What a moving win it was\u00a0for the 29 year-old Hannah Green in the HSBC Women\u2019s Open Championship on The Tanjong course at Sentosa as she won by a shot from America\u2019s Auston Kim. Hannah won the event in 2024, only this time it was rather more special as she had her husband, Jarryd Felton, on the bag.\u00a0 She suggested that\u00a0 it was up there with their \u201823 wedding day \u2014 a wedding day which followed 11 years of dating.
Friends poured champagne over the pair and there was one more beaming, bearded hug from her Australian PGA tour-playing husband who has probably caddied for his wife on no more than three occasions.
He recognised that she had been nervous at the start but was confident that she had everything it takes to deal with the situation: \u201cShe\u2019s cool, she\u2019s calm and she\u2019s collected. It was wonderful to watch her going about her craft.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0
To him and many another, her holes of the day came at the par-five 8th, where a stunner of a five wood paved the way for an eagle, and the 15th. When all three of Hannah, Minjee Lee and Angel Yin missed the green at this par three, Hannah outshone the others by holing out from the green\u2019s apron. At that point, she went back to four clear.
It was at the fourteenth that she had had her first bogey when she followed Yin into the trees and failed to get up and down from off the green after her ball darted in and out of the hole.\u00a0
There was an identical in-and-out putt at the 17th which left her only two shots ahead of Auston Kim and, though she would\u00a0 have loved to sign off with a birdie, she three-putted to finish just one ahead of an American whose golf had shown nothing but promise.
There was a generous winner\u2019s speech from Jeeno Thitikull at the previous week\u2019s Honda, and there was another from Hannah. She may have been irritated by her putting at the last, but still she spoke of how the course was \u201cin such good shape that you could have putted on the tee-boxes.\u201d
She is hoping this season will be back to how it was in \u201924 when she finished fifth in the world rankings before falling to 20th in \u201925. \u201cI might have to change some of my goals,\u201d she said of her \u201926 schedule. Jarryd had mentioned the Australian Open and the chances are that they will be a double-act that week.
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The long-hitting Auston Kim spilled a mixed bag of thoughts after her second place. \u201cI hit some bad shots and I didn\u2019t have my A game but I was still able to pull off a result like this and play some solid golf. Overall, I\u2019m proud of myself\u2026I\u2019ve still got a lot to learn, whether it\u2019s golf related or human related. I feel like every day is an opportunity to learn how to become a better golf and a better human.\u201d\u00a0
How proud Karrie Webb, the winner here in 2011, would have been of Hannah, who already has one major under her belt, and Minjee Lee, who has three, to whom she had handed out Karrie Webb scholarships in their amateur days.\u00a0 The scholarships were each worth $15,000 and it was when she watched Hannah playing in the second round of the stroke-play qualifier for the 2015 US Amateur Championship at the Portland G C that she followed her for a first time. Her comments were as follows: \u201cShe\u2019s very technically sound\u2026.She didn\u2019t miss a green when I watched.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And she barely missed a green at Sentosa in a performance to suggest that more majors await.\u00a0
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