DP WORLD TOUR - 2023 Australian Open and South African Open

[billyspan]

Dec 1-4, 2022

 

ISPS HANDA Australian Open - Mixed Event (Men & Women)

Victoria GC and Kingston Head GC, Melbourne, Australia

• Men's defending champion is Matt Jones (2019)
• 6th oldest professional tournament, first being played in 1904 (same year as the first Canadian Open)
• The winner receives the Stonehaven Cup.
• Co-sanctioned with the PGA Tour of Australasia

 

INVESTEC South African Open Championship

Blair Ahtoll Golf & Equestrian Estate, Lanseria, Johannesburg, South Africa

• Defending champion is Daniel van Tonder (2021)
• 4th oldest professional tournament, first being played in 1903.
• Co-sanctioned with the Sunshine Tour

 

 

 

Edited November 30, 2022 by billyspan
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[Ferguson]

Sometimes I feel bad when I see views of a thread and no replies. 

 

 

Great post.  Thanks for sharing. 

[subrew]

I watched the Handa event last night.  Loved the mixed format, and wish other events followed.

[golfortennis]

The Australian announcers were almost as bad as their US counterparts with Woods when it cam to Cam Smith last night.  Good grief.  Surprised they even acknowledged anyone else on the course or in the field.

 

 

[Titleist99]

3 hours ago, golfortennis said:

The Australian announcers were almost as bad as their US counterparts with Woods when it cam to Cam Smith last night.  Good grief.  Surprised they even acknowledged anyone else on the course or in the field.

 

 

This X1000.....LOL! I remember saying to myself during the telecast "is this how the announcer and analyst acted during Tiger's reign?"

 

The fawning was terrible. I felt embarrassed for them.....

[billyspan]

Cam Smith and Leishman testing out that cut line...

 

Courses look great. Do yourself a favor and tune in!

[Chopper Dave]

The Aus open courses look great but as mentioned the day 1 viewing was garbage. Day 2 coverage has been better so far 

[ALIF]

Course is great. Hate the format. I want to watch only the men’s Ozzie open. Not the women’s or the disability opens. Tuned in for about 30 minutes but couldn’t take it. Will not be watching. Too bad. 

[SwingBlues]

11 minutes ago, ALIF said:

Course is great. Hate the format. I want to watch only the men’s Ozzie open. Not the women’s or the disability opens. Tuned in for about 30 minutes but couldn’t take it. Will not be watching. Too bad. 

 

Yep, not a fan of the format either but I will watch it to see Adam, Davis and Lonard play <= great to see him back on the Leaderboard. Yonks ago, I remember following him and Chalmers at the Vic Open. Amazing players both of them especially Lonard

[MattyO1984]

Good to see Adam Scott go low today! Seems to be talking himself up into having a good season coming up, maybe a little preview of that today.

[Rapidcat]

Well I'm a big fan of the format as I like watching women's golf as much as men's and I think the coverage is tremendous considering they are handling multiple events over 2 courses that don't share a border (2.5 miles apart).

 

Can understand the comments about the parochialism of the commentators and yes, it was/is like that with Tiger, too.

 

There is almost no filler of booth chatting whilst no golf is shown and sometimes even dead air time (LPGAT particularly for the latter).

 

Courses are tremendous (I've played both many times) for tourney golf but are playing easy due to Melbourne's La Nina wet weather so greens are a touch more receptive and slower than usual. With 90+ deg f forecast for the weekend the greens will dry out and we should see some increased drama on and around the greens.

 

Two wonderful courses, there are another 10 similar within a few miles of these, that's Melbourne sandbelt.

 

One other thing - nice to see the coverage focus on shot making rather than putting.

[subrew]

I'm thinking the coverage will settle in a bit after both cuts.  Right now there is just so much happening, and you can tell they don't have a huge camera or on-course field.  So they have feature groups getting most of the action.

 

I'll be curious if they still keep the men and women in separate groups/pairing on the final day.  Except for the logistics of the different tee box locations (which often aren't very far apart) and one of the holes playing as a par 5 for the women, I can't really think of why the leading man and leading woman shouldn't be paired together.  They aren't competing against each other, so perhaps that takes away a bit of the drama and/or mind games of having the top 2-3 players grouped together.

[billyspan]

oh man, Australian getting nasty (and old-school British Open-like) with a 54-hole cut.

[jdl]

Cam already starting to forget how these "cuts" work. 🤣

 

 

[elwhippy]

The Australian courses are magnificent. Amazing greens guarded by properly penal bunkering. Would love Adam Scott to win. 

[iBanesto]

Adrian Meronk looking very solid in the final round at the moment with a 3 shot lead going into the final 9.

 

🇵🇱

 

 

[grm24]

 

Looks tike it will be 9 for 16 soon.

[Malvern]

On 12/2/2022 at 1:31 PM, Chopper Dave said:

The Aus open courses look great but as mentioned the day 1 viewing was garbage. Day 2 coverage has been better so far 

Very disjointed having 2 courses/3 events, suspect they only had "skeleton" coverage at Kingston Heath since they weren't going to be there on the weekend. 

[iBanesto]

2 hours ago, iBanesto said:

Adrian Meronk looking very solid in the final round at the moment with a 3 shot lead going into the final 9.

 

🇵🇱

 

 

 

Congratulations to Meronk on his 2nd DPWT win.

 

He was aggressive and solid all day which was topped with an eagle on the last.

 

[billyspan]

The (British) Open Qualifying Series continues at the ISPS HANDA Australian Open at Victoria and Kingston Heath from 1-4 December. Will post the qualifiers...

 

I believe the Joburg Open and NOT the South African was a qualifier as well.

[billyspan]

Per Geoff Shackelford:

151st Open qualifiers: Min Woo Lee (3rd), Haydn Barron (T4) and Alejandro Canizares (T4) were the top three qualifiers not already exempt to the The Open at Royal Liverpool. Lee and Barron are Australians, while Canizares is from Spain and recently lost his DP World Tour card. 

[billyspan]

Some history re: the 54-hole cut from PGA.com:

 

The (British) Open’s current format is what’s known as a single cut, though the championship was played under a double cut rule from 1968 through 1985, with one cut after 36 holes, and another after 54 holes.