 years. Some of them are really good friends and it just makes week to week easy because you’ve got friends out here all the time. You can play a practice round with them, have dinner with them, just seeing them at lunch, have a chat, you can talk about some of the Aussie sports and things like that. It’s great to have them all around.”
Queenslander, Michael Wright, who gained his card at the same time as Allan, also had a good week when he finished in a share of 5th place.
