Weekly Wrap - Week 30 OZZIE WINNER ALERT

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LETAS

Tournament: Pitch 15 Open

Dates: 23-25 July

Course: Hanbury Manor Hotel & Country Club

Purse: €50,000

Ozzies in the field: Kristalle Blum, Amy Walsh, Hannah Reeves, Belinda Ji, Munchin Keh (NZ), Wenyung Keh (NZ), Jordan O’Brien, Whitney Hillier

OZZIE WINNER ALERT

Hannah Reeves claimed her maiden European victory taking out the Pitch 15 Open in a thrilling playoff against England’s Ellen Hume. Reeves won on the fourth playoff hole.

Reeves was playing in the second last group and coming to the 18th she was -10 for the tournament and tied with Hume, in the group behind. Reeves approach to the 18th cam up quite short and left her about 25 feet for birdie which she drained to take the lead. Hume then played 18 and hit a brilliant approach to about 6 feet which she made and the pair headed to the playoff. The first three times they went back down the 18th and squared with pars w=each time. They then went back to the reachable par 5 seventeenth. Hume pulled her second shot left of the green and Reeves hit a great shot that just ran through the back of the green. Hume could not get up and down and reeve calmly two putted for a birdie and the win.

The win moves Reeves up to ninth in the OOM having only played five tournaments. In contrast the leader of the OOM, Natalie Armbuester, has played eight tournaments. Reeves also moves to third on the Rookie of the Year standings. With ten tournaments left in the season Reeves can now really push for one of the coveted top seven places on the OOM which earn LET status.

A big shoutout to the Letaccess Instagram team who livestreamed the playoff on their Instagram account. Also kudos to the everywhere woman of Ozzie women’s golf Steph Na who was on the bag for Reeves and Jordan O’biren who missed the cut but hung around to support and celebrate with the winner.

1st Hannah Reeves - €8,000

T22 Wenyung Keh - €684

MC Munchin Keh (NZ), Kristalle Blum, Whitney Hillier, Jordan O’Brien, Any Walsh

LPGA & LET

Tournament: ISPS HANDA Women’s Scottish Open

Dates: 23-26 July

Course: Dundonald Links, Gailes, North Ayrshire

Purse: USD $2.0M

Ozzies in the field: Minjee Lee, Hannah Green, Grace Kim, Cassie Porter, Robyn Choi, Karis Davidson, Kelsey Bennett, Amelia Garvey (NZ), Kirsten Rudgeley, Maddison Hinson-Tolchard, Momoka Kobori (NZ)

Jenny Shin wins again more than ten years after her first LPGA victory in 2006. Shin held onto the lead she built since the opening day and despite a final round three over par 75 she had done enough in the first three days and won by two shots from a Lim Kim.

Shin is a regular visitor to Australia and for many years has spent the summer in Oz practicing for the start of the LPGA season. She even has an Ozzie accent. Best of the Ozzies was Hannah Green in a tie for 31st.

1st Jenny Shin - USD $300,000

T31 Hannah Green - $14,716

T44 Grace Kim, Amelia Garvey (NZ) - $9,480

T56 Robyn Choi - $7,714

MC Karis Davidson, Kelsey Bennett, Kirsten Rudgeley, Cassie Porter, Momoka Kobori (NZ), Maddison Hinson-Tolchard,

WD Minjee Lee

EPSON TOUR

Tournament: Hartford HealthCare Women’s Championship presented by Munich Re

Dates: 23-26 July

Course: Golf Club of Avon, Avon, CT

Purse: USD $250,000

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

Some excitement heading into the final two rounds as Ozzies Jennifer Elliot and Caitlin Peirce shared the lead going into the weekend. Unfortunately they both fell off a little and both shooting final rounds of 72-70 on the par 71 course to finish T7. Those finishes move Elliott and Peirce to 24th and 25th on the OOM and within reach of those top 15 spots that earn LPGA cards. However with only six tournaments left in the season they both need to keep having top ten results to move up the OOM

American Christine Wang came from the clouds over the weekend with a closing rounds of 66 and 68 to score her first Epson Tour victory.

1st Christine Wang – USD $37,500

T7 Jennifer Elliott, Caitlin Peirce - $6,947

T56 Hira Naveed - $926

Mc Gabi Ruffels, Su Oh

PGA Tour

Tournament: 3M Open

Dates: 23-26 July

Course: TPC Twin Cities, Blaine, MN

Purse: USD $8.8M

Ozzies in the field: Jason Day, Cam Davis, Karl Vilips

Tour rookie Jackson Koivin took the win in only his third professional start. Koivin plays courtesy of the PGA Tour university programme. His bio from the PGA Tour is quite impressive:

“Turned professional in June 2026 after three record-setting seasons at Auburn University (2023-26), where he swept the three national player of the year awards (Ben Hogan Award, Jack Nicklaus Award, Fred Haskins Award) in both 2024 and 2026, was a three-time Southeastern Conference Player of the Year (2024, 2025, 2026), and broke school records for career wins (11), career scoring average (68.89), and single-season scoring average (68.20 as a junior in 2025-26). Led Auburn to team national titles at the 2024 and 2026 NCAA Championships. Earned the 2025 Mark H. McCormack Medal, presented annually to the No. 1 player in the World Amateur Golf Ranking following the U.S. Amateur or European Amateur (whichever finishes last). Recorded one of the best seasons in collegiate history in 2024, becoming the first freshman in history to win all four major collegiate awards -- Ben Hogan Award, Jack Nicklaus Award, Fred Haskins Award, Phil Mickelson Outstanding Freshman Award -- in the same season. Also went 3-0 in match play as he led Auburn to the team national title, the first in program history, at the 2024 NCAA Championship.”

