Flooded course, tournament reduced to 54 holes in Brisbane…

The very heavy rains which fell on Brisbane and its region this Friday forced the organizers of the first tournament of the 2024-25 DP World Tour season to cancel the 2nd round of the BMW Australian PGA Championship. The tournament, now reduced to 54 holes, will resume from 6:00 a.m. Saturday (9:00 p.m. this Friday in France). Victor Perez occupies tied 2nd place, one length behind Australian Elvis Smylie, after posting a card of 66 (-5).

It was clearly impossible to play Golf this Friday on the Royal Queensland Golf Club from Brisbane! The heavy rains which fell in fact flooded a good part of the Australian route, forcing the organizers of the first tournament of the 2024-25 season (co-sanctioned with the PGA Tour of Australasia) to abandon any idea of ​​play in this second round.

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Reduced to 54 holes, the tournament will resume from 6:00 a.m. Saturday morning (9:00 p.m. this evening in France).

250 mm of water in Brisbane and its region…

« Torrential rain which continued throughout the morning left a number of fairways at the Royal Queensland Golf Club saturatedunderlines Jose Maria Zamorathe Director of DP World Tour for the BMW Australian PGA Championship. The route was deemed impassable today. We plan to start the second round at 06:00 on Saturday, with the third and final round on Sunday. »

The Australian Elvis Smylienative of the Gold Coast, author of a solid 65 (-6) on Thursday, is in the lead ahead of four men at -5, including Frenchman Victor Perez.

Several great Australian favorites such Jason Day, Cameron Smith et Marc Leishman are in the top 10, at -4…

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