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One of the best Golf Courses on the Murray River!
A popular attraction for locals, and a must see for visitors new to the Swan Hill Region. Murray Downs Golf Club features an award winning 18-hole championship golf course, located a short drive over the bridge from Swan Hill. The Clubhouse is open 365 days per year, offering bistro and café meals 7 days, weekend breakfast, entertainment, 3 floodlit bowling greens and more.
Whether you’re looking for a golfing getaway with friends, planning a function or looking for a night out in a family friendly atmosphere, look no further than the Murray Downs Golf and Country Club.


Play & Stay Package: 2 NIGHTS FROM $320pp!


It truly is one of the best Golf Courses on the Murray!
RICH RIVER GOLF CLUB | MARCH 16-19
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Harrison Crowe
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Age: 21
State: NSW
Biggest win: 2022 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship
Haydn Barron
Age: 27
State: WA
Biggest win: Spalding Park Open (2021)
OOM ranking: 16 wanting you to do the player pro le pages. link below with photos of the golf course if we want
OOM Ranking: N/A are also attached- happy too use that blue and white
Bio: Harrison Crowe is undoubtedly one of Australian golf’s brightest up-and-coming stars and returns to the Play Today NSW Open as the defending champion. The 21-year-old last year won the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, and with it the right to play at the 2023 edition of most prestigious of the golfing majors, The Masters, as well as The Open, which will be held at Royal Liverpool.


Bio: A late bloomer in a professional golf sense, Barron turned pro in 2022 at the age of 26. But that hasn’t held the Western Australian product back at all, as he has qualified to play in The Open Championship at Royal Liverpool this year after he holed out for an eagle at the Australian Open on the final hole, finishing in a tie for fourth.
Brendan Jones
Age: 48
State: ACT
Biggest win: New Zealand Open (2023)
OOM ranking: 2
Bio: Brendan Jones has been highly successful on the Japan Tour, notching up 15 wins, and also played on the US PGA Tour in 2005. Unable to play in Japan throughout the global pandemic, Jones has had somewhat of a career revival after winning the New Zealand Open two weeks ago, which has seen him vault to second on the PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit leaderboard.
Mathew Goggin
Age: 48
State: TAS
Biggest win: ANZ Tour Championship (1998), Panama Claro Championship (2011, 2015)

OOM ranking: 106
Bio: Mathew Goggin has been a prolific winner on the Web.com Tour, having taken out five wins on what is now called the Korn Ferry Tour. Goggin’s five wins rank him seventh all time for wins on the tour, with his most recent win coming at the 2015 Panama Claro Championship. In 2009, Goggin recorded a fifth-place finish at The Open Championship, his best result at a major.


Michael Hendry
Age: 43
Country: New Zealand
Biggest win: New Zealand Open (2017)
OOM ranking: 6
Bio: Michael Hendry has leapt up the PGA Tour of Australasia leaderboard after winning the Vic Open this year, seeing him sit in sixth place with two events to go, giving him a real shot at taking out a DP World Tour card to play in Europe next season. Hendry has won 15 times as a professional, also qualifying for and playing in The Open Championship twice.

Matthew Griffin
Age: 39
State: VIC
Biggest win: New Zealand Open (2016)
OOM ranking: 76
Bio: Matthew Griffin is a three-time winner on the PGA Tour of Australasia, as well as a winner on the OneAsia and Korean tours. Griffin’s wins include the Victorian Open (2014) and the New Zealand Open (2016), while he has also taken out the 2013 OneAsia Tour Order of Merit, winning twice en route to that title.

Louis Dobbelaar
Age: 21
State: QLD
Biggest win: New Zealand PGA
Championship
OOM Ranking: 23
Bio: Louis Dobbelaar is one of the future stars of Australian golf, with the 21-year-old claiming his first professional win at the New Zealand PGA Championship. Dobbelaar has shown promise throughout his short career, being crowned the Australian Amateur Champion in 2021, and enjoying top three finishes at the Australian PGA Championship and Queensland PGA Championship in consecutive weeks in early 2022.
Nick Flanagan
Age: 38
State: NSW
Biggest win: US Amateur (2003)
OOM Ranking: 58
Bio: Nick Flanagan has been a big name since his amateur days, when he took out the 2003 US Amateur to become the first non-American winner since 1971. Flanagan won promotion to the US PGA Tour by virtue of his wins on the Web.com Tour, where he won three events in 2007. Flanagan won his latest event at the Cathedral Invitational last year, and is currently playing on the development tour in America.

