+++ 23-year-old Spaniard triumphs at Royal Queensland Golf Club (Brisbane, AUS) +++ Top-class start to the 2025/26 DP World Tour season +++ Daniel Gale (AUS) wins the new BMW M5 Touring with an ace +++
Munich/Brisbane. 44 years after the unforgettable Seve Ballesteros, a Spaniard has once again won the Joe Kirkwood Cup. At the first tournament of the new season on the DP World Tour, David Puig completed a flawless weekend with victory at the BMW Australian PGA Championship. The 23-year-old carded rounds of 68, 67, 65 and 66 stokes for a with a total score of 266 (-18) at the Royal Queensland Golf Club, the venue for the golf competitions at the 2032 Summer Olympics. Wenyi Ding (CHN, -16) finished in second place.
Puig put in an impressive performance on the way to his first victory on the DP World Tour, recording 13 birdies on his last 40 holes without dropping a single shot. Third place was shared by the winner of the 2017 BMW Championship, Marc Leishman (AUS), and Nick Voke (NZL, both -15). Min Woo Lee (AUS), the 2023 BMW PGA Champion, and Daniel Hillier (NZL, both -14) finished tied for fifth place ahead of major champion and former world number one Adam Scott (AUS, -13).
“It means the world for sure. I was really looking forward to that first professional win on the DP World,” said Puig. “I was pretty close a few times throughout the last couple of years, but I wasn’t able to get it done. My name being with Seve’s name as the only two Spaniards to have won this prestigious event makes it even more special.“
The BMW Australian PGA Championship had already started with a bang. In the first round, Australian Daniel Gale (-12, T8) scored an ace on the 11th hole (par 3), for which he was rewarded with the Hole in One Prize, the all-new BMW M5 Touring. 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.“
The BMW PGA Australian Championship was the first of three BMW title tournaments on the DP World Tour calendar. It will be followed by the BMW International Open (July 1-5, 2026, Golfclub München Eichenried, GER) and the ‘Festival of Golf’, the BMW PGA Championship (September 15-20, 2026, Wentworth Club, ENG). Tickets for the BMW International Open are available with a Christmas discount of ten percent until December 24, 2025 at:
https://www.bmw-golfsport.com/en/content/tickets.html
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.