YEAR OUT HELPS TROY COX HEAD AUSSIE PGA TOUR Q SCHOOL
FROM THE PGA OF AUSTRALASIA WEBSITE
A year away working as a tree lopper and concreter's labourer ended with New South Wales golfer Troy Cox resurrecting his career by winning the PGA Tour of Australasia qualifying school today
A nervous Cox dropped two shots in the last three holes at Victoria's Peninsula Country GC, but his closing two-under-par 70 and 11-under 277 still left him three strokes clear of second-placed Steve Jeffress of Queensland.
"My game sort of fell apart toward the end today," said Cox.
"I haven't been in that situation for about 15 years.
It means a second crack at a tour career for the 31-year-old from Katoomba in the New South Wales Blue Mountains, who missed tour school last year after not realising he'd failed to keep his card in his one season on the tour in 2011.
Cox said the year of manual labour had allowed him to build some much needed funds.
He collected $4000 for his win but that was very much secondary to getting automatic starts in all tour events through 2013, starting with the Victorian PGA on January 17-21 and including big money events the Perth International, Australian Open, Australian PGA and Australian Masters at the end of the year.
The top 10 players in the Q-school all earned full exemptions for 2013.
Joining Cox and Jeffress inside the mark were Neven Basic (New South Wales), John Wade (Victoria), Brett Rankin (Queensland), Grant Scott (New South Wales), Brad Lamb (Victoria), Leigh Deagan (Victoria), Dimi Papadatos (New South Wales) and Tom Bond (South Australia).
Others earning lesser status on the tour for 2013 included former winners in Brad Hughes and New Zealander Phil Tataurangi plus 16-year-old Kota Kagasaki who, at the age of 13, played an exhibition match against Tiger Woods in Japan.
A year away working as a tree lopper and concreter's labourer ended with New South Wales golfer Troy Cox resurrecting his career by winning the PGA Tour of Australasia qualifying school today
A nervous Cox dropped two shots in the last three holes at Victoria's Peninsula Country GC, but his closing two-under-par 70 and 11-under 277 still left him three strokes clear of second-placed Steve Jeffress of Queensland.
"My game sort of fell apart toward the end today," said Cox.
"I haven't been in that situation for about 15 years.
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"So I am rapt. I came to tour school just wanting to get through but to win it is just fabulous."It means a second crack at a tour career for the 31-year-old from Katoomba in the New South Wales Blue Mountains, who missed tour school last year after not realising he'd failed to keep his card in his one season on the tour in 2011.
Cox said the year of manual labour had allowed him to build some much needed funds.
He collected $4000 for his win but that was very much secondary to getting automatic starts in all tour events through 2013, starting with the Victorian PGA on January 17-21 and including big money events the Perth International, Australian Open, Australian PGA and Australian Masters at the end of the year.
The top 10 players in the Q-school all earned full exemptions for 2013.
Joining Cox and Jeffress inside the mark were Neven Basic (New South Wales), John Wade (Victoria), Brett Rankin (Queensland), Grant Scott (New South Wales), Brad Lamb (Victoria), Leigh Deagan (Victoria), Dimi Papadatos (New South Wales) and Tom Bond (South Australia).
Others earning lesser status on the tour for 2013 included former winners in Brad Hughes and New Zealander Phil Tataurangi plus 16-year-old Kota Kagasaki who, at the age of 13, played an exhibition match against Tiger Woods in Japan.
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