Sporting greats come out to play Vic PGA - PGA of Australia

Sporting greats come out to play Vic PGA


Some of Australia’s best loved sporting personalities will hit the fairways at this year’s Mercedes-Benz Truck and Bus Victorian PGA Championship.

Some of Australia’s best loved sporting personalities will hit the fairways at this year’s Mercedes-Benz Truck and Bus Victorian PGA Championship.

""Former Australian Test cricketers Shane Warne, Damien Fleming, Allan Border and Rodney Hogg; together with international counterparts, Sir Viv Richards and Sir Ian Botham, will all tee off at Huntingdale Golf Club next month.

Former Melbourne Football Club full forward and SEN host, David Schwarz, retired Essendon premiership player, Jason Johnson, and former Hawthorn and North Melbourne defender, Nathan Thompson, will join a host of domestic and international golfers.

Also tasting life inside the ropes will be Australian television and radio presenter Shura Taft, the Footy Show’s Sam Newman and from tournament partner SEN Andy Maher, Daniel Harford and Jason Richardson.

Longstanding Tour Professionals Peter O’Malley and Peter Lonard will join defending champion, Gareth Paddison, inaugural Fiji International winner, Steven Jeffress, 2012 Australian PGA Championship winner, Daniel Popovic, 2013 WA PGA Champion, Jack Wilson, and new Pro, Todd Sinnott.

The Mercedes-Benz Truck and Bus Victorian PGA Championship will be played under a new format based on the successful AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

The format will see 92 of the PGA’s past and future stars vying for the title and the Jack Harris Cup.

A limited number of places are still available for amateur golfers to play inside the ropes, for further information please click here.

The tournament is proudly sponsored by Mercedes-Benz Truck and Bus and supported by SEN and Huntingdale Golf Club.

The Mercedes-Benz Truck and Bus Victorian PGA Championship will be played from Tuesday 10th – Friday 13th February 2015 at Huntingdale Golf Club.

Admission to this event is free.

Huntingdale Golf Club is located in the heart of Melbourne’s world famous ‘sandbelt’ region and is one of Australia’s most prestigious private golf courses.

For more information, please visit the Mercedes-Benz Truck and Bus Victorian PGA Championship website, www.vicpga.com.au.

The Victorian PGA Championship is managed by the PGA of Australia and is sanctioned by the PGA Tour of Australasia.

To view the 2015 PGA Tour of Australasia schedule, please click here.

UPDATE: Ricky Ponting has unfortunately pulled
out of the Mercedes-Benz Truck and Bus Victorian PGA Championship. Damien
Fleming is a late inclusion to next weeks line up.


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