IT GOES TO SHOW I DIDN’T FLUKE IT THE FIRST TIME.
– DIMI PAPADATOS.
“He just looks like a European Tour player and carries himself like one.” It was a throwaway line from colleague Adrian Logue at last year’s Vic Open about Dimi Papadatos that, despite failing to materialise in 2022, remains exceptionally true as the PGA Tour of Australasia prepares to head back to 13th Beach this month.
Papadatos would go on to win that week and claim the Vic Open trophy for a second time and push himself up the circuit’s Order of Merit where three DP World Tour cards were on offer at season’s end.
Yet it was another case of so close but so far for the son of a former professional wrestler from the New South Wales