TORQUAY golf pro Ben Eccles is looking forward to a well-deserved break in the coming months as the end of the PGA Tour of Australasia approaches.<\/p>\n
Eccles has had a successful 2022-23 season, incuding a win at the WA Open in October and a runner-up finish at the Victorian PGA Championship in November.<\/p>\n
The WA Open title was Eccles’ first win on the tour in eight years, but the 29-year-old still has a few more events to complete before the end of the season.<\/p>\n
“2023 was a great year for me personally, I sort of had no real expectations,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I had to go back to Q School back in April and sort of went into the new season thinking if I could just apply myself the way I want and play my style, the results would then speak for themselves.”<\/p>\n
Eccles is now competing at the Heritage Classic and will play in this year’s Vic Open from February 1-4, all four Webex Player Series events in Rosebud, Cobram, Sydney, and Hunter Valley, and the New Zealand Open from February 29 to March 3.<\/p>\n
Eccles will need to lodge respectable scores to receive an invitation to The National Tournament from March 14-17.<\/p>\n
He is also ranked second behind Min Woo Lee in the Order of Merit with 340.37 points heading into this weekend.<\/p>\n
“The win in WA and the second-place finish at the PGA event were definitely the highlights of my year, but I feel like I can keep that going this year,” Eccles said.<\/p>\n
“I’ll be pretty rusty after a bit of a break, but the mindset is something I still want to have as I did at the start of the season.<\/p>\n
“If I can back myself in, I believe I can have a couple more good results so I’m looking forward to the challenge.”<\/p>\n
Following the conclusion of the PGA Tour of Australia, Eccles is looking to take a sizeable break from between the middle of March to November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TORQUAY golf pro Ben Eccles is looking forward to a well-deserved break in the coming months as the end of the PGA Tour of Australasia approaches. Eccles has had a successful 2022-23 season, incuding a win at the WA Open in October and a runner-up finish at the Victorian PGA Championship in November. The WA […]<\/p>\n