Australasian Tour’s 2023 schedule begins on Mornington Peninsula

Todd Sinnott with the 2022 trophy – photo Australian Golf Media

The PGA Tour of Australasia gets its 2023 schedule underway when the TPS Victoria hosted by Geoff Ogilvy gets underway at the Rosebud Country Club’s Composite Course on the Mornington Peninsula.

The event brings together both men and women competing for the same purse and in the same field.

Victorian Todd Sinnott defends what was his first title in five years and just his second in professional golf when defeating Anthony Quayle and Daniel Gale by just one shot this time last year, overcoming a history of injury and illness to display some of the talent he had displayed as ana amateur.

The rest of 2023 wasn’t so productive but a return to a venue which provided such emotional reward for him might just be the spark the long hitter needs.

The event is the first of nine PGA Tour of Australasia events between now and the end of March, highlighted by the New Zealand Open in early March which carries a significantly higher purse then the others. The introduction of events such as that of this week’s does however provide Australasian golfers in particular the chance to compete before taking their games to the world.

The women were led by Wales’ Lydia Hall in 2022 but with Hall not entered this year, the focus will be on arguably Australia’s greatest ever player, Karrie Webb, LPGA Tour golfers, Stephanie Kyriacou and Sarah Jane Smith and last week’s winner on the WAPGA Tour Cassie Porter.

Last year’s leading woman Lydia Hall – not in this week’s field – photo Australian Golf Media