Not so noticed this weekend was the victory of Australian amateur Jake Higginbottom at the Australasian Tour’s BMW New Zealand Open.  The 19-year-old closed with a fine 67 to edge Jason Norris and England’s Peter Wilson by one, and in the process joined 18-year-old Oliver Goss as the second amateur to claim an Australasian title within the last month.  When considering the disproportionally high number of world class players produced Down Under, one his hesitant to take shots at any aspect of Australian golf.  Still, these two amateur victories cannot help but speak to the lean fields which inhabit most Australasian events outside of Australia’s Big Three (the Open, the PGA and the Masters).  But admirably, the tour soldiers on…