NextGEN Amateur Tour Castle Hill winner Darcy Mackay and tournament director Ewan Porter.

DARCY Mackay (Twin Creeks / The Australian GC) has captured the NextGEN Amateur Tour event at Castle Hill and Oatlands golf courses, following a playoff with Kade Webber (Stonecutters Ridge / Concord GC).

Darcy shot rounds of 3-under 69 and 3-under 33 on a fog-interrupted Day One (27 holes) to hold the overnight lead, then held his nerve on Day 2 with a closing 2-under 68, as Kade (71/33/66) staged a late rally to finish tied at the top of the leaderboard at the end of 45 holes.

Darcy would go on to win the playoff to claim the winner’s cheque, ahead of Kade in 2nd, Ti Fox (Richmond / Concord GC) 6th and Blake Hodges (Erskine Park / New South Wales GC) 14th.

Darcy and Kade also finished 1st and 2nd in 18-25 Male division, whilst Ti was the winner in U18 Male.

Tamworth and Longyard golf clubs hosted the 2025 Srixon NSW Mid-Amateur golf tournament over the 31st May – 2nd June.

There were 17 entries from western Sydney clubs, with 2 players withdrawing during the first two rounds and a further 8 players missing the cut-off score of 16-over-par.

Dillyn Burazin (Dunheved GC) was the best of the western Sydney contingent, finishing his 3 rounds in 7th place at 3-under-par 209, just 6 shots in arrears of the winner Luke Humphries (Goulburn GC) on 203.

Kristopher Clelland (Fox Hills GC) shot 5-over-par 217 to finish in a tie for 20th, Michael Elliot (Penrith GC) shot 8-over-par 220 to finish tied 28th, Christopher Sutanto (Fox Hills GC) and Martin Hooper (Fox Hills GC) both 14-over par scores of 226 to finish tied 47th, Mark Stone (Lynwood CC) and David Bishop (Glenmore Heritage Valley GC) both 19-over-par 231 in a tie for 67th.