Unheralded American Ryggs Johnston has won his first professional title by claiming the Australian Open by three stokes, while South Korea’s Jiyai Shin claimed her second Women’s Australian Open which was played concurrently at two courses on the famed Melbourne sand belt.

Ryggs Johnston, who recently graduated from Arizona State, earned the biggest win of his young career in Australia.

Ryggs Johnston, a 24-year-old professional golfer and 2019 graduate of Libby High School, won the 107th Australian Open golf tournament last weekend with a score of 269. That finish of 18 strokes under par gave him a three-stroke margin of victory to edge out Australian golfer Curtis Luck.

Unheralded American Ryggs Johnston won his first professional title Sunday by closing with a 4-under 68 at Kingston Heath for a 3-shot victory.

Ryggs Johnston, a 24-year-old from Montana making his second DP World Tour start, was just as shocked as anyone that he won the ISPS Handa Australian Open.

American rookie Ryggs Johnston and former world number one Shin Ji-yai win the men's and women's Australian Open titles.

Ryggs Johnston, in just his second start on the DP World Tour, won by three shots to claim the 2024 ISPS Handa Australian Open. He also punched his ticket to the 2025 Open Championship. Johnston tied for 42nd in his DPWT debut last week,

Lucas Herbert surrendered his outright lead of the Australian Open and will go into the final round tied with American Ryggs Johnston while South Korea’s Jiyai Shin took the outright lead in the Women’s Australian.

Unheralded American Ryggs Johnston can barely believe the company he's now in after crashing the party with a stunning and most improbable Australian Open triumph in Melbourne.