It’s not often that a veteran golfer makes seven bogeys in the final round to win a tournament. But that’s exactly what it is LIFE Golf pros Marc Leishman did on sunday.
However, nerves were not to blame for Leishman’s struggles on Sunday in the 2025 Victorian PGA Championship. Instead, the culprit was the brutal conditions caused by strong winds that lifted the results.
Here’s what you need to know.
Marc Leishman battles strong winds to triumph at the Victorian PGA
Leishman, 42, has spent decades playing the world’s top golf tournaments. A six-time PGA Tour winner, he joined LIV Golf in 2022 and his winning ways continued. it captured his first LIV Golf victory this year at LIV Miami 2025 event in April.
However, over the past 17 years, none of those victories have occurred in his home country of Australia. But Leishman changed that in a big way on Sunday, winning the main event held in his home region of Victoria.
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Chasing a home win was far from easy.
This year’s Victorian PGA Championship, a PGA Tour of Australasia event, was held on the open course at Moonah Links. And on Sunday, strong winds terrorized the competitors.
The wind was so bad that among the 53 players who made the cut, none of them broke 70 in the final round.
Leishman’s own score on Sunday did not look like that of a winner. Bogeys on 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 15 and 16 put seven squares on his scorecard.
But birdies at 4 and 11 kept him in the running. His main competitor, 54-hole leader Josh Younger, also struggled in strong winds on Sunday. When they reached the par-5 18th hole, they were tied at four under.
Coming off three-straight bogeys, Younger could only manage a par on the closing hole. Leishman, however, completed a brilliant up-and-down putt to win the birdie by one stroke, his pants and shirt flapping in the wind as he stood over his final putt. His bottom line? Four over 76.
“It was a brutally tough day. I kind of knew it was going to be like that… you hope you can shoot better than that,” Leishman said of the tough weather conditions in the final round.
He continued: “On days like this, obviously you know everybody’s going to have bogeys and unfortunately I had a few early ones, but I fought back and managed to birdie the last one there, which was nice.”
In the end, it didn’t matter how high Leishman’s score was on Sunday. The only thing that mattered was that his total score was one lower than anyone else’s.
“I’m very happy that I won,” he said after his victory. “I’ve been playing well for the last … well, all year really. I’ve been hitting the ball well these last three weeks in Australia and I don’t have much to show for it results-wise, but it’s nice to come away with a win here.”
