Moseley & Lonard share PGA Title

Australia's Jarrod Moseley and Peter Lonard have jointly won the Australian PGA Championship after carding four-round totals of 17-under-par 271 and squaring one playoff hole in fading light.

The pair both made par on the first playoff hole, the par-four 18th, at Queensland's Coolum course before conferring with officials and shaking hands as joint winners.

Lonard started the final round five strokes behind Moseley but fired a four-under-par 68 including a 40-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole while Moseley closed with seven consecutive pars in his final round of 73.

"I would have liked to go and play one more hole or play as many more holes as we have to," Lonard told Australian television. "We've got commitments tomorrow."

Moseley said: "It's a bit unfortunate and as Pete said we have commitments tomorrow. I'm happy to be the joint champion alongside Peter Lonard.

"It's too dark now. It's just one of those things. We just ran out of light."

Moseley, 30, had been 18-under-par, leading Lonard by five strokes, when the third round was completed on Sunday morning.

The 1999 Heinken Classic winner had started the day on 16-under par with eight holes to play in the third round.

A tropical thunderstorm forced the early abandonment of play on Saturday because of the threat of lightning strikes with almost half the field still to complete the third round.

Australia's Stuart Appleby was outright third on 14-under-par 274 after closing with a 67 while former world number one Greg Norman, 47, playing to large galleries in his home state, was fourth with a four-round total of 13-under par 275.

271 Jarrod Moseley 65 66 67 73, Peter Lonard 65 68 70 68 (Joint winners after play-off cancelled due to darkness)

274 Stuart Appleby 74 67 66 67

275 Greg Norman 72 67 67 69

276 Greg Chalmers 67 70 69 70

277 Aaron Baddeley 67 65 72 73

278 Adam Scott 72 65 69 72

279 Scott Gardiner 70 72 70 67, Peter O'Malley 72 70 69 68, Greg Turner (Nzl) 66 71 71 71, Adam Le Vesconte 68 68 69 74, Nick O'Hern 70 66 71 72

280 Jason King 71 74 67 68

281 Cameron Percy 69 69 71 72, Brad King 70 68 70 73

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