Can a ‘Fox’ steal the Australian PGA title?
HE will have to beat a field including the cream of Australia’s golfing talent however Ryan Fox will be on a mission to become the first New Zealander to win the BWM Australian PGA Championship in more than 25-years.
A two-time winner in the US in 2025 and a proven world-class performer, Fox returns to compete in Australia for the first time since 2022.
“It’s going to be a great Summer of Golf in Australia and being part of it at the BMW Australian PGA Championship at Royal Queensland is something I’m very much looking forward to,” Fox said.
“I had some good success on the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia in my very early days on Tour which helped to give my career a nice kick along. Winning one of the big tournaments like the PGA would be a real highlight.”
The success on the Australasian Tour about which Fox speaks included the Order of Merit title in 2019, a year in which he won the ISPS Handa World Super 6 event in Perth, a tournament co-sanctioned with the DP World Tour.
Along with his two PGA TOUR titles, Fox has won all over the world, including four victories on the DP World Tour in Europe, three in Australia and two wins in both the Fiji and Tahiti Opens.
After a breakthrough year on the PGA TOUR, Ryan Fox will be confident of his chances of becoming the first Kiwi winner of the Australian PGA in 26 years.
After cutting his teeth in the professional game in Australia, New Zealand and in the South Pacific, Fox earned a European Tour card in 2017, finishing fifth at the Open de France and tied for fourth in both the Irish and Scottish Open’s during his rookie season.
In February of 2019, Fox won his first European Tour event, at the co-sanctioned World Super 6 Perth, beating Adrian Otaegui 3 and 2 in the final, then three years later won his second European Tour event in February 2022 at the Ras Al Khaimah Classic, his 22-under-par total five shots clear of Ross Fisher.
Courtesy of finishing second on the season long DP World Tour Race To Dubai points list, Fox would win a PGA TOUR exemption in 2023, before going on to claim his first PGA TOUR event, at the Myrtle Beach Classic, chipping in for birdie from on the first playoff hole to beat Mackenzie Hughes and Harry Higgs. One month later, Fox beat Sam Burns in another playoff to win the RBC Canadian Open.
With Fox to be joined by Daniel Hillier and Kazuma Kobori, as well as a number of exciting young guns, the New Zealand contingent will be aiming to become the first from their country to win the BMW PGA Championship since Greg Turner in 1999.
Leishman to lead the Aussie charge
A six-time winner on the PGA TOUR, with a DP World Tour victory and an individual triumph on the LIV Golf Tour to his credit, Marc Leishman has committed to three tournaments on home soil later this year in leading the Aussie charge during the golfing summer.
With LIV having wrapped up for 2025, Leishman winning for the first time at LIV Miami, the Victorian will turn his attention to the Australian summer, and to contesting three tournaments in three states – the BMW Australian PGA Championship in Queensland, Australian Open in Victoria and Nexus Advisernet Bowra & O’Dea WA Open.
“The BMW Australian PGA Championship and Australian Open are two of my favourite events on the calendar each year, like they are for all the Aussie players. I’m also so excited to be playing the WA Open at Mount Lawley, a course that I’ve heard plenty about,” Leishman said.
“Winning at home would mean a lot to me, and to have three chances to do that before the end of the year is very exciting.”
Marc Leishman has committed to playing three tournaments on Australian soil prior to Christmas.
Leishman will start his Australian swing on October 16 with an appearance in Western Australia at the recently renovated Mount Lawley Golf Club, from there the Warrnambool native has committed to play the BMW PGA in Brisbane, then the Australian Open at Royal Melbourne during the first week of December.
In what was his 16th appearance at the Australian PGA Leishman came close to capturing the title just 12 months ago, before finishing in a tie for third behind winner Elvis Smylie, while in an indication of his liking for the Royal Queensland course was also third behind Min Woo Lee in 2023.
The past two champions in Lee and Smylie, along with Adam Scott, Cam Smith, the 41-year-old Leishman, Cameron Davis and New Zealander Ryan Fox, will head up a stellar field for the PGA Championship, which tees off from November 27-30.
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