It’s not often that a veteran professional golfer makes seven bogeys in the final round to win a tournament. But that’s exactly what LIVGolf pro Marc Leishman did it on Sunday.
However, nerves aren’t to blame for Leishman’s struggles Sunday at 2025 Victorian PGA Championship. Instead, the culprit was brutal conditions brought on by high winds that caused scores to skyrocket.
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Marc Leishman battles high winds to triumph at Victorian PGA
Leishman, 42, has spent decades playing on the world’s top golf tours. A six-time PGA Tour winner, he joined LIV Golf in 2022 and his winning path continued. He scored his first LIV Golf victory this year at LIV Miami 2025 event in April.
However, over the past 17 years, none of these victories have come in his homeland of Australia. But Leishman turned things around on Sunday, winning the first event held in his home region of Victoria.
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The quest for a home victory was anything but easy.
This year’s Victorian PGA Championship, a PGA Tour of Australasia event, was held at the Moonah Links Open Course. And on Sunday, violent winds terrorized the competitors.
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The wind was so strong that of the 53 players who made the cut, none of them exceeded 70 in the final round.
Leishman’s score Sunday didn’t look like a winner’s score. Bogeys at 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 15 and 16 put seven boxes on his scorecard.
But birdies at 4 and 11 kept him in contention. His main competitor, 54-hole leader Josh Younger, also struggled in the strong winds on Sunday. When they got to the par-5 18th hole, they were tied at four under.
After making three consecutive bogeys, Younger was only able to make a par on the final hole. Leishman, however, made a nifty back-and-forth for birdie to win by one shot, his pants and shirt whipping in the wind as he stood over his final putt. His final grade? A four out of 76.
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“It was an extremely tough day. I kind of knew it was going to be like this…you hope you can shoot better than that,” Leishman said of the tough weather conditions in the final round.
He continued: “Days like this, obviously you know everyone is going to have bogeys and unfortunately I had a few early, but I fought through it and managed to birdie the last one, which was good.”
Ultimately, it doesn’t matter how Leishman scores on Sunday. All that mattered was that his total score was one point lower than anyone else’s.
“I’m really happy to have won,” he said after his victory. “I’ve been playing well lately…well, all year actually. I’ve been hitting the ball really well the last three weeks in Australia, without much to show for it in terms of results, but it’s nice to come away with a win here.”
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What makes Sunday’s triumph even more special for Leishman is that he had his father, Paul, on the bag as a caddy this week.
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