Sunday 6 December 2015 16:12, UK
Nathan Holman parred the first hole of a three-way play-off with American Harold Varner III and South Africa's Dylan Frittelli to win the Australian PGA championship on Sunday.
Holman, who shot a final-round one-over 73, finished level par for the tournament alongside Frittelli and Varner, who each shot 75, at the tough, wind-swept Royal Pines resort course.
Holman was forced into extra-time after two bogeys on the closing two holes saw his two-shot lead vanish, with Varner missing a birdie attempt at the 18th that would have given him the win.
Holman was the only one to hit the fairway in the play-off and he hit his second to the middle of the green before two-putting for par as Frittelli and Varner struggled for bogeys from the rough.
Zander Lombard of South Africa, who was tied for the third-round lead with Frittelli and Varner, shot 76 and finished fourth, one stroke behind the leading trio.
"It was pretty annoying to almost lose it at the end," Holman said of his bogey-bogey finish in regulation.
It was the second straight year that the tournament was decided in a playoff; Greg Chalmers won a marathon seven-hole playoff with Adam Scott and Wade Ormsby in 2014.
Holman's win continues years of Australian dominance at the PGA, which hasn't been won by an international player since New Zealand's Greg Turner in 1999.
