TWO-TIME Australian Masters champion Brad Hughes will make a rare tournament appearance in the $120,000 Victorian PGA Championship at Creswick next month.
Hughes made a return to the Australasian PGA Tour in last year’s Australian Masters – the tournament he won in 1993 and 1998.
Hughes still holds the Masters record of 268 or 24 under par, which he shot in the second of his victories.
While never a contender in the event last year, he made the cut.
The 44-year-old Hughes, who is based in South Carolina in the United States, has an outstanding golfing pedigree.
Hughes turned professional in 1988, playing the PGA Tour of Australasia, European Tour (1990 and 1996), Japan Tour (1992-94), US PGA Tour (1997-2002 and 2005) and US Nationwide Tours (2003-04 and 2006). He has won in Australia five times, once on the Nationwide Tour and also represented the Internationals in the 1994 Presidents Cup.
Hughes focuses largely on golf tuition these days, having last played on the Nationwide Tour in 2009.
Meanwhile, two of Australia’s newest members of the OneAsia Tour will also line up in the Adroit Insurance Group Victorian PGA at the Forest Resort on February 16-19.
Kalem Richardson and Stephen Dartnall each secured one of 20 spots at the OneAsia qualifying school in Malaysia last week.
Just four Australians earned a tour card at the Sutera Harbour course.
Entries were yesterday on the brink of topping 150 for the event, which will have three days of special events before the opening of the championship.
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