The 2024 NSW Open heads to the Murray Downs Golf and Nation Membership within the NSW south-west with Australia’s finest main professionals to play for a record-setting prize purse of $800 000.
Final held in March 2023, the NSW Open, which tees off from November 14 to 17, returns to the spring/summer time window on the Australasian PGA Tour schedule for the primary time in 5 years.
The 2024 NSW Open and the whole males’s regional Open sequence is supported by the NSW Authorities’s tourism and main occasions company, Vacation spot NSW.
Stuart Fraser, CEO of Golf NSW, was thrilled to announce this yr’s prize purse and match date.
“This yr’s NSW Open presents a implausible alternative for us to make sure the match maintains its standing as essentially the most prestigious State Championship on the Australian golf calendar.”
“Wealthy River proved to be a superb venue for final yr’s Championship, and the crowds we noticed all through the week proved how thirsty the general public are for elite match golf. We all know Murray Downs might be simply as profitable,” Mr Fraser added.
The 2023 champion, Victoria’s David Micheluzzi confirmed his standing as one of many sport’s rising stars along with his victory at Wealthy River, whereas since occurring to compete on the DP World Tour.
PGA of Australia CEO Gavin Kirkman mentioned the NSW Open can be a significant spotlight of the 2024/25 Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia.
The 2023 NSW Open champion Victorian David Micheluzzi.
“The NSW Open has an exquisite historical past with an excellent record of previous champions, and we’re trying ahead to seeing who provides their identify to the trophy at Murray Downs, one of many fantastic programs now we have in our regional areas,” Mr Kirkman mentioned.
“We’re very appreciative of the NSW Authorities and Golf NSW’s excellent ongoing help of our Tour {and professional} golf typically as we proceed to develop the sport throughout our area.”
Rated one among Australia’s main regional golf programs and #1 alongside the Murray River, the par-72 Murray Downs Golf and Nation Membership was designed by Ted Parslow and opened in 1991.
Whereas the record of gamers topped NSW Open Champion is spectacular, together with a few of the best names in Australian Golf, comparable to World Golf Corridor of Fame inductees Kel Nagle, Greg Norman and Peter Thomson.
Different names to raise the Kel Nagle Cup embody Norman Von Nida, Frank Phillips, Ian Baker-Finch, Ted Ball, Billy Dunk, Peter Lonard, Jack Newton, Peter O’Malley, Craig Parry, Bob Shearer, and Ian Stanley.
Six amateurs are additionally on the record of Champions, together with five-time winner Jim Ferrier, Owen Beldham, Tony Gresham, Rick Kulacz, Ben Eccles and Harrison Crowe.
Go to www.nswopen.com for extra info.
