"VAN" (Sports Desk - 23.07.2025) :: One of 10 Australians contesting the final senior major championship of 2025, Steve Allan will be available to Australian media ahead of the ISPS HANDA Senior Open starting Thursday in London.
Now in his second year on the PGA TOUR Champions in the US, Allan has won twice this year, first with son Liam on the bag at the Galleri Classic and, most recently, with son Joey serving as caddie at the DICK'S Open.
Designed in 1900 by two-time Open champion Willie Park Snr, the Old Course at Sunningdale has crowned a host of Australian winners dating back to Norman von Nida at the 1948 British Masters.
Twenty years later, Peter Thomson joined “The Von” as a British Masters champion at Sunningdale while both Greg Norman (1986) and Peter Senior (1990) enjoyed European Open wins at Sunningdale.
Prior to it being bestowed major championship status, Karrie Webb was triumphant in the Women’s British Open staged at Sunningdale in 1997, finishing eight strokes clear of American Rosie Jones.
Seventeen Aussies endeavoured to play their way into the field at Final Qualifying across four venues on Monday, Brisbane’s Murray Lott still hopeful of a start as sixth alternate.
It has been 24 years since Ian Stanley became the first and only Australian to date to win the Senior Open, Stewart Ginn’s Senior Players Championship victory a year later the last Australian success in senior majors.
With a heavy presence on the PGA TOUR Champions this year, hopes will be high that the drought can be broken.
Allan has won twice this season, Mark Hensby had a share of the lead all week at the US Senior Open and Richard Green returns to the Senior Open having finished second to KJ Choi last year at Carnoustie.
There is also a strong Kiwi presence with 10-time Champions Tour winner Steven Alker joined by Michael Campbell, Michael Long and recent Legends Tour winner on debut, Mark Brown.
All four rounds of the ISPS HANDA Senior Open will be broadcast live on Fox Sports and Kayo, coverage to begin at 10.30pm each night through to 4am.
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