2019 ISPS Handa Vic Open 13th Beach Golf Links 7 - 10 February FINAL FIELD 04.02.2019 1. Any former champion of the tournament at 13th Beach 1 Simon Hawkes AUS 2 Dimitrios Papadatos AUS 3 Michael Long AUS 4 Richard Green AUS 5 Matthew Griffin AUS 2. Leading 60 available players from the 2019 European Tour Exemption Categories 6 Aaron Rai ENG 7 Richard McEvoy ENG 8 Wade Ormsby AUS 9 Paul Dunne IRL 10 Jeunghun Wang KOR 11 Sam Brazel AUS 12 Kurt Kitayama USA 13 Ryan Fox NZL 14 Jorge Campillo ESP 15 Andrew Johnston ENG 16 Thomas Aiken RSA 17 Ashley Chesters ENG 18 Nicolas Colsaerts BEL 19 Scott Hend AUS 20 Ricardo Gouveia POR 21 James Morrison ENG 22 David Drysdale SCO 23 Kim Koivu FIN 24 Grant Forrest SCO 25 Stuart Manley WAL 26 Liam Johnston SCO 27 Robert Macintyre SCO 28 David Law SCO 29 Pedro Figueiredo POR 30 Hyowon Park KOR 31 Niklas Lemke SWE 32 Bernd Ritthammer GER 33 Clement Sordet FRA 34 Ivan Cantero Gutierrez ESP 35 Anton Karlsson SWE 36 Masahiro Kawamura JPN 37 Scott Gregory ENG 38 Louis De Jager RSA 39 Per Langfors SWE 40 Guido Migliozzi ITA 41 Deyen Lawson AUS 42 Daniel Gavins ENG 43 Filippo Bergamaschi ITA 44 Kristian Krough Johannessen NOR 45 Hugo Leon CHI 46 Gavin Moynihan IRL 47 Max Schmitt GER 48 David Borda ESP 49 Kristoffer Reitan NOR 50 Ben Evans ENG 51 Espen Kofstad NOR 52 Adrien Saddier FRA 53 Tom Murray ENG 54 Jinho Choi KOR 55 Oliver Wilson ENG 56 Scott Vincent ZIM 57 Callum Shinkwin ENG 58 Max Orrin ENG 59 Adam Bland AUS 60 Sihawan Kim USA 61 Matteo Manassero ITA 62 Jazz Janewattanond THA 63 Matthew Nixon ENG 64 Connor Syme SCO 65 Michael Hoey NIR 3. Exempt Amateurs selected at the discretion of Golf Australia 66 David Micheluzzi (a) AUS 67 Blake Windred (a) AUS 68 Conor Purcell (a) IRL 69 Andre Lautee (a) AUS 70 Christopher Fan (a) AUS 71 Jasper Stubbs (a) AUS 72 Jack Thompson (a) AUS 73 Nathan Barbieri (a) AUS Category 1: Winners of the PGATA OOM, AUS Open, AUS PGA Championship and the AUS Masters in the years 2014-2019 (season of victory and the following five (5) seasons) 74 Jake McLeod AUS 75 Peter Senior AUS 76 Nick Cullen AUS Category 2: Winners of other Tier 1 Tournaments in the years 2017-2019 77 Daniel Nisbet AUS 78 Jason Scrivener AUS 79 Jason Norris AUS 80 Michael Hendry NZL Category 3: Members ranked 2 – 30 from the Final 2018 PGATA OOM 81 Matthew Millar AUS 82 Anthony Quayle AUS 83 James Nitties AUS 84 Terry Pilkadaris AUS 85 Lucas Herbert AUS 86 Harrison Endycott AUS 87 Callan O'Reilly AUS 88 Jarryd Felton AUS 89 Marcus Fraser AUS 90 Ben Campbell NZL 91 Ben Eccles AUS 92 Steven Jeffress AUS 93 Nick Flanagan AUS 94 Cameron John AUS 95 Brad Kennedy AUS 96 Daniel Gale AUS 97 David Bransdon AUS 98 Josh