Top Australian golfer confirmed to play in Fiji

By Aliki Bia

Wednesday 16/07/2014

Top Australian golfer Matthew Griffin [Photo:golfworld]

Top Australian golfer Matthew Griffin has confirmed his participation in the inaugural Fiji International Golf Championship next month.

Griffin who won the KPGA Championship last week will return to Natadola Bay Championship Golf Course, the place that helped

Launch his career.

Griffin won the 2009 Fiji Open and will return to the challenging course with fond memories.

With major winners Vijay Singh and Nick Price as well as Indian rising star Anirban Lahiri also taking part, Griffin acknowledges that the competition will be fierce.

Being played for a US$1 million prize purse the Fiji International will be co-sanctioned by the PGA Tour of Australasia and OneAsia.

The Fiji International will be played at Natadola Bay Championship Golf Course from 14th to 17th August and will be Fiji’s first internationally broadcast golf tournament.

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