After 54 holes of stroke play, the final day of the ISPS HANDA World Super 6 Perth will adopt a match play format to determine the winner of the inaugural title.
The top 24 players in the field will compete in five rounds of match play, with the top eight receiving byes into the second round. Five players – Sam Brazel, Phachara Khongwatmai, Matthew Millar, Jeev Milkha Singh and Duncan Stewart - earned their place in this stage of the tournament after coming through a three-hole play-off.
The 18th hole, used for the third round play-off, is one of the holes to make up the Super 6 that will be in use in the final round. Here’s a breakdown of each hole:
Hole 2 – 468-yard par four
Ranked as the hardest hole this week, the par four second yielded just 29 birdies over three rounds, compared to 83 bogeys or worse. Par is considered a good score here, with only 46 per cent of players getting up and down for par after missing the green in recent years. Staying in position on this hole could be crucial to taking an early lead.
Of the players who will be competing on Sunday, David Bransdon and Hideto Tanihara have the best cumulative score on the second hole this week at two under par.
Hole 8 – 220-yard par three
This tough par three favours faders with its left-to-right layout. This week there have been 42 birdies and 48 bogeys or worse, meaning, once again, par is a decent score on the seventh hardest hole this week.
Jeev Milkha Singh will feel confident when he steps onto this tee having made two birdies on this hole in consecutive days earlier this week.
Hole 10 – 368-yar par four
This short par four has a fairway bunker set well down the fairway which will cause long hitters, like Spaniard Pep Angles, to carefully consider their options off the tee. Nonetheless players will consider this a birdie hole, particularly given its average of 3.94 over the last few years and the fact that 77 birdies have been made here this week.
Brett Rumford and Casey O’Toole are the only players left in the field who have birdied the hole every day this week.
Hole 11 – 553-yard par five
Just like the tenth, players will view this par five as a strong opportunity to make a birdie. A bunker sits in the middle of the fairway to catch players’ tee shots, but it’s worth noting that just six per cent of scores recorded here in previous years have been bogey or worse.
Angles and Jason Scrivener are among the players to have made birdies on all three days at the 11th, ranked the second easiest hole of the week.
Hole 12 – 148-yard par three
The downhill 12th may be short, but it will be important to hit its small green. Of the six holes set to be in play tomorrow, the 12th is one of just two holes that every player left in the field is par or better on for the week.
However, nobody has a better cumulative score than two under, with Phachara Khongwatmai and Johannes Veerman among them. Top seed Brett Rumford is only even par for his three attempts on the 12th.
Hole 18 – 444-yard par four
This uphill dogleg-left final hole will prove a real test. It ranked as the second hardest hole on Moving Day and the fourth hardest of the week. In fact, none of the eight players who contested the play-off were able to score better than par. Missing the green makes things considerably tougher, but the large surface with its multiple run-off areas means nothing is a given even if the green is found in regulation.
Steven Jeffress has the best overall score on this hole of the men left in the field at two under par.
