Magenta Shores Golf & Country Club, on the Central Coast of New South Wales, welcomes a strong field this Easter weekend as the Ladies European Tour (LET) and WPGA Tour of Australasia co-sanction the Women’s NSW Open, where a prize purse of $500,000 is on offer in addition to the Jan Stephenson Trophy.
The New Zealanders are emerging as one of the best brother-sister acts in the world of golf and on the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia and the WPGA Tour of Australasia.
New Zealand’s Kazuma Kobori has buried the demons of a final round collapse at the Victorian PGA Championship to complete a two-stroke victory at the Webex Players Series Murray River at Cobram Barooga Golf Club.
For the first time since Jo Mills defeated Sarah Kemp at the fifth extra hole in the inaugural Women’s NSW Open in 2006, the tournament went into extra time, but not before a wild chain of events that saw the lead change hands numerous times on the back nine.