Richard Inexperienced has continued his dominant transition to masters golf with a tense victory on the Australian PGA Seniors Championship in Sydney.
Inexperienced frittered away a commanding five-shot lead down the stretch on Sunday, solely to birdie the final to clinch a one-stroke win over Andre Stolz at Richmond Golf Membership.
The 51-year-old completed with an 11-under 199 complete for the 54-hole occasion following a rollercoaster final-round 66, with Stolz (67) lacking a putt from the perimeter behind the 18th inexperienced whereas making an attempt to power a playoff.
A 3-time European Tour winner who completed fourth on the 2007 British Open, Inexperienced walked onto the thirteenth inexperienced 5 pictures in entrance.
By the point he cluttered his tee shot and his punch-out second shot into bushes on the par-4 seventeenth and made a 3rd bogey in 4 holes, he was tied for the lead with Stolz and in deep trouble.
However the Melburnian confirmed his metal when it mattered.
He took iron off the tee on the par-4 18th, then wedged to 2 metres and rolled within the victorious putt for birdie, launching a fist pump that spoke of his reduction.
It was Inexperienced’s fourth seniors victory of 2022, having gained twice in Europe and in Thurgoona, close to Albury, final weekend.
“To win the way in which I’ve this 12 months is unbelievable,” he stated.
“Once I was on the primary excursions they have been coming each decade form of factor, so to win 4 occasions this 12 months is an unbelievable feeling.
“And for issues to not go the way in which I wished them to go on the again 9, after which to get it, that is what let it (the emotion) out.”
Kiwi Michael Lengthy (64) and Queenslander Chris Taylor (67) shared third at 9 below, two pictures behind Inexperienced.
