Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen what's in the bag 2025

Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen saved his best until last as he fought off the challenge of a resurgent Cameron Smith to claim his maiden DP World Tour title by winning the Australian Open.

Neergaard-Petersen began the day with a two-shot lead but was tied with home favourite Smith as the pair made their way down the 18th.

After missing the green, the Dane faced an uphill battle to save par but he rose to the challenge, getting up and down courtesy of a 10-foot putt to pile the pressure on Smith's par putt. And when Smith missed, Neergaard-Petersen celebrated a one-shot victory.

The 26-year-old finished the week on 15 under par after signing for a closing 70 which contained four birdies and three bogeys. Smith was second on 14 under, one ahead of South Korea's Si Woo Kim in third.

Neergaard-Petersen said: "I'm really at a loss for words. It's been a battle all day. From the outside, sometimes you can look calm but there was a storm inside all day today.

"But I managed to just keep battling and then to get it up and down from there to make that putt on the last - I don't really know what to say, to be honest.

"It's one of those things I feel like I've done the other couple of days - I've been able to finish well. So I always had that belief that if I just keep trying to hit my spots, eventually the putts were going to drop and I was going to be able to get some of those shots back."

The victory secures his place at The Masters. He said: "It means the world. The Masters is the event I've grown up watching so many times, just dreaming of playing it.

"Getting to do that is awesome. It's gone by so fast. I don't feel like it's been two and a half years since I've been out of college. I haven't even been a pro for that long.

"To get the win here at my final event of the year was the only thing missing from a perfect year. I'm so happy."

Neergaard-Petersen won three times on the HotelPlanner Tour in 2024 on the way to topping the Road to Mallorca Rankings. But despite enjoying a remarkable 2025 season on the DP World Tour to earn dual membership with the PGA Tour, he was unable to win.

He entered the final round with a two-shot advantage but saw his lead evaporate in the early stages as he bogeyed the fourth.

Neergaard-Petersen regained the outright lead with a tap-in birdie at the sixth but surrendered two more bogeys on the ninth and tenth to sit two strokes behind Smith at the start of the back nine.

A long-range birdie at the tough 12th led to a two-shot swing as Neergaard-Petersen grabbed a share of the lead once more before birdieing the 13th from close range to hit the front on his own.

After his tee-shot at the 14th landed under the trees on the right side, Neergaard-Petersen did well to save par but was caught at the top as Smith made birdie on the same hole.

With both Neergaard-Petersen and Smith finding birdies at the 17th, there was nothing to separate the pair with one hole remaining. But Neergaard-Petersen produced a big finish when it mattered to win and earn his spot at next year's Masters.

Who is Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen?

Neergaard-Petersen was born in Niva, Denmark on July 3, 1999.

He had a successful amateur career and won the 2017 Danish Junior Championship, and the German International Amateur Championship back-to-back in 2018 and 2019. He was runner-up at the 2018 European Nations Cup. He lost the final of the 2020 Western Amateur to Pierceson Coody and was runner-up at the 2022 European Amateur.  

Hee won the 2017 European Bots Team Championship at La Manga and finished third at the 2022 European Amateur Team Championship at Royal St George’s.

Neergaard-Petersen played college golf at Oklahoma State University from 2018-2023 where he recorded two wins and was named All-American. He helped the International team win the 2022 Arnold Palmer Cup.  

He turned professional after graduating in 2023, and joined the Challenge Tour. He also made a handful of DP World Tour starts where in his debut, he held the lead at the BMW International Open in Munich before finishing seventh.

In the space of a few weeks, in 2024, he won the Kolkata Challenge and the UAE Challenge and was runner-up at the Challenge de Espana. He secured his third win of 2024 at the Big Green Egg Harman Challenge, earning him a promotion to the DP World Tour. With a tied-second finish at the Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final in November, Neergaard-Petersen claimed the season-long rankings title.

On the 2025 DP World Tour, he was second at the Qatar Masters and at the Puerto Rico Open before securing his promotion to the 2026 PGA Tour as he birdied three of his last four holes in the final round of the DP World Tour Championship, where he tied for third behind Matt Fitzpatrick and Rory McIlroy.

This was his 42nd start on the DP World Tour and his first victory. He has made 31 cuts, with one second, one third and eighth other top 10s.

He averages 293.42 yards from the tee, finds 82.95% of fairways and hits 75.93% of greens in regulation. He averages 29.83 putts per round, gets up and down from the sand 40% of the time and has a stroke average of 69.33.

What's in Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen's golf bag?

Driver: PING G440 LST (9 Degrees)

3-Wood: PING G440 Max (15 Degrees)

5-Wood: PING G440 Max (19 Degrees)

Irons: PING i240 (4-9)

Wedges: PING i240 (W), PING S259 (50, 54 & 58 Degrees)

Putter: PING PLD Oslo Proto

Ball: Titleist, Pro V1 (23)