Younger AUS 99 Gareth Paddison NZL 100 Jordan Zunic AUS 101 Aaron Pike AUS 102 Andrew Dodt AUS 103 Darren Beck AUS 104 Matthew Stieger AUS Category 4: Tournament Invites 105 Justin Harding ZAF 106 Ryo Ishikawa JPN 107 Jack Wilson AUS 108 Austen Truslow USA 109 Adrian Otaegui ESP 110 Michael Sim AUS 111 Gregory Bourdy FRA 112 Christofer Blomstrand SWE Category 5: Top 100 OWGR as at the close of entries for the relevant PGATA 113 Yuta Ikeda JPN Category 8: Winners of Tier 2 Tournaments in the years 2018-2019 114 Zach Murray AUS 115 Daniel Fox AUS Category 8 (a): Winner of most recent PGATA Q-School 116 Dylan Perry AUS Category 9: Members ranked 1-20 from the PGATA Career Money List 117 Peter Lonard AUS 118 Robert Allenby AUS 119 Peter O'Malley AUS 120 Nick O'Hern AUS 121 Geoff Ogilvy AUS 122 Peter Fowler AUS 123 Stephen Leaney AUS 124 David Smail NZL Category 10: Members ranked 31-50 from the Final 2018 PGATA OOM 125 Cory Crawford AUS 126 Max McCardle AUS 127 Andrew Martin AUS 128 Mark Brown NZL 129 Maverick Antcliff AUS 130 Damien Jordan AUS 131 Michael Wright AUS 132 Matt Jager AUS 133 Christopher Wood AUS 134 Ryan Chisnall NZL 135 Blake Proverbs AUS 136 James Marchesani AUS 137 Braden Becker AUS 138 Harry Bateman NZL 139 Ashley Hall AUS Category 11: Players ranked 2 - 5 from the most recent PGATA Q-School 140 James Anstiss NZL 141 Kade McBride AUS 142 Aaron Townsend AUS 143 Taylor Macdonald AUS Category 12: Members ranked 51-60 from the Final 2018 PGATA OOM 144 Travis Smyth AUS 145 Adam Burdett AUS 146 Peter Cooke AUS 147 Jake Higginbottom AUS 148 Scott Strange AUS 149 Jordan Mullaney AUS 150 Tim Stewart AUS 4. Pre-Qualifying 151 Andrew Kelly AUS 152 Austin Connelly CAN 153 Brady Watt AUS 154 Dale Williamson AUS 155 Andrew Evans AUS 156 Ryan Lynch AUS Pre-Qulaifying Alternates 1 Alex Edge AUS 2 Harry Goakes AUS 3 Billy Cawthorn AUS 4 Ruben Sondjaja AUS FIELD RESERVES Category 13: Leading 5 Members, not otherwise exempt through a higher Category, from the 2018 Final Tier 2 Money List (category does not slide) 1 Brody Martin AUS 2 Brett Rankin AUS 3 Rick Kulacz AUS 4 Antonio Murdaca AUS 5 Lincoln Tighe AUS Category 16: Players 6-40 PGATA Q-School 6 Nathan Green AUS 7 Mark Hutson NZL 8 Denzel Ieremia NZL 9 Brad Moules AUS 10 Campbell Rawson NZL 11 Ruben Sondjaja AUS 12 Aaron Wilkin AUS 13 Andrew Evans AUS 14 Jack Munro AUS 15 Scott Arnold AUS 16 Hayden Beard NZL 17 Charlie Dann AUS 18 Dale Williamson AUS 19 Douglas Klein AUS 20 Chang Gi Lee KOR 21 Andrew Schonewille AUS 22 Ryan Lynch AUS 23 DJ Loypur AUS 24 Matthew Cheung HK 25 Jack Murdoch AUS 26 Shae Wools-Cobb AUS 27 Peter Wilson AUS 28 Kieran Muir NZL 29 Theodore Coroneo AUS 30 Troy