Brett Rumford became the second amateur in a week to upstage the professionals when he won the Australian Players' Championship after a play-off yesterday.
Rumford, 22, holed a 25-foot birdie putt on the fourth play-off hole at the par-73 Royal Queensland course to beat fellow Australian Craig Spence.
The win by Rumford followed amateur Aaron Baddeley's stunning triumph in the Australian Open in Sydney last weekend.
Rumford, the 1998 Australian amateur champion, had fired a closing five-under-par 68 to tie with Spence, who had a closing 67.
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The pair parred the play-off hole, the par-four 18th, three times in their sudden-death battle before Rumford won.
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