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Commonwealth Golf Club Melbourne, Victoria 3-6 February 2011
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From the Minister for Sport and Recreation
Hugh Delahunty
On behalf of all Victorians, welcome to Melbourne’s Commonwealth Golf Club and the Handa Women’s Australian Open. This is undoubtedly Australia’s biggest women’s golf event and what better place to stage such a high profile tournament than on this stunning course set on our internationallyrenowned south-east Sandbelt corridor. Over four days golf fans from around the globe can look forward to some of the world’s top golfers as they battle it out for the prized Patricia Bridges Trophy. Off the back of the successful staging of the 2010 JBWere Australian Masters, the Open builds on Victoria’s reputation as a drawcard for the world’s best golfers and a premier golfing destination. It also adds to Melbourne’s impressive line up of upcoming major golfing events including golf’s blue ribbon event, the Presidents Cup to be staged at Royal Melbourne in 2011. There’s no doubt the eyes of the golfing world will be on Melbourne in the coming months. For our international and interstate guests, Melbourne has a lot to offer outside the golf course; there’s our great restaurants, bars, magnificent parks, museums, galleries and only a little further afield, wineries and the spa country. On behalf of all Victorians, I invite you to enjoy what promises to be the ultimate women’s golfing experience – the 2011 Handa Women’s Australian Open. Hugh Delahunty, MP Minister for Sport and Recreation
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From the Chairman of Golf Australia
Anne Lenagan
We are delighted to continue our relationship with our Naming Rights Sponsor, Dr Haruhisa Handa, through the International Sports Promotion Society and thank him for his enthusiasm and support. The 2011 championship will build on the outstanding success of 2010 which saw four of the world’s top twenty players in the field. In 2010 we celebrated World Number 5 Yani Tseng’s victory, lifting the Patricia Bridges Bowl for the first time in her career and we welcome Yani’s return to defend her title. We are delighted to welcome the finest players in the world back to Commonwealth Golf Club on Melbourne’s internationally respected Sandbelt for a second consecutive year. On behalf of Golf Australia, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Victorian Government for their ongoing support of the Handa Women’s Australian Open. We also wish to thank Coca-Cola Amatil, Drummond Golf, J-Golf, Sporte Leisure, Srixon, Taylors Wines and the Australian Sports Commission. Our sincere thanks and appreciation to the Commonwealth Golf Club and its committee, members and staff for the tremendous course and support they have provided to the championship and to Women’s Golf Victoria for organising such a dedicated team of volunteers. To all spectators, sponsors and media representatives – we hope you enjoy the 2011 Handa Women’s Australian Open and thank you for joining us at Commonwealth Golf Club. Anne Lenagan Chairman, Golf Australia
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From the President of Commonwealth Golf Club
Heather Scales
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On behalf of the members and staff of the Commonwealth Golf Club we are pleased to welcome players, spectators, sponsors, tournament officials and guests to the 2011 Handa Women’s Australian Open. Commonwealth was fortunate to host this time honoured event in 2010, and we are absolutely delighted to host for a second year in a row. One of Melbourne’s famed “Sandbelt” courses – Commonwealth is famous for its great layout, its wonderful green complexes, and the strategic values of individual golf holes. The course is in great condition thanks to the work of our Course Manager Mark Prosser and his staff and will present a fitting challenge to the top class field which will tee off in the event. We are pleased to be able to support women’s golf by holding this tournament and we hope that throughout this week players and spectators enjoy both the golf and our hospitality. Heather Scales President, Commonwealth Golf Club
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Karrie Webb What more could possibly be said about Karrie Webb? She is Australia’s greatest female golfer and arguably our best ever, male or female. Certainly one of the other contenders, five-time British Open winner Peter Thomson, thinks so. “I have no hesitation in saying Karrie is the greatest golfer we have produced,” he told GolferPacific newspaper in 2010. “I doubt anyone will be able to beat Karrie’s achievements for a long time.” These achievements are remarkable indeed. At the end of the 2010 season she held 50 professional wins worldwide – 36 LPGA, 11 ALPG, two LPGA of Japan and one U.S. Futures. But it is not just the number as the significance of her titles and, in many cases, the manner in which they were won that
