Hall scores playoff win at Victorian PGA

Ashley Hall broke down in tears after chipping in for birdie on the first play-off hole to win the Victorian PGA Championship on Friday.

An emotional Hall iced the tournament with a perfectly judged lob wedge that trickled into the cup at Huntingdale to score the sudden-death victory over a rattled David McKenzie.

Heading into the final round in the lead, McKenzie was in control to hold a three-shot lead with two holes to play.

But the Victorian went into meltdown over the closing stretch.

He hit a perfect tee shot on the penultimate hole then overcooked his approach that went long and left into bushes up against the out-of-bounds fence.

As he could not take a penalty drop sideways without going closer to the hole, under the rules of golf he was forced to go back to the same spot on the fairway and play again but this time playing four.

He successfully re-clubbed, hit a beautiful five-iron to close range but missed the putt for bogey.

On the final hole of regulation, he again went over the back of the green, this time down a steep bank.

He used the putter to recover, however he misjudged the shot completely and didn't make it on to the green. He holed out finally from one metre to force the play-off.

Hall, with a final round of 70, and McKenzie (76) finished 72 holes tied on 11-under par, just one shot clear of six players, some who had already left the course after sensing they had no hope of being in the finish.

Tied for second at 10-under were Queenslanders Tim Hart (70) and Adam Blyth (70), Victorians Matthew Griffin (70) and Anthony Houston (70), Matt Millar (69) from the ACT and West Australian Stephen Leaney (71).

Rounding out the top-10 were Todd Sinnott and the leading international Brad Shilton from New Zealand.

Hall, now a dual winner of the tournament, hugged his wife Tara and young son Cooper beside the final green after securing a victory from nowhere.

"It means a lot," the 32-year-old explained.

"I haven't won for a while and you start to doubt yourself I guess. Dad was here too and a lot of the members who have supported me over the years."

Hall lost his playing rights on the US PGA Tour's Web.com secondary tour late last year and was forced to attend qualifying school last month to earn status as an Australian tournament professional.