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2025 Sanwell Cottesloe Open Sunday 11 May

11th May 2025

With: Phil Ryan

Live scoring at pga.org.au here (can click on arrows for options and also click for hole by hole scoring)
Round. 2 draw (click on down arrow)

 

An exciting finish is coming up Sunday 11 May as the 2025 Sanwell Cottesloe Open concludes. All are welcome to see the action live at Cottesloe Golf Club and live scoring and draws can be seen at pga.org.au links above.
Round 1 Saturday report follows and the full rich 77 year history of the second longest running Open event on the West Australian golf calendar can be seen in the tournament preview and event history at bottom of this post.

The Sanwell Cottesloe Open sees the Professionals chasing a purse of $30,000 and 13 invited Senior Professionals compete for a separate purse of $10,000 in the Sanwell Senior Invitational for the Lyndsay Stephen Memorial Trophy. Our 38 amateurs in the field also in pursuit of the Kelly Rogers Medal for leading amateur, that trophy named for legendary Cottesloe member Kelly Rogers who won 7 Cottesloe Opens, including the first four from 1948.

Round 1 Report: Matias Sanchez leads by 3 after a course record 9-under 63
The annual Cottesloe Open is often the source for new updated course records. Our preview wondered if a new course record would be set and indeed it was, with Victorian Professional Matias Sanchez landing a 9-under 63. That lowered the current course record of 64 by 1, that record set by Nathan Barbieri on the Sunday round last year when winning.
Matias Sanchez leads by three from  Cameron John, Aiden Didone and West Australian’s Jose De Souza on 66. Curtis Luck and Louis Dobbelaar also looming on 67. Kathryn Norris with a 1-under 71 did best of our three WPGA professionals competing.

It was a hot scoring Saturday. A new course record of 9-under 63, 16 eagles landed, 20 of the field breaking 70 and 45 players even par 72 or better. The field enjoyed a Cottesloe Golf Course in great condition and favourable weather with minimal wind in round 1 Saturday.

Top 10 Saturday hole by hole

 

 

 

 

 

 



Course Record: 9-under 63 to Matias Sanchez
Melbourne based professional Matias Sanchez was out at 8.10am and fired an opening  drive onto the par four first, missed the eagle but reported later he felt off and running with the opening birdie. An eagle on 4 and birdies on the  5th and 9th saw him out in 31. He avoided a double bogey on 10 with an up and down from 70 metres after a tree rebound to his feet on his second shot.  11 saw another bogey with a missed putt from 6 feet after a chip from back fringe. Matias then got rolling again with a birdie on 12 and a drive 3 wood eagle from 6 feet on 14 which was then followed by birdies 15, 16, and 17  to stand on 18th tee 9-under. While that was just a closing par on 18, it was a stunner. Matias was in trees left, chipped out to about 100 metres, went over the pin to back of green and calmly rolled in downhill from outside 30 feet for a closing par and a new course record. 

A delighted Matias was happily pictured afterwards with his course record card and was fulsome in praise for the course condition with the immaculate 777 greens getting a special mention, in what was his first ever round at the Cottesloe course! Congratulations to Matias and spectators will be able to see him first hand in the final group Sunday out 12.40pm 1st tee.

Local members were understandably out early in support of Cottesloe’s great champion and member since 2006 in Curtis Luck, contesting just his second Cottesloe Open as a Professional. Curtis had been a shot away second in 2024.
Curtis was in the marquee 7.30am group of New Zealand Open winner Ryan Peake and DP World Tour star Jason Scrivener. At day’s end the honours in the group were with Luck with 5-under 67, Scrivener a 69 and Peake an even par 72. Luck was hitting the ball in impressive fashion and boosted by eagles on 8th, an 8-iron to 8 feet and on 16 from just two feet. His marquee shot of the day came when his driver on the drivable 16th landed on and looked a hole in one chance as it worked across the slope, settling 2 feet away for a tap in eagle. Members will be out in force in round 2, with Curtis in second last group at 12.30pm.

 

Kelly Rogers Medal for leading amateur: Connor Fewkes leads with 68
Connor Fewkes, WA Amateur team Captain playing out of Mt Lawley, leads the talented amateur field of 38 players with 4-under 68 . The leading Amateur is awarded the Kelly Rogers Medal. Fewkes leads from his fellow WA State team members in Josiah Edwards, Adam Baillie and Spencer Harrison all on 70. Josiah Edwards is the defending Kelly Rogers Medallist.

