HANNAH Green isn’t much of a drinker – a girl more likely to celebrate a tournament victory with a Sprite rather than a Chardonnay. But she let her hair down after she’d wrapped up both of the big events on the WPGA calendar, claiming the WPGA Championship at Sanctuary Cove in late March.
And the celebration wasn’t just because of her immaculate golf. Her post-event dinner companion was her idol – superstar Karrie Webb, who has long been a supporter of the Western Australian champion.
Webb, whose name adorns the trophy that Green had just won, is known to fancy a red wine or two, and Green most certainly had earned a drink after a fabulous fortnight of golf that saw her win the Australian Open in Adelaide a week earlier.
“Maybe if the restaurant has something, I might have an alcoholic beverage,” Green conceded after her victory.
“Webby’s obviously one of the greatest golfers Australia’s ever produced,” she said. “I don’t think any of us will ever catch up with the amount of wins she’s had in her career, but she’s a true inspiration to us all.
“It’s amazing to see what she’s done with her scholarship. I’m not really sure I’ll be able to give back in the same way, but I’m hoping these two wins elevate women’s golf.”
Hannah Green backed up her win at the Australian Open with a victory at the WPGA Championship.
The celebrations were not likely to go on long into the night, however, as Green had to make an 8.30am flight to the United States the following morning.
It was clear to see her delight at claiming an event that had been won in 2022 by her best friend Su Oh, when the tournament was played at Royal Queensland.
It was Green’s third success of the season, her Australian victories following her win in the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore at the beginning of March.
“I’m on such a high right now and I know golf can go the other way,” she said. “So it’s going to be really hard for me when I don’t have a winning tournament.
“I have a week off to kind of recoup and get ready for when I go back to the States and just get myself back down to a level and not on such a high, so that I can continue to perform like I am.”
Hannah Green accepts the Karrie Webb trophy as winner of the WPGA Championship, from Karrie Webb herself.
Green, who sank a three-metre putt for birdie on the final hole at Sanctuary Cove to beat Germany’s Lexie Forsterling and South African Cassie Alexander by four strokes, is now setting her sights on winning another major.
“The major championships are definitely the events that I’m going to be trying to peak for,” she said. “Hopefully with how I’ve kind of laid out my schedule, I haven’t given myself too many tournaments before that to hopefully not tire myself out.
“But I think obviously I’m in a really good head space now. So I think that’s definitely going to help.”
Three Australians ended the week inside the top 10 of the WPGA Championship, Western Australian Maddison Hinson-Tolchard’s five -under 66 the round of the final day, lifting her into a share of ninth alongside LPGA Tour veteran Sarah Kemp (69) at seven-under.
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