World Top-10 in Sight for History-Making Hannah

Barooga, New South Wales, Australia: History-making Hannah Green has her sights set on breaking into the top-10 in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Ranking.

Australian Green created history at the weekend by winning the TPS Murray River. In so doing she became the first female to win a 72-hole mixed gender tournament on any of the world’s leading golf Tours.

A three-time Australian representative in the Asia-Pacific Women’s Amateur Team Championship for the Queen Sirikit Cup (2014-16), Green also played a role in the Asia-Pacific triumph in the inaugural Patsy Hankins Trophy in 2016, a Ryder Cup-style match event that pits leading females from the Asia-Pacific against their European rivals.

The TPS Murray River is part of the innovative Webex Players Series which was introduced at the start of 2021. As part of the PGA Tour of Australasia and WPGA Tour schedules, men and women compete in the same field – from adjusted tees - for the same prize purse and one trophy.

At Cobram Barooga Golf Club, Green, winner of the 2019 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, simply proved too good for her rivals. Thanks to an accomplished closing five-under 66, highlighted by a chip-in eagle at the par-five 10th, Green topped the leaderboard at 20-under.

Having started the final round in a four-way tie for the lead, Green adapted best in windy conditions to finish four strokes clear of joint runners-up Andrew Evans and Western Australia amateur Hayden Hopewell.

Of her second victory in as many weeks that saw her rise to 29th in the World Ranking, Green said:  “It feels amazing. I’m so grateful that I came. It actually wasn’t my plan to play [after winning the previous week’s Vic Open]. I was hoping to go back to Perth … but I think things happen for a reason.

“I wanted to win these two events as soon as I said I’d enter them. I didn’t think it was a ridiculous goal to try and get me name of these trophies. Now that that’s done, hopefully I can continue this momentum.

“I want to be in the top 10 in the world and I think I can achieve that. If I keep playing the golf that I am now, hopefully I can get there.”