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commands such respect. Webb holds seven majors – the 1999 Du Maurier Classic, 2000 Kraft Nabisco and U.S. Open, 2001 McDonalds LPGA Championship and U.S. Open, 2002 Weetabix British Open and 2006 Kraft Nabisco. She also won the Weetabix British Open twice before it became a major. She boasts a Career Grand Slam and is the youngest player in LPGA history to record a Super Career Grand Slam (winning all five majors available in her playing career). She also has seven Australian Ladies Masters and four Continued on page 8
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Australian Opens to her name. Her accomplishments include 1995 European and 1996 LPGA Rookie of the Year, two LPGA Player of the Year awards, three Vare Trophies, induction into the LPGA Hall of Fame in 2005, life membership of the ALPG in 2008 and in January 2010 was awarded an Order of Australia. Some of her greatest wins have come when her back is to the wall or when something special is needed. No better example than the 2006 Kraft Nabisco when she holed a pitching wedge from the fairway to make a playoff with Lorena Ochoa, which she subsequently won. It all began back in Ayr, North Queensland, when a young Webb dreamed of playing golf for a living and famously wrote to a golf magazine
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requesting information on prizemoney. Now Webb is on record saying she does not want to be Australia’s highest ranked player when she eventually retires. At 36 years of age, she still is – which says less about her countrywomen than her own continuing presence. To give back to the game she loves, Webb has lent her name to the Karrie Webb Series and endows the Karrie Webb Scholarship to support aspiring Australian female golfers. In 2009 she set up Karrie’s FANtasic Freebies, offering free admission tickets to seven LPGA events plus the U.S. Open to help the tour through a difficult time and fans to see their heroes. She actively supports the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, which is dedicated to spinal cord injury, and campaigns which fight cancer. Karrie Webb not only has the record of a champion, she has a champion’s attributes. Think Webb and think talent, courage, tenacity, modesty and grace under pressure. She is pure class.
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Yani Tseng 2010 Handa Women’s Australian Open champion, Yani Tseng has enjoyed remarkable success in a short time. Turning professional in 2007 aged 18, after a stellar amateur career, Tseng qualified for the 2008 LPGA Tour where she made an immediate impact. In that year her first LPGA tournament win was a major, the McDonalds LPGA Championship which she won in a four-hole sudden death playoff. She also
won the Rookie of the Year Award, had ten top-ten finishes, was runner-up in the Women’s British Open – another major – and led the Tour with 388 birdies, earning her the nickname “The Birdie Machine”. She again led the Tour with 381 birdies in 2009 and became the fastest player in LPGA history to amass career earnings of US$2million. Along the way she collected the LPGA Corning Classic, carding her career best round – 62 – in the third round. She also picked up a mentor in Annika Sorenstam, buying the former champion’s house as well. “I feel like there’s a lot of magic in this one”, she said. But Tseng was to provide her own magic in 2010, winning two more majors in the Kraft Nabisco Championship and the RICOH Women’s British Open, making her, at 21, the youngest golfer – male or female – to win three majors. Perhaps she should now be known as “The Major Machine”. She also traded in Continued on page 12
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birdies for eagles, tying for third on Tour with eight, was ranked five on the Rolex world rankings and took out the coveted 2010 Rolex Player of the Year award. She displays nerves of steel with a 1-1 playoff record and four of her five LPGA wins coming from behind, a trait she showed at Commonwealth last year when she pegged back Karrie Webb from a seven-shot deficit at one point on the final day, carding seven birdies in the last 12 holes. Naturally athletic, Tseng excelled in a number of sports as a youngster and makes time to return to Taiwan to promote golf in her home country. In 2008, after her McDonalds win, she donated US$50,000 of her prize to earthquake victims in China. 12 • www.WomensAustralianOpen.com.au
Likable and engaging, Tseng claims she learned English quickly because “she likes to talk a lot”. It is to be hoped that she also learns to swim well, too. Just as she was poised to make the traditional leap into Poppie’s Pond after her victory at the Kraft Nabisco, Tseng turned to her caddie and said, “Wait – I don’t know to swim!” With the speed with which she is amassing majors, she likely has many more leaps ahead of her. At Commonwealth last year, Tseng managed herself brilliantly around a challenging course which allowed just eight players to finish under par at week’s end. When we get to the business end of the 2011 Handa Women’s Australian Open Championship, we will know two things: Tseng likes to charge in the final round and she knows how to win the big ones.
