Daniel Gale wins second PGA Tour of Australasia title
Daniel Gale with his rather unique trophy – image Australian Golf Media
New South Wales golfer, Daniel Gale has won his second PGA Tour of Australasia event by bookending his week with rounds of 65 to take out the NT PGA Championship at the Palmerston Golf Club near Darwin.
Gale opened with a round of 65 on Thursday and was still ahead of the field on Friday but fell two off the pace when Victorian Andrew Kelly took the lead through 54 holes.
Gale though would reel off another round of 65 on Sunday and despite a bogey at the last was able to comfortably win by four over Queensland’s Chris Crabtree.
Kelly would eventually finish in a share of 3rd place with Queensland’s Tim Hart, Victorian Matias Sanchez, and West Australian Ben Fergusson.
For Gale the win comes five years after his breakthrough victory at the PNG Open in 2018 but he has been four times runner-up in the meantime and this victory is seen as a deserved win.
Gale has recently returned from several months in the US where amongst other things he Monday qualified for the PGA Tour’s 3M Open in which he recorded a round of 60 just to get into the tournament. Although he missed the cut in that event, it was further experience for the talented 27-year-old.
