Jediah Morgan leads the Australian PGA Championship by 9 photographs coming into the ultimate spherical.

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An Australian golfer, in a weird incident this week on the Australian PGA Championship, reduce his hand whereas attempting to select up a stake, suffered “fairly heavy bleeding” and was compelled to withdraw.    

Particulars of the incident are unclear, however Damien Jordan, based on a tweet from Golf Australia’s Jimmy Emanuel, tried to maneuver the stake at Royal Queensland Golf Membership someday throughout the first spherical and “sliced his hand the whole width from prime to backside. Fairly heavy bleeding so off to see a physician.” The web site 7news.com.au additionally reported the accident, and the leaderboard on the PGA of Australia’s web site reveals no scores for Jordan. 

Jordan is ranked 1,715th on the planet, and he’s been as excessive as 530th, in 2017. A month in the past, he gained the MI Organics Yamba Professional-Am on the adidas PGA Professional-Am Collection, and he’s additionally the 2017 Victorian PGA Championship winner. 

Via three rounds on the Australian PGA, Jediah Morgan holds a whopping nine-shot lead, whereas on the inaugural Australian WPGA Championship, which is being held concurrently, Su Oh leads by two. Min Woo Lee, who’s gained twice on the DP World Tour (the previous European Tour) is 14 strokes again of Morgan. 

The Australian PGA, one of many premier occasions in Australia, was canceled in 2020 resulting from Covid, and final yr’s version was postponed to this week. The earlier winner, in 2019, was Adam Scott, and different previous champions embrace Cameron Smith, final week’s Event of Champions winner on the PGA Tour; Harold Varner III; Greg Norman; Seve Ballesteros; and Gary Participant.

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