BRISBANE, Australia -- Brett Rumford became the second amateur in a week to upstage the professionals when he won the Australian Players Championship in a four-hole playoff with Craig Spence on Sunday.
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| Brett Rumford was the 1998 Australian Amateur champion. |
Rumford's triumph follows 18-year-old Aaron Baddeley's shocking win in last week's Australian Open.
Rumford, 22, holed a 25-foot birdie putt at the fourth extra hole at the par-73 Royal Queensland Golf Club.
Both Rumford and Spence had parred the playoff hole -- the par 4 18th -- three times in sudden death.
Rumford, the 1998 Australian amateur champion, had earlier fired a closing 5-under 68 to tie at 12-under 280 with Spence who had a closing 67.
They finished one shot clear of Craig Parry, Brett Partridge, Brad King and Scotland's Raymond Russell.
Spence didn't get the title, but he collected the first-prize money of $95,000.
