Peter Senior keeps blasting away age barriers but insists he surprised himself by storming home to win his third Australian Masters title at age 56.
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It was the veteran’s 34th professional win and follows his triumph at the Australian Open in 2012.
“Huntingdale isn’t an overly long course but the next two weeks, the courses are a little bit longer than this one and I think I will have my work cut out for me but Huntingdale is right up my alley”, he said.
“But it’s wonderful some of the things that have happened the last few years”.
The 56-year-old Senior announced his intentions early with two birdies on his first two holes, before another pair of birdies on the sixth and seventh helped cancel out two bogies in the two holes prior. It was just great. “It sort of encouraged me”.
Scott made two birdies in the first five holes, but then had a double-bogey 7 on the par 5 7th.
Millar has a one-stroke lead over compatriot Andrew Evans, who went through qualifying to enter the tournament.
Tournament favourite Adam Scott has fallen disappointingly short in his quest to claim a third Australian Masters title.
Senior picked the wrong club for his approach on the 18th, landing it in a greenside bunker, but completed a nerve-wracking up-and-down to save par before Evans crumbled with a bogey on the last.
Evans’ late collapse saw him fall to a tie for second place at 6-under overall, alongside John Senden and American amateur Bryson DeChambeau.
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Scott paid tribute to Senior, saying: “He’s based his career around being very accurate and precise and he’s a hell of a competitor”.