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Jake McLeod
RICH RIVER GOLF CLUB | MARCH 16TH-
Age: 28
State: QLD
Biggest win: NSW Open (2018)
OOM ranking: 42
Andrew Martin
Age: 38
State: VIC
Biggest win: Victorian PGA Championship (2022)
OOM ranking: 4 wanting you to do the player pro le pages. link below with photos of the golf course if we want are also attached- happy too use that blue and white
Bio: Jake McLeod turned professional in 2015, enjoying a breakout year in 2018, during which he won the PGA Tour of Australia Order of Merit, as well as the NSW Open at Twin Creeks Golf and Country Club. His third-round score of 62 set a new course record. McLeod played on the PGA European Tour in 2019, and made his only major appearance to date at The Open Championship.
Brad Kennedy
Age: 48
State: QLD
Biggest win: New Zealand Open (2011, 2020)
OOM ranking: 65
Bio: Brad Kennedy has enjoyed success both domestically and internationally, recording wins on the PGA Tour of Australasia and the Japan Tour. Fourteen times a professional winner, Kennedy’s biggest wins have come in New Zealand, having won two editions of the New Zealand Open in 2011 and 2020, as well as the New Zealand PGA Championship, which he won in 2016. Kennedy also won the PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit for the 2020/21 season.
Elvis Smylie
Age: 21
State: QLD
Best result: Runner-up NSW Open (2021)
OOM ranking: 15
Bio: Elvis Smylie is just one of many of Australia’s up-and-coming stars, claiming a handful of top-10 finishes in domestic events such as the TPS Victoria tournament (third, 2023) and the Vic Open, where he finished tied for sixth place this year. Smylie has played a number of events on the European Tour also, but his best result came at the 2021 NSW Open, where he finished tied for second just three strokes off the lead. He is the son of former tennis professional Liz Smylie.

Peter Lonard
Age: 55
State: NSW
Biggest win: 2005 MCI Heritage (US PGA Tour Event), Australian Open (2003, 2004)
OOM ranking: 112
Bio: Peter Lonard is a legend in terms of Australian golfers, being one of the Australians to have made the leap to win on the elite US PGA Tour. A two-time Australian Open champion, Lonard has twice won the PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit, taking out the 1996/97 and the 2003 editions. Lonard has previously won the 2004 NSW Open, which was held at Liverpool Golf Club.


Bio: Andrew Martin has enjoyed success domestically in Australia, winning the Australian Amateur Championship in 2004. Martin broke through for his biggest professional win in 2021, claiming the TPS Sydney tournament, also securing a world record by hitting a remarkable four eagles in one round. Martin is in contention for a top three finish in this year’s Order of Merit, with his high-ranking position courtesy of a win at the VIC PGA Championship.
David Micheluzzi
Age: 26
State: VIC
Biggest win: WA PGA Championship (2022)

OOM ranking: 1
Bio: David Micheluzzi is enjoying a stellar season, sitting atop the leaderboard for the PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit. Micheluzzi broke through for his first professional win last year, claiming the WA PGA Championship, and claimed another win this year at the TPS Sydney tournament. Standing more than 200 points clear of second place with two events to go, Micheluzzi is primed to win a card for the European Tour.
Kyle Michel
Age: 26
State: VIC
Best result: Runner-up Victorian Men’s Amateur Championship (2018)
OOM ranking: 30
Bio: Touted as one of the biggest junior stars while playing as an amateur, Kyle Michel has endured a tough start to his professional career. While he may be without a win, he has shown plenty of the promise that had him regarded so highly, putting himself in contention at multiple tournaments, including the Gippsland Super 6 tournament, which he lost in the final playoff round to Tom Power Horan last year.
Tom Power Horan
Age: 30
State: VIC
Biggest win: Gippsland Super 6 (2019, 2022)
OOM ranking: 5
Bio: Tom Power Horan remains in contention to take out one of the three European Tour cards available for the PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit this year, sitting in fifth place with two events to go. Power Horan has won twice on the Australasian Tour, taking out the inaugural Gippsland Super 6 tournament in 2019, before becoming the first twotime winner of the event last year.



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