Grant Forrest plays Aussie Millar in first round of World Super 6 Down Under

The top-24 for the final round of the ISPS HANDA World Super 6 Perth, Australia has been released, setting up a golf fan’s delight with the exciting six-hole match-ups to take place at Lake Karrinyup Country Club on Sunday.

Players who qualified inside the top-eight have earned themselves a first- round bye with Thailand’s Prom Meesawat picking up a prize cheque for Australian dollars $25,000, courtesy of finishing in first place following the opening three rounds.
Sean Crocker (USA), Lucas Herbert (Australia) and Thorbjorn Olesen (Denmark) split another AUD $25,000 for their joint T2 finish following the three rounds of stroke play.
Aussies Dimi Papadatos and Brad Kennedy, Yusaku Miyazato (Japan) and England's Sam Horsfield  round out the top-eight automatically through to the second round.
All knock-out matches will be played over six holes of Lake Karrinyup: the 10^th (par-4), 11^th (par-5), 13^th (par -4), 14^th (par-4), 12^th (par-3), 18^th (par-4) and played in that order.
Any matches tied after the six holes will proceed to the ‘shoot-out’ hole where a sudden-death hole-by-hole play-off will be used to determine the winner. The player with the honour will be determined by toss of a coin or similar.
The shoot-out hole utilises the existing 18^th green played from a new tee box located approx 80-90 metres from the green on the right hand side of the 18^th fairway.
Getting the final round underway at 7:30am local time will be  local amateur and crowd favourite Min Woo Lee who will take on the highest ranked player in the field, World Number 37 Satoshi Kodaira of Japan. Top seed Prom Meesawat awaits the winner of the opening match.
Scotland’s Grant Forrest, pictured above, will tackle Australia’s Matthew Millar who has the benefit of having made it through to last year’s match-play stages and is one of the most consistent performers on the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia. The winner will move on to face Sam Horsfield.
Pavit Tangkamolprasert of Thailand will face Callan O’Reilly, with Olesen to take on the winner. The Dane is experienced in this format, having won the European Tour’s teams version: Golf Sixes.
Match four is an all-Aussie affair with James Nitties and Nick Cullen set to battle while another Aussie, Dimi Papadatos, awaits the winner in the second round.
Marcus Fraser (Australia) is paired against Thailand's Poom Saksansin. The winner of that match will face Lucas Herbert who, for the second year, has earned a top-eight seeding.
South Korean Yi-keun Chang and South African Zander Lombard go head-to-head with Queenslander Brad Kennedy awaiting the victor.
Following a four-hole play-off win over Anthony Quayle, Thai star Kiradech Aphibarnrat will match up with young Victorian Ben Eccles. Japan’s Yusaku Myazato waits in round two.
Finally, veteran tour professional and local hope Stephen Leaney will take on Italian Andrea Pavan, with young American Sean Crocker waiting to see whom he faces in round two.

FIRST-ROUND MATCHES
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 Stephen LEANEY v Andrea PAVAN
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Kiradech APHIBARNRAT v Ben ECCLES
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 Yikeun CHANG v Zander LOMBARD
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 Marcus FRASER v Poom SAKSANSIN
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 James NITTIES v Nick CULLEN
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 Pavit TANGKAMOLPRASERT v Callan O'REILLY
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 Grant FORREST v Matthew MILLAR
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 Min Woo LEE (am) v Satoshi KODAIRA

• • FROM THE US PGA TOUR WEBSITE

  PEBBLE BEACH, California – Last autumn Ted Potter Jr. made an ace at The RSM Classic and won a $10,000 gift card to Bass Pro Shops. He’s yet to cash it in.
  “Waiting until August for a new rifle I’m planning on ordering,” he said. “They told me I had to wait, so that’s part of it, and just haven’t had time to really do a lot of shopping with it yet.”
  Potter didn’t win a gift card on Saturday, but he put himself in position for a very big payday on Sunday thanks to his 9-under 62 at Monterey Peninsula, his lowest score in 242 career rounds on the US PGA Tour.
  That moved him to 14 under and into a tie with two-time champ Dustin Johnson, whom he’ll be paired with in Sunday’s final group at Pebble Beach. 
  For most of his round, Potter was on pace for a much lower score. Opening his round with four consecutive birdies (he started off the 10th tee), Potter added another birdie and an eagle at the par-5 16th to make the turn in 30. He quickly added two more birdies after the turn. When he birdied the par-5 sixth, he was 11 under on his round, needing just one birdie in his final three holes to shoot 59 on the par-71 layout.
  But 59, he said, was not realistic at that point. Ultimately, he closed with a par followed by two bogeys.
  “Once I got to 11 under, I thought that I could get to 60,” Potter said. “The last three holes I knew were going to be par holes basically anyway. I didn’t feel like I hit bad shots coming in there on the last couple making bogeys there. I just knew it was going to be tough coming in.”
  

  Added playing partner Scott Piercy: “Those last three holes are brutal … the face that he made a bogey or two coming down the stretch, I mean, he played awesome. Hat’s off to him. It was a pleasure to watch.”
  Other than his T-13 at The RSM Classic, Potter’s recent results did not foretell this week’s performance. He had missed five cuts in his last seven starts and comes of a T-73 at the Farmers Insurance Open when he opened with a 66 but closed with an 82.
  Form, he reminded, isn’t the only predictor of success.
  “Sometimes it’s just one little swing though that triggers you into the right direction,” Potter said. “Everybody out here has a ton of talent; they just got to figure out what makes them click or what motivates them or whatever that way. Sometimes it’s just something simple. You just never know when it’s going to turn on for you.”
• Potter, the 246th ranked player in the world, will be seeking his second US PGA Tour win; Johnson, world No. 1, is seeking his 18th.