Munglinup Golf Club’s Tim Compagnoni collects the Brolga Division plate for the Queensland Outback Masters best overall male score of 118 points. Photo: brolga-male-winner-Tim (Outback Queensland Masters).
Munglinup Golf Club’s Tim Compagnoni travelled 3,500 kilometres to compete in the 2025 Queensland Outback Masters and he’s coming home a winner.
“The best part of it was traveling through Western Queensland catching up with family seeing the historic places and playing golf, so it all came together nicely,” Compagnoni said.
“Our family originally were from Queensland and I was born there; I’ve still got a lot of relations over there and got to visit the properties I used to live at when I was a three year old — it was pretty special for me.
“My father was overseer on some of those bigger pastoral companies before we left (for Munglinup) in 1957.
“I have done that every year for the past two years and the golf was a bit of a bonus meeting terrific people.
“I caught up with friends I met last year, made new friends, visited family, got to play golf and on the way home I am going by Lake Eyre to take a few photos.”
The one-of-a-kind tournament took place over six consecutive weekends, from June 21 to July 27, across six different outback Queensland towns.
The 1,900km schedule included stops in Mitchell, Augathella, Blackall, Alpha, Richmond, and the nine-hole Karumba course.
“Karumba was my favourite course of the six,” he said.
Right up in the gulf, I played my best golf there, they had the best grassed fairways as most of the others were fairly dry.
Featuring courses with sand greens, it was Compagnoni who was the most consistent overall male player in the Brolga division with 118 points.
“Coming from Munglinup, all the courses were sand greens so that wasn’t an issue for me,” he said.
The last round was highlighted by the Karumba $1 million hole-in-one challenge, which was not claimed, however Brenda Fugar from Cobar in NSW and Chris Marshall of Orbost in Victoria, each walked away $5000 richer, taking out nearest-to-pin honours.
Compagnoni commented that he missed the green in the $1 million hole-in-one challenge ‘by quite a bit’, even though he had made the green both times in an earlier 18-hole round.