Sanwell Senior Invitational for the Lyndsay Stephen Memorial Trophy.
pga.org.au Senior Invitational tournament page here
An invited field of 13 are playing within the tournament for the Sanwell Senior Invitation for a separate purse of $10,000 and the honour of joining the names of the Lyndsay Stephen Memorial Trophy. The event is a Non-OOM event on the PGA Legends Tour.
Our senior professionals were paired together and  their scoring was pretty solid as well, every player under 80. Victorian Tim Elliott with 4-under 68 will take a 1 shot lead into Sunday’s final round, leading from Terry Pilkadaris on 69 with Scott Barr and David Diaz in touch on 72.
Our Senior Professionals will be out Sunday in groups from the 10th tee 12.00 noon to 12.40 with Scott Barr, Terry Pilkadaris and Tim Elliott in the 12.40pm 10th tee group.

Cottesloe players: 8 members in action
A total of eight Cottesloe members, including Curtis Luck a member since 2006, were in action. Overall our players apart from Curtis and amateur Jack Stanton not quite finding their home ground advantage. Cottesloe players and round 2 times can be seen here:

Jack Stanton lit up the front nine when out in 31, before bogeys on 10 and 11 with long range three putts. The 12th saw a tough bounce into trees and then a rebound back past him on a recovery ultimately saw a well saved bogey. Thirteen Jack was unlucky buried in a grassy face of the left bunker and a lip out putt saw a double bogey to be back to square. A birdie on 14 was offset by a bogey on 17 and a closing par for 72.

Tournament Preview and Event History here:

Tournament links:    PGA Australia Tournament page. 
     Round 1 Draw Cottesloe Open          Round 1 draw Senior Invitational

On Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 May, Cottesloe Golf Club, 173 Alfred Road in Swanbourne, plays host to the 2025 Sanwell Cottesloe Open, celebrating 77 years in the running of the event, the second longest continually running Open event in Western Australia after the WA Open. Spectators welcome!

A purse of $30,000 is on offer for professionals in the Sanwell Cottesloe Open and $10,000 on offer for the 13 players contesting  the Sanwell Cottesloe Senior Invitational for the Lyndsay Stephen Memorial Trophy, played within the 36 hole event. The elite amateur field playing will also be chasing the sought after Kelly Rogers Medal awarded to the low amateur. Thirty amateurs have won the Cottesloe Open since 1948.
Draws and live scoring can be seen at PGA Australia Tournament links above

Spectators welcome – free entry:
Cottesloe Golf Club especially welcomes all spectators over the weekend, with tee off from 7am both days. 
Entry is free, parking available and with access to all clubhouse facilities. Attendance brings the chance to follow the play close up and see rising amateur stars compete alongside great well known professionals and senior professionals.
Cottesloe Golf Club are thrilled that our great champion and member  Curtis Luck returns for his second Cottesloe Open as a Professional. Curtis was shot away second in 2024 behind Nathan Barbieri and the marquee grouping of Curtis Luck, Ryan Peake and Jason Scrivener are out at 7.30am 1st tee Saturday and will attract great up close and personal spectator interest.

Thank you to our sponsors:

Cottesloe Open Professionals will compete for a purse of $30,000 as part of the Adidas PGA Pro-Am Series and Invited Senior Professionals will also compete within the tournament in the Sanwell Senior Invitational for the Lyndsay Stephen Trophy for a purse of $10,000 as part of the PGA Legends Tour. Our grateful thanks again to our major sponsor Sanwell Plumbing and Civil, (Cottesloe member Fred McMurray) supported by group sponsors from our long-running Sanwell Corporate Classic that will be played Friday 9 May.

Sanwell Corporate Classic Friday 9 May – always a great day:

 

In the lead up to the Open on Friday 9 May, naming sponsor Sanwell Plumbing and Civil (Cottesloe Member Fred McMurray) will join other tournament sponsors, in playing the long-running and very popular Sanwell Corporate Classic. The Sanwell Corporate Classic allows sponsor groups to enjoy the course in fantastic tournament condition, with many having a guest professional in their group.

The Corporate Classic dinner after the golf also a chance to salute our past Champions and all past Cottesloe Open winners are invited to the dinner, proudly wearing their past Champions Blue Jackets.

Details and history of the three events within the Cottesloe Open follow:

Cottesloe Open – events for Amateurs, Professionals and senior Professionals

The Sanwell Cottesloe Open event – open to all eligible starters.
The Sanwell Cottesloe Senior Invitational for the Lyndsay Stephen Memorial Trophy.
The Kelly Rogers Medal – awarded to the leading amateur.

Cottesloe Open History:

 

Seven players have won the coveted Cottesloe Open twice, which includes our very own Cottesloe course architect and Honorary Member, Graham Marsh, who won as an amateur in 1967, and then as a professional in 1968.Roger Mackay won three titles as an amateur in 1980, 1981, and 1982. Roy Draddy, Cottesloe professional during 1962-1969, won the Open on three occasions, 1961, 1963, and 1966. Terry Gale won four, 1969, 1973 as an amateur and 1976, 1977 as a professional and Kelly Rogers heads up the list with an impressive seven Cottesloe Open wins, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1954, and 1963. 

