Australia’s Phoenix Campbell is compiling a breakout golf season Down Under.
First, he won the Queensland PGA Championship in early November, beating the state’s top professionals and earning a two-year exemption on the Challenge PGA Tour of Australasia. He opted to remain amateur and got busy adding to his résumé.
Last month, Campbell shot a course-record 7-under 63 at Yarra Yarra Golf Club in the third round of the Sandbelt Invitational, eventually tying for fifth and claiming the low-amateur honor in an event run by the Geoff Ogilvy Foundation.
Campbell solidified his place in his nation’s storied amateur annals Friday when he eked out a one-stroke victory in the Australian Master of the Amateurs at Southern Golf Club in Keysborough, Victoria. He closed with a 5-under 67 for a 12-under 276 total, emerging victorious when countryman Siddharth Nadimpalli bogeyed the par-4 18th hole for an otherwise flawless 66 and 11-under total. New Zealand’s Zackary Swanwick, the 36-hole co-leader, finished third at 10-under.
Campbell, 22, of Balwyn North in suburban Melbourne, entered at No. 565 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking.
William Moll, a Vanderbilt graduate student from Houston, Texas, tied for fourth at 9-under 279 to finish as the low American. Vandy teammate Cole Sherwood tied for 10th.
Third-round leader Oliver Mukherjee of Gullane, Scotland, birdied three of his first four holes and appeared poised to run away with the title. Then he played the final 14 holes in 6-over, fading to a T7 finish, four strokes behind Campbell.
Campbell joins an illustrious list of past champions at the Master of the Amateurs that includes future PGA Tour winners Jason Day and Sahith Theegala.
The Philippines’ Rianne Malixi posted a 4-under 69 in the final round for a 7-under 285 total and one-stroke victory in the women’s division. Malixi, a 16-year-old high school junior from Quezon City, has made a verbal commitment to attend Duke in the fall of 2025. She was runner-up in the 2023 U.S. Girls’ Junior.
According to Golf Australia, Campbell and Malixi will be competing this week at the Australian Amateur at Keysborough and Yarra Yarra.
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