1st Jackson Koivin – USD $1,584M

MC Karl Vilips, Cam Davis, Thomas Campbell (NZ)

Korn Ferry Tour

Tournament: Evans Scholars Invitational

Dates: 23-26 July

Course: The Glen Club, Glenview, IL

Purse: USD $1.0M

Ozzies in the field: Rhein Gibson

Quite the week for PGA Tour university graduates as Tommy Morrison wracks up his first win on the Korn Ferry Tour in jus his fourth career start. Morrison finished sixth on the PGA Tour university rankings and has KF Tour status for the rest of 2026. This win moves Morrison to eighth on the KF Tour OOM.

1st Tommy Morrison – USD $180,000

MC Rhein Gibson

PGA Champions Tour

Tournament: ISPS HANDASenior Open

Dates: 23-26 July

Course: The King’s Gleneagles, Scotland

Purse: USD $2.85M

Ozzies in the field: Steve Allan, Steve Alker (NZ), Stuart Appleby, Greg Chalmers, Richard Green, Scott Hend, Mark Hensby, Rod Pampling, Michael Wright, Mark Brown (NZ) Michael Campbell (NZ)

American Jerry Kelly pipped Ozzie Cam Percy to take out the final Senior major of the year. Percy could only muster a weekend tally of one over par whilst those around him were firing birdies all over the place.

1st Jerry Kelly – USD $447,800

T2 Cam Percy - $198,930

T14 Steve Alker - $36,480

T26 Steve Allan - $24,966

T32 Rod Pampling, Richard Green - $20,816

T37 Mark Hensby - $18,240

T45 Michael Campbell (NZ), Mathew Goggin - $13,680

T62 Michael Wright - $6,128

T75 Greg Chalmers - $3,648

MC Scott Hend, Stuart Appleby

Hotel Planner Tour

Tournament: Raiffeisenbank Golf Challenge

Dates: 23-26 July

Course: Kaskada Golf Resort, Brno, Czech Republic

Purse: €300,000

Ozzies in the field: Daniel Gale, Haydn Barron, Quinnton Croker, Sam Jones (NZ), Hayden Hopewell

Anton Albers from Germany picked up his maiden win maintaining his three shot overnight lead to beat American Alex Goff.

1st Anton Albers - €48,000

T31 Haydn Barron - €2,280

MC Sam Jones (NZ), Daniel Gale, Quinnton Crorker

DQ Hayden Hopewell (might be a W/D showing up as DQ)

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PGA Tour of Australasia

Tournament: 2026/2027 Q School Finals USA

Dates: 21-24 July

Course: Kinderlou Forest, Georgia

Purse: USD $23,000

Ozzies in the field: Tom Audley, Campbell Jones, Karan Nalam (NZ), Ernie Rose,

One Canadian and seven Americans took the qualifying spots. Thomas Giroux, Nate Jordi, John Fahey, Mitchell Bowlin, Caleb Shetler, Marcus Plunkett, Austin Gean, Alex Scott, were the qualifiers.

Canadian Giroux was the medalist with Plunkett and Jordi in a tie for second. Plunkett has Asian Tour status so we might not see too much of him downunder.

JLPGA

Tournament: Daito Kentaku eheyanet ladies

Dates: 23-26 July

Course: The Queen’s Hill GC, Fukkuoka

Purse: Y120,000,000

Ozzies in the field: Lion Higo, Momo Sugiyama

Another made cut for Lion Higo so a good week for her after her win on the LPGA development tour last week. The winner was Reina Kato.

1st Reina Kato Y21,600,000

T61 Lion Higo Y342,000

MC Momo Sugiyama

LIV Golf

Tournament: LIV United Kingdom

Dates: 23-26 July

Course: JCB Golf & Country Club

Purse: $$$$$$$

Ozzies in the field: Ripper GC: Cam Smith, Marc Leishman, Lucas Herbert, Travis Smyth

A big week for the Ozzie Ripper GC as Lucas Herbert winds the individual title with the lowest ever LIV Golf total and team Ripper GC take out the team event. Herbert is in a rich vein of form following his great week at The Open where he finished T6. Travis Smyth must just keep pinching himself as he takes home a share of the USD $3M prize for the team win.

Individual

1st Lucas Herbert – USD $4.0M

4th Cam Smith - $1.0M

T12 Marc Leishman - $340,000

T47 Travis Smyth - $50,000

Teams

1st Ripper GC - $3.0M

Amateur Tournaments

US Junior Amateur

The US Junior Amateur is being played at the Saucon Valley Country Club, Bethlehem PA. There is a sole Ozzie, Hamish Farquharson, and two Kiwis, Cooper Moore & Ryan Xie in the field. Moore was the amateur who played so well in the NZ PGA.

This year’s US Junior Amateur Champion is Noah Maclauchlan who defeated the heralded Miles Russell 6 & 5 in the final.

Ozzie Farquharson failed to get thru to matchplay. Kiwis Xie and Moore made the matchplay component after the opening 36 holes of strokeplay. Xie won his round of 64, 32 and 16 to get to the quarter final where he eventually lost to his compatriot Moore. In the semi-final Moore lost to the ultimate champion Maclauchlan.

Colorado golf Association Women’s Amateur Championship

Amy Hodgkins is interning at the Colorado Golf Association so it was just another day at the office for Hodgkins on her way to winning the championship. Rounds of 67-75-70 was enough for Hodgkins to take the title and earn a spot at the 2026 US Women’s Amateur.