Moses AUS 31 Andrew Campbell AUS 32 Brady Watt AUS 33 Benjamin Stowe AUS 34 Robbie Morrison AUS 35 Cooper Geddes AUS Category 17: Leading 10 players, to ceiling of 20th position, not otherwise exempt, from 2018 PGATA Pro Am OOM 36 Alex Edge AUS 37 Jacob Boyce AUS 38 Michael Choi AUS 39 Dale Brandt-Richards AUS 40 Paul Hayden AUS 41 Ruben Lal AUS Category 18: Leading 3 players, not otherwise exempt, entered for the Tournament in question, from the Top 10 of 2018 Final New Zealand OOM 42 Dongwoo Kang KOR Category 19: Leading 5 graduates, to a ceiling of 10th position, not otherwise exempt, from the 2018 Final PGA Trainee National Averages 43 Correy Price AUS 44 Ben Murphy AUS Category 20: Leading 5 PGA of Australia Trainees (with playing invite) 45 Frazer Droop AUS 46 Michael Bainbridge AUS Full Member Tournament 47 Anthony Marchesani AUS 48 Bradley Doherty AUS 49 Bradley Lamb AUS 50 Rory Bourke AUS 51 Mitchell A. Brown AUS 52 Lucien Tinkler AUS 53 Mitchell Brown AUS 54 Tim Hart AUS 55 Ben Ford AUS 56 Jay Mackenzie AUS 57 Kieran Pratt AUS 58 Young Hyun Kim KOR 59 Ryan Haywood AUS 60 John Wade AUS 61 Will Heffernan AUS 62 Sam Rawlings AUS Full Member Vocational 63 Nathan Miller AUS 64 Shane Butler AUS 65 Benjamin Patten AUS 66 Hayden Webb AUS 67 Raffael Toperoso AUS 68 Luke Paroz AUS 69 Nick Drane ENG 70 Bradley Kivimets AUS 71 Sahil Sahib AUS 72 Bradley McGill AUS 73 William Meehan AUS 74 Nick Sapet AUS 75 Andrew Kostarakis AUS 76 Jack Paisley AUS 77 Aaron Attwell AUS 78 Thomas Jefferies AUS 79 David Stein AUS 80 Mitchell Anketell AUS 81 John Thalassinos AUS 82 Jimmy Edge AUS 83 Joshua Lancaster AUS 84 Samuel Hingeley AUS 85 Garth Cusick AUS 86 Samuel Price AUS 87 Andrew Kelly AUS 88 Gary Dowling AUS 89 Daniel Defelice AUS 90 Marcus Hakkinen AUS 91 Scott Laycock AUS 92 Wade Lowrie AUS 93 Andrew Pitt AUS 94 Matthew Buff AUS 95 Michael Isherwood AUS 96 Jason Chellew AUS 97 Peter Quanchi AUS 98 John Burbergs AUS 99 Marco Zirov AUS 100 John Price AUS 101 Christopher Hynes AUS 102 Rhys Granger AUS 103 Bronte Colbert AUS 104 Wade Hooper AUS 105 David Van Raalte AUS Non-Member Professional 106 Aaron Treacey AUS 107 Jordan Cooper AUS 108 Michael Freake AUS 109 Peter Lamaris AUS 110 Thammasack Bouahom LAO 111 Leigh Pritchard AUS 112 Michael Pearce AUS 113 Jamie Bower ENG 114 Joseph D'arcy AUS 115 George Worrall AUS 116 Matt Dowling AUS 117 Garth George AUS 118 David Backstrom SWE 119 Mark Sheppard ENG 120 Jonathan Pepper AUS 121 Marcus Both AUS 122 Kristopher Mueck AUS 123 Rohan Blizard AUS 124 Ben Ferguson AUS 125 James Gibellini AUS 126 Josh Clarke AUS 127 Sahil Singh AUS 128 Archie Nankivell AUS 129 Stephen Kennedy AUS 130 Nathan Buzimkic AUS.