If you missed it overnight, Brett Rumford won the ISPS Handa Super6 in Perth, while happy little Ha Na Jang overcame a struggling Lisette Salas to win the ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open.
European Tour ISPS Handa Super6 final leaderboard. http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2017/tournamentid=2017012/leaderboard/index.html#/leaderboard
Brett Rumford led by 5 shots after 3 rounds of stroke play, so it was poetic justice that he made it through 4 rounds of stroke play, beating a young 19 year old from Thailand called Phachara Khongwatmai in the final 2&1, and regaining his European Tour privileges for another 2 years at 39 years young.
Canada's Austin Connelly had a great week in his debut finishing 9th after a tough 2&1 loss to Aussie Matthew Millar in the 2nd round of the matchplay. Austin puts € 25,567 in his jeans for the week.
This new format provided a lot of excitement and drama that wouldn't otherwise have been present. 8 players had to playoff for 5 spots late on Saturday to fill out the 24 man matchplay finale to start with, then the matches were only 6 holes each which made the players go for it from the start.
LPGA Tour ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open final leaderboard http://www.lpga.com/tournaments/isps-handa-womens-australian-open/results
On another difficult day for scoring in the wind at Royal Adelaide, it was the diminutive, smiling South Korean Ha Na Jang who was the only one in the top 25 to break 70, as she charged up the leaderboard, culminating with a 50 footer for eagle on the 71st hole to win the ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open by 3 shots at -10 for her 4th win.
Lisette Salas chunked a wedge on her first hole and never recovered with 7 bogey's, ending up with +5 78 to finish 7th.
Maude Aimee LeBlanc had a superb week, posting her best ever finish at -5 (71-68-73-75) T7. Alena Sharp also had a strong week, finishing T16 at -3. Brooke Henderson had five birdies on her front nine of 32, then came the tough back nine in +3 to finish T21 -2.
Bryan Angus
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