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FRANK PHILLIPS OAM

Frank Phillips, a two-time Australian Open Champion and one of this country’s greatest-ever PGA professionals recently passed away. He was 90.

He died at a nursing home in Bowral where he has spent the past few years, not far from where he was born and raised at Moss Vale in the NSW southern highlands.

He is survived by his three children Melissa, Frank Junior and Rodney, and a loving cluster of grandchildren and great grandchildren. His beloved

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