Jiyai Shin Will she return? South Korean Jiyai Shin entered 2011 as world number one. At just 22 years old, she already boasts an enviable career – eight LPGA and 26 international victories. In her 2006 rookie season on the Korean KLPGA Tour, she won both Rookie and Player of the Year titles, a feat she almost – remarkably – later emulated on the LPGA Tour. 2007 was her breakout year. In 18 starts on the KLPGA, she recorded nine victories, broke the KLPGA career money record, recorded three top-six finishes on the LPGA and won the Thailand Open. She also finished sixth in the Australian Open and runner-up at the ANZ Ladies Masters. Shin continued her winning ways in 2008, bagging her first major, the RICOH Women’s British Open, as well as becoming the first player in KLPGA history to complete a season Grand
Slam. Three victories on the LPGA Tour that year as a nonmember earned her playing rights for 2009, when she claimed another three significant events. In the LPGA majors of 2010 she had three top-five finishes and a tie for 14th at the fourth. Victory in September at the Metlife-Korea Economics KLPGA Championship qualified her for the KLPGA Hall of Fame. And she won the Evian Masters just six weeks after an emergency appendectomy. In 2008 at the Australian Open, she and Karrie Webb went shot for shot over two holes of sudden death playoff before Webb prevailed. No doubt victory at the 2011 Handa Women’s Australian Open would taste extra sweet for Shin. At time of printing this player was not confirmed.
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Laura Davies With a staggering total of 78 wins worldwide – 20 LPGA, 44 LET and another 14 internationally, Laura Davies has had a stellar career by any reckoning. She owns four majors, seven LET Orders of Merit and multiple awards and accolades including MBE, CBE, life membership of the LET and honorary membership of the ALPG. Another major or two regular Tour wins would qualify her for the LPGA Hall of Fame. In 2010 she announced she has no plans to retire. And why would she? Last year she still managed five significant victories around the globe including the New Zealand, German, Spanish and
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Indian Opens, and length – her biggest asset through the years – stays with her, ranked fifth on LPGA statistics. At 47, she remains competitive and hungry for success. There is also the tempting matter of golf being admitted to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Davies is a tournament drawcard wherever she goes and the darling of the golfing public. Her swashbuckling style, aversion to practice or coaching, her love of all sports, fast cars and the punt, as well as her down-to-earth manner and generous support of charity, have endeared her to one and all, such that just “Laura” announces her. And she is one of the most popular players among her peers. Davies won the 2004 Women’s Australian Open at Concord, then won again in 2009 at Metropolitan in dramatic circumstances. She defended her title valiantly but finished runner-up to Yani Tseng in 2010 at Commonwealth.
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Melissa Reid By her own reckoning, England’s Melissa Reid had a pretty consistent year in 2010. And no-one would argue. In just her third full season, she posted 11 topten finishes, including her first LET win at the Turkish Airlines Ladies Open and finished third on the Henderson money list. Since her professional debut, Reid has performed consistently with seven top-tens in 2008 and eight from 14
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starts in 2009. In 2008 she finished 12th on the money list and was named Ryder Cup Wales Rookie of the Year, the trophy presented to her by her childhood hero Annika Sorenstam. The following year she finished seventh on the money list while in 2010 she was engaged in a tight battle for much of the season with Laura Davies and eventual winner Lee-Anne Pace for the number one spot. In October, she was also in a tight battle with a snake while playing at the Sanya Ladies Open in China. After receiving treatment on course for snakebite, she showed true grit to birdie the hole, ironically pitching her third shot to six feet – the length of the snake. Reid boasts a proud record at the Women’s Australian Open, finishing third in both 2008 and 2009 and a creditable 16th in 2010. Ranked second in pars and birdies on the LET, she has the ideal game for sandbelt golf. Reid, who started playing golf aged 11 when she could no longer play football with the boys, is undoubtedly a star on the rise.
