Two-time Australian Open golf champion Frank Phillips, who additionally gained tournaments in Singapore and Kong Kong, has died, PGA Australia stated in a press release Wednesday. He was 90.
PGA Australia stated Phillips died Tuesday at a nursing residence in Bowral, south of Sydney, the place he had lived the previous few years.
Phillips gained 23 tournaments worldwide together with the Australian Open twice — 1957 at Kingston Heath and 1961 at Victoria Golf Club, each in Melbourne — and he tied for second with Jack Nicklaus to complete behind Gary Player on the 1965 Australian Open. He additionally gained the New South Wales Open 5 occasions and the Singapore Open and the Hong Kong Open.
He performed within the US Masters twice, within the U.S. Open and on the British Open, the place he positioned twelfth at St. Andrews in 1964.