Hotel Planner Tour

Tournament: Italian Challenge Open

In Dates: 7-10 May

Course: Golf Nazionale, Viterbo, Italy

Purse: €300,000

Ozzies in the field: Sam Jones (NZ), Danny List (NZ)

In our preview of the week we said it was great to see Chris Wood in the starting lineup for the Hotelplanner Tour. The Englishman has a well documented struggle with form and mental issues and for a time gave up the game. He then went to Q school for the Mena Tour, got his card and won three times on that Tour. That result earned him a spot on the Hotelplanner Tour and in his first outing he has a victory.

In his post match interview Wood was so overwhelmed by emotion that he couldn’t answer some questions about the journey he has been on to get to this point. The former world number 22 and Ryder Cup player is the epitome of guts and determination and what a great story and fantastic win.

The win puts Wood in 6th place on the Road to Mallorca with about half the points needed to secure a DP World Tour card for next year.

Chris Wood 1st - €48,000

Sam Jones (NZ) MC

Danny List (NZ) DQ

LPGA

Tournament: Mizuho Americas Open

Dates: 7-10 May

Course: Mountain Ridge Country Club, West Caldwell, NJ

Purse: USD $3.25M

Ozzies in the field: Hannah Green, Grace Kim, Steph Kyriacou, Cassie Porter, Robyn Choi, Karis Davidson, Gabbi Ruffels, Lydia Ko (NZ)

World No. 2 Jeeno Thitikul prevailed in New Jersey to take out the Mizuho Americas Open by four shots over Ruoning Yin with Alison Lee a further shot back in third.

Best of the Ozzies was Hannah Green at T14 and then Lydia Ko (NZ) at T18. Surprisingly, Englishwomen Charley Hull (+4) and Lottie Woad (+13) missed the cut (by a lot).

Jeeno Thitikul 1st – USD $487,500

Hannah Green T14 - $47,498

Lydia Ko T18 - $40,785

Grace Kim T20 - $35,918

Robyn Choi T39 - $17,455

Karis Davidson T39 - $17,455

Cassie Porter T45 - $13,259

Gabbi Ruffels MC

Steph Kyriacou MC

EPSON TOUR

Tournament: Reliance Matrix Championship presented by Epson

Dates: 7-10 May

Course: Spanish Trail CC, Las Vegas NV

Purse: USD $250,000

Ozzies in the field: Jennifer Elliot, Caitlin Peirce, Su Oh, Fiona Xu (NZ)

Colcheva Wongrass is a name familiar down under having played a number of WPGA tournaments over the last three years. This week she was the winner in Las Vegas and in doing so broke the Epson Tour scoring record finishing at twenty six under par. Wongrass won by five shots from Liqi Zeng from China.

Best of the Ozzies was Caitlin Peirce who recorded her second top ten of the season and seventy valuable Race for the Card OOM points moving her up nine spots to number thirty one.

Colcheva Wongrass 1st – USD $37,000

Caitlin Peirce T10 - $5,063

Jennifer Elliot MC

Fiona Xu (NZ) MC

Su Oh MC

LET

Tournament: US Women’s Open Qualifier

Dates: 11-12 May

Course: Buckinghamshire GC

Purse:

Ozzies in the field: Whitney Hillier, Amelia Garvey (NZ)

At the time of publication the tournament was still underway. Results in next week’s Wrap.

Lots of LET players are entered into this qualifier for the US Women’s Open, including Cara Gainer, Allesandra Fanali, Lydia Hall, Meghan MacLaren, OOM leader Agathe Laisne, the Metraux twins Kim and Morgane, and last week’s winner Smilla Soenderby.

The number of spots to advance is determined by the field size and usually varies from 2-5. The exact number will be advised closer to the date. With only 65 entries it is likely to be only two players who qualify.

PGA Tour

Tournament: Truist Championship

Dates: 7-10 May

Course: Quail Hollow, Charlotte NC

Purse: USD $20M

Ozzies in the field: Jason Day, Min Woo Lee, Adam Scott, Ryan Fox (NZ)

European names were all over the top of the leaderboard in Quail Hollow and Kristoffer Reitan became the second Norwegian to win on the PGA Tour. Reitan beat Ricki Fowler and Nicolai Hojgaard by one shot with Alex Fitzpatrick a further shot back in solo fourth.

Alex Fitzpatrick led by a shot at the start of the final day but dropped three shots in the first three holes to surrender the lead. Fowler posted the clubhouse lead at -13 but birdies by Reitan on holes 14 and 15 saw him take a two shot lead down the 72nd hole where he made a regulation par to seal his first PGA Tour victory.

Best of the Ozzies was Min Woo Lee who shot a final round seven under 64 to finish T14.

Kristoffer Reitan 1st – USD $3.6M

Min Woo Lee T14 - $360,000

Ryan Fox (NZ) 67 - $39,500

Jason Day 68 - $39,000

PGA Tour

Tournament: ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic

Dates: 7-10 May

Course: Dune Golf and Beach Club, Myrtle Beach SC

Purse: USD $4.0M

Ozzies in the field: Cam Davis, Karl Vilips, Ryan Ruffels

It has been a long wait for Brandt Snedeker – 8 years in fact – but he now has his tenth PGA Tour victory after he won the Myrtle Beach Classic.

