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Nick Cullen Victorious at the Queensland Open
South Australian Nick Cullen has claimed
the Isuzu Queensland Open at Brookwater
Golf and Country Club.
Firing a 3-under 69 in the final round, Nick
Cullen claimed victory with a tournament
total of 9-under 279.
“I felt really good, I had been playing well
and my swing feels good. I just hung in
there, went through my routine shot by
shot and tried to stay in the moment – it
worked out well,” said Cullen.

“The whole time I was weary that Pom
was really close, he was only two, three,
even one shot behind me for a lot of
the day.”
“This course can really eat you up every
hole so two shots is nothing, honestly
until I was 15 feet away on the last I
wasn’t ready to relax.”

Cullen started the day with a one shot
lead thanks to his course record round
on Saturday.

The Isuzu Queensland Open is the first
victory on the PGA Tour of Australasia for
the 29-year-old South Australian.
“I am feeling great, it’s been a long time
between wins so to finally have another
one feels awesome,” said Cullen, who
won the 2012 Indonesia Open.

“It was really important yesterday, I would
have been a fair way of the pace ifI hadn’t
shot such a good score.”

“It makes my season a lot easier, it gives
me status next year and it will let me look
at playing US qualifying school.”

“To get myself in front and in a good
position was vital, it made it a lot
easier today.”

“It just takes the pressure off and it’s
great to know I can win again.”

Opening with a birdie Cullen extended
his lead over the field with just two
blemishes on his score card.
“I birdied the first two, it was really great
to get off to a good start because around
a course like Brookwater if you get off to a
bad start it’s hard to recover.”

Unable to catch Cullen was three time
European Tour winner Peter O’Malley
who finished five shots back at 4-under
the card.
“I just made a few too many mistakes on
the back nine; I made all my birdies on
the front nine this week but it was great
to be in contention and back playing golf,”
said O’Malley.

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“Nick played fantastic golf, he went out
and just did everything right so full credit
to him.”
After a 4-under 68 in the final round
Victorian PGA Champion David McKenzie
finished outright third on 2-under 286.
The only other player under par for the
Isuzu Queensland Open was New Zealand
Open champion Jake Higginbottom who
finished outright fourth at 1-under 287.
A further shot back at even par and tied
fifth were Victorian Scott Laycock, West
Australian Jason Scrivener and New
Zealander Ryan Fox.
Finishing the Isuzu Queensland Open
as the leading amateur was 15 year old
Victorian Ryan Ruffels with a tournament
total of 5-over 293. (Pictured below)