Marc Leishman battled brutal conditions to win the 2025 Victorian PGA Championship on Sunday. Courtesy of PGA of Australia on X.com
It’s not often that a veteran pro golfer makes seven bogeys in the final round to win a tournament. But that’s exactly what LIV Golf pro Marc Leishman did on Sunday.
However, nerves were not to blame for Leishman’s struggles on Sunday at the 2025 Victorian PGA Championship. Instead, the culprit was brutal conditions brought on by high winds that sent scores soaring.
Marc Leishman battles high winds to triumph at Victorian PGA
Leishman, 42, has spent decades playing the world’s top golf tours. A six-time PGA Tour winner, he joined LIV Golf in 2022, and his winning ways continued. He captured his first LIV Golf victory this year at the 2025 LIV Miami event in April.
Over the past 17 years, though, none of those wins occurred in his home country of Australia. But Leishman changed that in a big way on Sunday, winning the premier event held in his home region of Victoria.
The pursuit of a home win was anything but easy.
This year’s Victorian PGA Championship, a PGA Tour of Australasia event, was held at the Open Course at Moonah Links. And on Sunday, high winds terrorised the competitors.
The wind was so bad that among the 53 players who had made the cut, none of them broke 70 in the final round.
Leishman’s own score on Sunday did not look like one belonging to a winner. Bogeys at 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 15 and 16 put seven squares on his scorecard.
But birdies at 4 and 11 kept him in the running. His main competitor, 54-hole leader Josh Younger, also struggled in the high winds on Sunday. When they arrived at the par-5 18th hole, they were tied at four under.
Coming off three-straight bogeys, Younger could only manage a par at the closing hole. Leishman, however, completed a nifty up-and-down for birdie to win by one shot, his pants and shirt whipping in the wind as he stood over his last putt. His final score? A four-over 76.
“It was a brutally tough day. I sort of knew it was going to be like that… you hope you can shoot better than that,” Leishman said of the difficult weather conditions in the final round.
He continued: “On days like this, obviously you know everyone’s going to be having bogeys and unfortunately I had a few early, but fought back and managed to birdie the last there which was nice.”
Ultimately, it didn’t matter how high Leishman’s score was on Sunday. All that mattered was that his total score was one lower than anyone else’s.
“I’m really happy to get a victory,” he said after his win. “I’ve been playing well for the last … well, all year really. I’ve been hitting the ball great these last three weeks in Australia with not a whole lot to show for it results wise, but it’s nice to walk away with a win here.”
Making Sunday’s triumph even more special for Leishman was that he had his father, Paul, on the bag as his caddie this week.
This article originated on Golf.com
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