Victorian Steve Allan has joined a select group of some of the greats of Australian golf with a third PGA TOUR Champions win of the season at the Boeing Classic.
Trailing former Open Champion Stewart Cink by four strokes at the start of the final round in Washington, Allan didn’t take the lead until he got up-and-down from the bunker for birdie on the 18th hole to round out a 7-under 65 and post 15-under par.
It was then a waiting game, Cink making par at both of his final holes to come up one stroke short and secure Allan his third title in his past 13 starts in just his second year on the seniors circuit.
Given he hadn’t won anywhere since the 2002 Australian Open in his home state, it’s a run the 51-year-old is finding hard to fathom.
“I can’t explain it actually,” Allan said immediately after his victory.
“I would have probably laughed if you told me I would have won three times. I definitely thought that I had a win in me, but I wouldn’t have said three.
“I think I found a bit of a groove with my swing. I think I’m more aware of what I’m doing wrong when it goes wrong.
“I had a fairly tough few years there so when things do start to go wrong there, I’m not panicking anymore.
“Beginning of last year I had a few tournaments where I didn’t play very well, so I’m going into today, just let it happen.
“I’m not trying to force it, I’m not trying to push it, I’m just trying to play.”
Allan becomes just the fifth Australian with three or more wins in a single season on the Champions Tour, joining Peter Thomson (nine wins in 1985), Bruce Crampton (seven wins in 1986, four wins in 1987), David Graham (three wins in 1997) and Graham Marsh (three wins in 1997).
Allan’s earlier wins came at The Galleri Classic at Mission Hills in March and the DICK’S Open last month in New York, his latest victory taking his prizemoney haul for the year past the million-dollar mark.
Given the quality of company he now keeps on the Champions Tour, Allan began the final round with few expectations that a third win was in the offing.
“With Stewart being in that position, he could win by just having a really good round and we just have to sort of play well,” he added.
“In some ways it frees you up because you’re not really thinking about winning, you’re just trying to have a good round.
“When I birdied the ninth I saw that he hadn’t jumped out ahead, so it was going to be a chance so just had to knuckle down and played pretty well on the back nine.
“A couple long putts were really good to help me make easy pars after not good approach shots and then rolled in a few birdies.”
As Allan added to his winning tally, David Micheluzzi made a welcome return to form on the DP World Tour.
With just one top-20 finish to his name since the Hero Dubai Desert Classic in January, Micheluzzi bounced back from two early bogeys to shoot 1-under 71 in the final round of the Nexo Championship in Scotland and move up eight spots into a tie for 10th.
Jason Day is the lone Aussie left in the FedEx Cup Playoffs after the FedEx St Jude Championship saw Min Woo Lee and Cam Davis both bow out.
Dropping from 37th to 44th, Day now has work to do to qualify for the Tour Championship reserved for the top 30 after the BMW Championship, Kiwi Ryan Fox needing a small jump from his current position of 32nd.
“There’s a lot of jackets in golf. It’s nice to have one.”@SAllan66 gets to add to his wardrobe thanks to the trophy @BoeingClassic ? pic.twitter.com/hpLc1iRlU1
— PGA TOUR Champions (@ChampionsTour) August 11, 2025
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PGA TOUR Champions
Boeing Classic
The Club at Snoqualmie Ridge, Snoqualmie, Washington
1 Steve Allan 68-68-65—201
T14 Brendan Jones 69-73-67—209
T14 Steven Alker (NZ) 67-68-74—209
T30 Michael Wright 71-73-69—213
T30 Stuart Appleby 69-73-71—213
T37 David Bransdon 72-74-68—214
T62 Richard Green 71-71-79—221
T65 Rod Pampling 70-76-76—222
T71 Mark Hensby 77-74-73—224
T73 John Senden 73-76-77—226
DQ Greg Chalmers 69-71
STORY SOURCE: TONY WEBECK | PGA Australia/GOLF AUSTRALIA