Flint says goodbye to amateur golf with Federal win
BY Bruce Young | Australian Mens Amateur Tour | 2004 Federal Amateur Open Championship | Wrap | 05 Oct 2004
In what may well be his swansong in major amateur golf events, Queenslander Gavin Flint has added yet another title to his remarkable list over the last eighteen months, by taking out the Federal Open in Canberra by one shot over Victorian Marc Leishman.
In a field that included Eisenhower representatives Jarrod Lyle, Michael Sim and James Nitties, Flint led from the opening day to add this title to the New South Wales, Victorian and New Zealand Amateur Championships that he currently holds. He also won the Northern Territory Open recently and played a key role in Queensland’s recent win at the Interstate series by winning all five of his singles matches.
A decision by Flint to commit to the first stage of the USPGA Tour School, may well have cost him a spot in the Australian Eisenhower Team as that clashes with the event in Puerto Rico in late October, but he knows as he heads to the US that he is likely in the best form of his life.
Flint leaves for Houston in the next two weeks to prepare himself for stage one of qualifying, where he plays at the Blackhorse Golf Club in Cypress near Houston, starting on October 26th. The top twenty at that venue will advance to stage two spread over two weeks and starting on November 10th.
Andrew McKenzie was third in the Federal Open, one behind Leishman, with Michael Sim in fourth place.