Brandt Snedeker 1st – USD $720,000

Karl Vilips T24 – $31,857

Ryan Ruffels T45 - $11,411

Cam Davis T67 - $8,360

PGA Champions Tour

Tournament: Insperity Invitational

Dates: 8-10 May

Course: The Woodlands Country Club, Houston TX

Purse: USD $3.0M

Ozzies in the field: Michael Wright, Rod Pampling, Mark Hensby, Stuart Appleby, Brendan Jones, Greg Chalmers, Richard Green, Steve Allan, Steve Alker (NZ), John Senden (alt)

If you play 54 holes without a bogey it will lead to good things. Boo Weekly found this out this week when he won the Insperity Invitational in Houston. Weekly saw off playing partner Ernie Els in the final round to win by three shots and end a nearly 13 year absence from the winner’s circle.

Best of the Ozzies was Richard Green at T8.

Boo Weekly 1st – USD $450,000

Richard Green T8 - $76,000

Steve Allen T14 - $51,000

Stave Alker (NZ) T14 - $51,000

Cameron Percy T19 - $37,380

Michael Wright T19 - $37,380

Stuart Appleby T24 - $30,000

Rod Pampling T52 - $7,260

Mark HensbyT57 - $6,000

Greg Chalmers T72 - $2,055

DP World Tour

Tournament: Estrella Damm Catalunya Championship

Dates: 7-10 May

Course: Real Club de Golf El Prat, Barcelona

Purse: USD $2.75M

Ozzies in the field: Jason Scrivener, David Micheluzzie, Ryan Peake, Anthony Quayle, Connor McKinney, Jack Buchanan, Kazuma Kobori (NZ)

Nothing like winning your first DP World Tour tournament by a record beating 14 shots. Yurav Premlall from South Africa smashed the field finishing at twenty eight under par and fourteen shots ahead of second place Shaun Norris. The win vaults Premlall to 26th of the OOM.

Best of the Ozzies (& Kiwis) was Kazuma Kobori with a great T6. That result zooms him 24 places up the OOM to 63rd.

Yurav Premlall 1st - €398,262

Kazuma Kobori T6 - €65,830

Jason Scrivener T37 - €14,933

Connor McKinney MC

Anthony Quayle MC

David Micheluzzi MC

Ryan Peake MC

Jack Buchanan MC

Asian Tour

Tournament: Taiwan Glass Taifong Open

Dates: 7-10 May

Course: Taifong Golf Club, Chinese Taipei

Purse: USD $500,000

Ozzies in the field: Cameron John, Kevin Yuan, Maverick Antcliff, Denzel Ierema, Scott Hend, Nick Voke (NZ), Harrison Crowe, Will Florimo, Brett Rankin, Justin Warren

South African Ian Snyman got his first win on the Asian Tour in Chinese Taipei. Snyman won by two shots from Mexico’s Santiago De la Fuente and Matthew Cheung from Hong Kong.

Best of the Ozzies and Kiwis were Nick Voke and Maverick Antcliff both at T22.

Ian Snyman 1st – USD $90,000

Nick Voke (NZ) T22 - $4,700

Maverick Antcliff T22 - $4,700

Harrison Crowe T42 - $2,725

Justin Warren T68 - $1,150

Will Florimo MC

Scott Hend MC

Kevin Yuan MC

Denzel Ieremia MC

Brett Rankin MC

Cameron John MC

JLPGA

Tournament: World Ladies Championship Salonpas Cup

Dates: 7-10 May

Course: Ibaraki GC, West Course, Ibaraki

Purse: ¥150,000,000

Ozzies in the field: Lion Higo

Yui Kawamoto 1st - ¥30,000,000

Lion Higo MC

KLPGA

Tournament: 2026 NH Investment & Securities Ladies Championship

Dates: 7-10 May

Course: Suwon

Purse: ₩1,000,000,000

Ozzies in the field: Claire Shin

Hyojoo Kim 1st – KRW 180,000,000

Claire Shin MC

Sunshine Tour

Tournament: FBC ZIM Open

Dates: 7-10 May

Course: Royal Harare Golf Club

Purse: R 3,000,000

Ozzies in the field: Austin Batista

Austin Batista was on the first page of the leaderboard for most of this tournament. Ultimately he fell four shots shy of the winner, South African Altin van der Merwe. However the second place was enough to put Batista on top of the OOM.

Altin van der Merwe 1st – R475,500

Austin Batista 2nd – R330,000

LIV Golf

Tournament: LIV Golf Virginia

Dates: 7-10 May

Course: Trump National Golf Club, Washington D.C.

Purse: USD $30M

Ozzies in the field: Ripper GC: Cam Smith, Marc Leishman, Lucas Herbert, Elvis Smylie – Travis Smyth as replacement for Danny Lee in Korean Golf Club

OZZIE WINNER alert. Lucas Herbert goes wire to wire in Virginia to claim his maiden individual LIV Golf title. Herbert battled bad health all week and then had to hold of a surging Sergio Garcia but won out by four shots over the Spaniard. With his win Herbert climbed into the top three on the LIV OOM and has earned a spot in the US Open.

The Four Aces won the team event in a playoff over Fireballs GC.

Amateur Tournaments

Australian Interstate Teams

Victory for Victoria in all three titles at the Australian Interstate Teams. Victoria beat New South Wales 6-2 in the grandfinal and also clinched both the men’s and women’s individual titles. Jazy Roberts defeated Ella Scaysbrook on the 20th hole and Abel Eduard defeated Kayun Mudadana 2 up.