Queensland’s Proverbs wins playoff for first Australasian Tour title
Blake Proverbs on his way to victory today – image PGA of Australia
28-year-old Queenslander Blake Proverbs today won his first PGA Tour of Australasia event in seven years as a professional when he defeated 52-year-old Jason Norris after a three-hole playoff at the Webex Series Murray River event at Cobram Barooga on the Murray River.
Beginning the day three and four shots respectively behind the 54 hole leader, Jake McLeod, Proverbs was round in 64 on the par 71 layout while Norris had 63 to force the pair into a playoff which Proverbs eventually won with a par at the third extra hole.
Prior to today’s win, Proverbs had recorded seven top-five finishes on the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia, but the victory will not only add A$45,000 to his bank account but also move him to 14th on the Australasian Tour Order of Merit and open up the opportunity for further progress over the remaining weeks in the 2o24 / 2025 season.
For Norris, he narrowly missed adding a second win in two weeks for the over-fifty brigade on the PGA Tour of Australasia following the victory by Michael Wright a week ago.
His final round of 63 included two eagles, one from 60 feet on the 10th and his par at the 72nd hole after finding the heavy rough to the right of the fairway was full of merit as he needed to make the 15 footer to ensure he was still alive to join the playoff.
Norris has played well on the Australasian Legends Tour where he won the Australian Senior PGA Championship in 2024. The former winner of the Fiji International as a European Tour event along with several victories in lesser events on the secondary tour in Australia showed an impressive turnaround after missing three consecutive cuts.
17-year-old Thai golfer Colcheva Wongrass highlighted just what a future star she is likely to become by finishing just one shot out of the playoff in the mixed-gender event.
Already a two time winner on the Thai Women’s Tour and a professional since the age of 15, Wongrass gives every indication she will join the growing list of Thai female golfers now competing at the elite level in the women’s game.