 Sanwell Cottesloe Senior Invitational – Lyndsay Stephen Memorial Trophy

Lyndsay Stephen Memorial Trophy 2014-2024

Since 2014 a  great feature of the Cottesloe Open has been the attendance and participation of some great senior professional names, contesting  the Sanwell Cottesloe Senior Invitational section within the event. Popular Professional Lyndsay Stephen passed on  25 February 2021 aged 64 years and is now commemorated with the winner of the Senior Invitational being awarded the Lyndsay Stephen Memorial Trophy since 2021. Lyndsay was a popular figure in the Golf Industry and a decades-long supporter of the Cottesloe Open.
The Senior Invitational field  compete for a separate prize money of $10,000 and forms part of the PGA Legends Tour (non order of merit) and will see thirteen invitees play this year. Those playing include past Cottesloe Open winners winners in Wayne Smith (1985),Tim Elliott (1987) and Craig Mann (1988) who all love a return to Cottesloe. Draw for the Senior Invitational players follows and defending champion is Jaason Norris who won with a solid 139 in 2024. Tim Elliott (2014) Wayne Smith (2015/2016) join Jason Norris as past winners of the Senior Invitational  playing.

Kelly Rogers Medal – Leading Amateur

The Cottesloe Open is a well-supported event by amateurs.  A state ranking event for our male amateurs and the leading amateur is awarded the Kelly Rogers Medal that honours Cottesloe amateur great, Kelly Rogers, who is pictured above receiving the 1949 Cottesloe Open, one of his seven wins. Kelly was a Cottesloe Member 1938 until his passing in 2002.Since 2003 the leading amateur in the Cottesloe Open has been awarded the Kelly Rogers Medal.

Over the past 75 years, 30 winners of the Open have been amateurs, however none since Michael Foster in 2007. This year again sees a strong field of leading state amateurs in the field with the event being a ranking event The field includes our 2025 Men’s State Team members just completed the Interstate Series at Melville Glades this week.
State team member Josiah Edwards was the 2024 Kelly Rogers Medallist with a great 135 and the amateur stars have the talent to add their name to the Cottesloe Open Trophy as well.

Australian WPGA Stars on show as well:
It was great to have female WPGA Professionals Jess Whitting and Kathryn Norris play in 2024, adding richness to the great diverse tournament.Female players play from the full red tee course and participate in the Cottesloe Open event and prize money. Jess set a new official course record for women of 68 in round 2 Sunday last year after Kathryn had set a new mark of 69 one the Saturday.
Delighted that Jess and Kathryn will be joined by WPGA professional Tatiana Wijaya who was number one qualifier at the December 2024 WPGA Qualifying school. Tatiana plays out of Royal Fremantle when Perth based but Cottesloe Golf Club proud she was a Cottesloe member 2010-2014 when completing school prior to College at Pepperdine in California. While at Cottesloe Tatiana was our Junior Girls Champion in 2011 and in 2013 Runner-up to Minjee Lee in the 2013 State Amateur Championship. The 2013 WA Amateur a memorable one for Tatiana, beating no less than Hannah Green 3&1 in the semi-final before she met a rampant Minjee Lee in the final on Minjee’s home course RFGC and Minjee put on a sub-par clinic winning 12&11.

Course Records coming up?:
The Cottesloe Open has seen some great scoring over our history. 

The 2024 Cottesloe Open was the first open tournament on our now fully complete Graham Marsh designed course. With a further year of settling in players and spectators will see a course in fabulous condition with the 777 greens and challenging pin opportunities bringing risk and reward.

The current course records were set at the 2024 Cottesloe Open. Nathan Barbieri set the men’s with 64 on Sunday after Curtis Luck and Braden Becker had set anew current course low of 65 on Saturday. For our women players, Jess Whitting set the new record of 68 on Sunday in 2024 after Kathryn Norris had set a new mark of 69 on Saturday.
The scoring records for Cottesloe Open and Kelly Rogers Medal since 2003 can be seen following.

Good scoring been a feature of Cottesloe Opens in the last two decades. Andrew McKenzie’s 14-under 130 in the Club’s Centenary Year of 2008 the lowest winning score. Brody Ninyette’s 10-under 134, also 2008, is the lowest scoring Kelly Rogers Medallist for leading amateur:

We wish all competitors the very best for a great weekend of golf. Live scoring will be available on links at top of post and reports and photo galleries will be uploaded here  during the tournament. 

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