Queenslander Cory Crawford has produced a comeback for the ages to score a one-shot victory in the Vic PGA Championship at Moonah Links. More than seven years after his lone Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia victory – in Port Moresby in 2017 – Crawford recorded his second win after at least two years of struggle with a back fracture that was not originally diagnosed. Crawford, who plays out of Sanctuary Cove, holed a right-to-left 12-foot birdie putt at Sunday's 72nd hole which ultimately secured the victory at 14-under par. But before he could relax, he had to hit the driving range to keep warm while American Tyler McCumber came down the par-5 18th. McCumber was at 13-under and needed birdie for to force a playoff.
The Floridean missed the green left with his long iron second shot, chipped up to just more than two feet, and had that putt for four to extend the contest. But inexplicably, the man who has played 60 times on the US PGA Tour and who had looked the winner for much of the day, missed the putt and could only make a par. Out on the range 100 metres away, the news passed through to an elated Crawford.
