Wodonga product Zach Murray drained a long putt to claim the sport's equivalent of the Big Bash on Sunday.
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Murray beat Ben Eccles, Max McArdle and Brett Rankin in a four-way playoff at Curlewis Golf Club on the Bellarine Peninsula in the Blitz Golf series.
"I had a pretty similar 30-foot putt (9.14m) through the day on 18, it was a pretty big break, three or four foot (0.91-1.22m) and I just thought I've got to give it a little more break than I did before," he said.
"When you know you've hit a good putt it looks good the whole way and it just broke away and hit right in the centre."
Murray won last year's second instalment of Blitz Golf, with further events at Links Hope Island in Queensland on Friday and Glenelg in South Australia two days later.
However, the 22-year-old is unable to play those tournaments after pocketing just under $12,000 for his Victoria win.
"I've always liked match play and there's a little bit of match play concept to it, you always feel like you've got to be pushing and I think, for me, that simplifies it a little bit," he said.
Blitz Golf is the brainchild of Adelaide property developer Simon Zybek.
It starts with 40 men and women, 20 apiece on the front and back nine holes, before the field is whittled down to a final hole.
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Zybek came up with the idea after watching three players at the Australian Open who missed the cut.
"I thought there's got to be a result on the day and I didn't even get to see the best players, so I thought I'd come up with a single day format that's like a Big Bash of golf, so how do you do four days of golf into one?" he said.
He's also planning a Border Blitz Golf for amateurs.
