European Tour Member Peter Fowler of Australia, winner of the 1993 BMW International Open, has taken first place at the Australasian leg of International Final Qualifying (IFQ) for the 134th Open Championship.
The 45 year old took the first available Open Championship spot at Kingston Heath Golf Club, Melbourne, Australia, with a two round aggregate of five under par 139, and was closely followed by his fellow countrymen, David Diaz (three under par) and Martin Doyle (level par), who took second and third place to qualify for golf’’s oldest Major Championship, to be played at the Old Course, St Andrews, Scotland, from July 14-17.
Fowler, Diaz and Doyle are joined by Australian Nick Flanagan, who secured the fourth and final Open Championship place available at Kingston Heath GC after a four man sudden-death play-off. Flanagan finished the regulation 36 holes in one over par 145 and defeated Australian pair of Shannon Beck and Nathan Green as well as Andrew Tschudin of South Africa at the third hole of the play-off.
Flanagan, 20, played in last season’’s Open Championship having won the 2003 US Amateur Championship.
