+++ Ace in the first round: Daniel Gale (AUS) wins Hole-in-One car BMW M5 Touring +++ “This baby’s mine” – Gale predicts dream shot at Royal Queensland Golf Club on Wednesday +++ 2025/26 season of DP World Tour tees off with BMW PGA Australian Championship +++
Brisbane/Munich. The new season of the DP World Tour could not have got off to a more spectacular start. In the first round of the opening tournament, the BMW Australian PGA Championship at Royal Queensland Golf Club (Brisbane), spectators celebrated two aces. Daniel Gale, who pulled off the dream shot on the 11th hole (Par 3), was especially delighted. This is the hole on which the Hole-in-One prize is awarded: the new BMW M5 Touring, which launched in Australia this year. The BMW M5 Touring combines performance with characteristic design, while the plentiful space means it also impresses with its uncompromising suitability for everyday life. As a performance sports car with more than enough space for golf equipment, the BMW M5 Touring is the perfect hole-in-one car.
Gale, three-time winner of the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia, aced the hole on the 154-metre 11th an 8 iron. After the round, the 29-year-old said that it was a predicted shot: “I played in the pro-am and I said, ‘this baby’s mine’ – and it actually happened so it’s pretty crazy. In the air it was this perfect baby draw, riding the wind, and landed it perfectly and it trickled in at perfect speed as well.”
Meanwhile, Kazuma Kobori sunk the first ace of the new season on the 17th hole. He might not have been rewarded with a hole-in-one car, but the shot helped the New Zealander enter the BMW PGA Australian Championship weekend in the lead. Gale is currently in tied for 18th place with Major winner and former world number one Adam Scott (AUS), and others.
This is the second edition for which BMW is title partner of the BMW PGA Australian Championship, the newest member of the family of BMW title tournaments on four continents. The other tournaments include the BMW PGA Championship in London (ENG), the BMW International Open in Munich (both on the DP World Tour), the penultimate playoff tournament on the PGA TOUR, the BMW Championship (USA), as well as the BMW Ladies Championship (LPGA Tour) in Korea. Once again a multitude of top players are competing at the BMW Australian PGA Championship in 2025, including BMW Australia’s golf ambassadors Min Woo Lee and Elvis Smylie. They both have brilliant memories of the tournament: Min Woo Lee won it in 2023, Elvis Smylie was victorious last year.
BMW M5 Touring: Energy consumption, weighted, combined: 2.0 l/100 km [141.2 mpg imp] and 30.7 kWh/ 100 km; CO2 emissions, weighted, combined: 46 g/ km; fuel consumption with discharged battery: 10.9 l/100 km [25.9 mpg imp] in the WLTP cycle; CO2 classes, weighted, combined: B, with discharged battery G.