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Leaderboard logjam in the first DP World Tour event of the season
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The Punter's pre-event pick still on the premises
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Local leader added with 18 to play
09:30 - November 29, 2025
After 54 holes, there are a trio of players tied at the top at the Australian PGA Championship.
Here's the 54-hole leaderboard with prices to back at 9:20.
David Puig -13 4.77/2
Anthony Quayle -13 9.417/2
Ricardo Gouveia -13 13.525/2
Min Woo Lee -12 5.49/2
Kazuma Kobori -12 13.525/2
Marc Leishman -11 13.012/1
Adam Scott -11 15.014/1
Daniel Hiller -11 17.533/2
Wenyi Ding -11 23.022/1
Cam Davis -10 36.035/1
Alex Fitzpatrick -10 42.041/1
-10 and 75.074/1 bar
Greg Chalmers won the Tournament Players Championship at Royal Queensland having trailed by four with 18 holes to play in 1997 and Brett Rumford and Craig Spence contested a playoff in that event here in 1999, having sat four and five back after three rounds, but given the course has been softened by rain and that all six course winners this century were leading or tied for the lead with a round to go, it's very hard to imagine that we'll witness another off the pace winner this week.
Spain's David Puig heads the market after his bogey-free six-under-par 65 in round three but I'm happy to swerve him.
He was disappointing in-contention at the Open de Espana last year when he eventually finished third, beaten by four, having been matched at as low as 1.331/3 when he led by three after seven holes of round four.
He's twice led trough three rounds previously and on both occasions he shot 73 in round four.
It really didn't matter at the Asian Tour's International Series Singapore in 2023 as he'd been nine clear with 18 to play but at the International Series Morocco in November 2022, his final round 73 saw him slip from two clear to third, beaten by two.
Trailing by a stroke, having hit the buffers on the back nine in round three, my pre-event pick, Min Woo Lee, is the current second favourite behind Puig but the one I like with 18 to play is one of the co-leaders, Anthony Quayle.
Quayle has twice failed to convert from the front on the Japan Tour, in 2019 and 2022, and he finished 10th at the New Zealand PGA Championship way back in 2017, having led by a stroke with a round to go, so he can hardly be described as robust in-contention but he clearly loves playing in his home state.
His two Australasian Tour victories to date, are the 2020 Queensland Open and the 2022 Queensland PGA Championship.
He was six clear with 18 to play in 2022 and tied for the lead in 2020 so he has converted on the only two previous occasions that he's been in front with a round to go in his homeland.
It's definitely a concern that he's never broken 70 on any of the five occasions that he's led or been tied for the lead with 18 to play but the Brisbane resident won't lack for support tomorrow and having Tiger Woods' is ex-caddie, Steve Williams, on the bag is huge.
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With the likes of Marc Leishman and Adam Scott just two off the lead and with 14 players separated by just three strokes at the top of the leaderboard, it's still a tricky tournament to weigh up but Quayle looks fairly priced at anything over 8/19.00.
15:30 - November 28, 2025
Play was suspended at the Australian PGA Championship due to darkness with a few groups yet to finish their second rounds but none of those within three of Kazuma Kobori's lead will need to come back in the morning to finish their second rounds so here is the current leaderboard with prices to back at 15:20.
Kazuma Kobori -10 9.89/1
Wenyi Ding -9 10.09/1
Anthony Quayle -9 16.015/1
Brett Rankin -9 48.047/1
Min Woo Lee -8 6.05/1
Tom Valliant -8 23.022/1
Ricardo Gouveia -8 65.064/1
Christopher Wood -8 140.0139/1
Marco Penge -7 11.521/2
Marc Leishman -7 15.014/1
David Puig -7 14.527/2
Daniel Hiller -7 20.019/1
Jose Luis Ballester -7 25.024/1
Cam Davis -7 28.027/1
Bernd Wiesberger -7 65.064/1
Tapio Pulkkanen -7 100.099/1
Sebastian Garcia -7 110.0109/1
Adam Scott -6 28.027/1
-6 and 55.054/1 bar
My sole pre-event pick, Min Woo Lee, was matched at as low as 5.04/1 when it looked highly likely that he would hold at least a share of the lead at halfway but he messed up his approach on the 18th hole to drop from -9 to -8 and New Zealand's Kazuma Kobori birdied the last four holes to get to -10.
Lee still heads the market, but the very recent stats suggest the frontrunning Kiwi may represent the value with two rounds to play.
The tournament was reduced to three rounds because of wet weather last year but the winner, Elvis Smylie, won wire-to-wire and four of the other five event winners here this century were also leading or tied for the lead after two spins around Royal Queensland.
The odd man out was Cam Smith three years, and he only trailed by a stroke at halfway, suggesting it's hard to make up ground here but that wasn't the case in the three editions of the Tournament Players Championship here in the three years between 1997 and 1999.
Greg Chalmers won by a stroke in '97 having trailed by six at halfway, Stephen Leaney beat the halfway leader, Corey Pavin, in a playoff in '98, after he'd sat five back after two rounds and Brett Rumford got the better of Craig Spence in extra time after the two had trailed by five and nine strokes respectively so just blindly backing the leader may be a mistake.
Of all the players withing two of the lead, Lee is most definitely the man to beat but we don't have to scan far below him to find a host of quality players.
Of the home contingent, Marc Leishman and Adam Scott command plenty of respect and so too does Anthony Quayle with Steve Williams on the bag this week.
Last week's Saudi International winner, Jose Luis Ballester, and fellow Spanish LIV golfer, David Puig, are amongst a large group of quality players tied for ninth and just three off the lead but the one I quite like at the prices available is Englishman, Marco Penge, who's another in that large group tied for ninth.
After a fairly slow start on Thursday, the three-time DP World Tour winner found his mojo in round two and I was pleasantly surprised to be able to back him at 12.011/1 to kick off the new season with a win.
Penge was a well backed 14.013/1 chance at the off so trailing by only three with two rounds to go, I was more than happy to back him at just a couple of ticks shorter.
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