Brody Martin edges past Andrew Martin for Southwest Open win - PGA of Australia

Brody Martin edges past Andrew Martin for Southwest Open win


A third straight day of perfect weather created some great scoring from players around the immaculately presented Bunbury Golf Club for the final round of the Nexus Risk Services Southwest Open.

A third straight day of perfect weather created some great scoring from players around the immaculately presented Bunbury Golf Club for the final round of the Nexus Risk Services Southwest Open.

""Round of the day came from Rory Bourke who posted an early 65 to be 8-under total and give the leaders something to watch as they moved around the back-9.

Pushing past the rest of the field was a pack of four players tied at 11-under par with two holes left. The highly regarded Southwest Open trophy was awaiting someone’s name to be added to illustrious of previous winners and it was going to be either Brody Martin (WA), Andrew Martin (VIC), Matt Jager (WA) or James Marchesani (VIC).

Brody Martin birdied the 17th to move one in front of tournament leader Andrew Martin heading in to the final hole.

Andrew birdied first with a great 6-foot slider down the hole to put the pressure back on Brody over his 5-foot birdie putt in which nervously rode in the right edge.

“Lucky the hole got in the way with that last putt, it would have gone 12-foot past should it have missed,” said the eventual winner Brody Martin.

“So proud to have my name added to a trophy with so much history and so many great players listed on it, especially for my first professional win,” added the 2016 No1 ranked player from the PGA Trainee Program.

James Marchesani and Matt Jager tied for 3rd on 10-under par.

The WA swing of the Ladrbokes PGA Pro-Am Series now moves back to the city and gives players a day off before heading to Joondalup Pro-Am Wednesday and Hahn Super Dry Gosnells Pro-Am Friday.

Photo: Ashley Pearce Images


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