The Northern Territory PGA Championship is a golf tournament on the PGA Tour of Australasia played at Palmerston Golf & Country Club, Palmerston, Northern Territory, Australia. The event was revived in 2016 as Tier 2 event on the tour. Since 2016, total prize money has been A$150,000, except for 2020, which was not an Order of Merit event. The 2016 winner was Jordan Zunic who beat Max McCardle by two strokes.[1]
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Location | Palmerston, Northern Territory, Australia |
| Established | 1995 |
| Course(s) | Palmerston Golf & Country Club |
| Par | 71 |
| Length | 6,563 yards (6,001 m) |
| Tour(s) | PGA Tour of Australasia |
| Format | Stroke play |
| Prize fund | A$200,000 |
| Month played | May |
| Tournament record score | |
| Aggregate | 264 Brett Rankin (2019) 264 Austin Bautista (2022) |
| To par | −20 as above |
| Current champion | |
 Daniel Gale | |
| Location map | |
  Palmerston GC Location in Australia  Palmerston GC Location in Northern Territory | |
Winners
edit| Year | Tour[a] | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tailor-made Building Services NT PGA Championship | |||||||
| 2023 | ANZ | Daniel Gale |
270 | −14 | 4 strokes | Chris Crabtree
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| 2022 | ANZ | Austin Bautista |
264 | −20 | 7 strokes | Tim Hart Ben Wharton
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| 2021 | ANZ | No tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic | |||||
| 2020 | Aaron Pike |
201 | −12 | Playoff[b] | Michael Sim
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| 2019 | ANZ | Brett Rankin |
264 | −20 | 3 strokes | Taylor Macdonald
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| MMC Northern Territory PGA Championship | |||||||
| 2018 | ANZ | Daniel Nisbet |
265 | −19 | 2 strokes | Daniel Gale Damien Jordan
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| Northern Territory PGA Championship | |||||||
| 2017 | ANZ | Travis Smyth (a) |
265 | −19 | 6 strokes | Deyen Lawson
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| 2016 | ANZ | Jordan Zunic |
271 | −13 | 2 strokes | Max McCardle
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| 1997–2015: No tournament | |||||||
| 1996 | FT | David Diaz |
208 | 1 stroke | Justin Cooper Adrian Percey Shane Robinson
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| 1995 | FT | David Iwasaki-Smith |
200 | 6 strokes | Tony Carolan
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Notes
edit- ^ ANZ − PGA Tour of Australasia; FT − Foundation Tour.
- ^ Pike won with a par on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.
References
edit- ^ Prendergast, Paul (15 August 2016). "Zunic goes wire-to-wire at inaugural NT PGA". Golf Grinder. Retrieved 7 August 2023.