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Katherine Hull Katherine Hull is a genuine contender on any golf stage. She left Australia in 2000 to attend Pepperdine University where, in 2003, she was named NCAA Player of the Year and received the prestigious Dinah Shore Award. After turning professional in 2003, Hull won twice on the Futures Tour, including the first tournament she played. She joined forces with Steve McRae in early 2007, started working hard and hasn’t looked back. It all came together in 2008 at the CN Canadian
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Women’s Open when she ran down Yani Tseng to claim her first LPGA victory. With confidence brimming, she then claimed the ANZ Ladies Masters in early 2009 by an emphatic five shots over a quality field including Tseng, Karrie Webb and Jiyai Shin. 2010 was another good year with a return to the winner’s circle at the Navistar LPGA Classic, coming from behind, and an excellent one shot second behind Tseng at the RICOH British Open. Ranked world number 20 by the end of 2010 and with nine professional victories under her belt, there is no doubt that Hull has the game to match it with the best. And she saves some of her best form for home soil, having claimed five ALPG titles. Last year she ran second to Webb at the ANZ Masters and a solid fourth to Tseng in the Handa Women’s Australian Open at Commonwealth. Hull devotes a lot of time to worthy causes, in particular to World Vision projects and Golf Fore Africa.
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Christina Kim
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After turning pro in 2002, Christina Kim posted 12 top-tens, including one win, to finish second on the Futures Tour and qualify for the LPGA Tour. She won the 2004 Longs Drugs Challenge and the 2005 Mitchell Company Tournament of Champions and is a regular top ten finisher. In 2008 she recorded ten toptens including a second at the Michelob ULTRA Open. Her record in majors is sound, finishing third in the 2009 RICOH British Open and top ten in both the U.S. Open and RICOH British Open of 2010. Known for her flamboyant attire and forthright, gregarious personality, Kim is a true character of the game and a popular choice for charity event support as well as a tournament drawcard.
Lee-Anne Pace played in the U.S. with limited success early in her career before moving to the Ladies European Tour in 2007 where things turned around. But it was in 2010 that she found her game when she reeled off five wins for the season. In a three week blitz in August, she won the S4C Wales Championship, came runner-up at the Scottish Open and won in Finland at the Finnair Masters. In October she followed up with victories in consecutive weeks at the Sanya Ladies Open and the Suzhou Taihu Ladies Open, both in China. Pace was the first South African to head the Henderson money list and was the number one player on tour, an outstanding performance from a talented player.
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Kristie Smith
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Kristie Smith came to notice in 2008 when she tied for fifth and was leading amateur in the Women’s Australian Open. She also claimed the 2008 women’s Australian Amateur Championship, 25 years after her father won the men’s title, and the Karrie Webb Series named after her idol and mentor. Smith divides her time between the LET and U.S. Duramed Futures Tour with some solid performances on both. In 2010 she won her first professional title in Canberra and had two top-tens in Europe. In the U.S., she posted four top-tens from four starts, including her maiden victory there when she holed a 20-foot eagle putt on the last hole to win the Daytona Beach Invitational by a shot.
After an excellent amateur career, including runner-up in the British Amateur and semi-finalist in the U.S. Amateur, Lindsey Wright turned professional in 2003 and won three events on the Futures Tour. She advanced to the LPGA Tour full-time in 2005, making herself known with a fourth at the 2007 McDonalds LPGA Championship. In 2009, she again showed her liking for the majors with a runner-up finish at the McDonalds LPGA and a fourth at the Kraft Nabisco. Throw in two other top-tens, including a final round 63 at the Navistar Classic, a climb in world ranking to 18 and it was a great year. With two top tens in her last two appearances in the Australian Open, she is one to watch.
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Handa Women’s Australian Open
Honour Roll Year
Winner
2010
Yani Tseng
Country
TPE
Score Venue
283
Commonwealth GC, Vic
2009
Laura Davies
ENG
285
Metropolitan GC, Vic
2008
Karrie Webb
AUS
284
Kingston Heath GC, Vic
2007
Karrie Webb
AUS
278
Royal Sydney GC, NSW
2005/06 Not played 2004
Laura Davies
ENG
283
Concord GC, NSW
2003
Mhairi McKay
SCO
277
Terrey Hills GC, NSW
2002
Karrie Webb
AUS
278
Yarra Yarra GC, Vic
2001
Sophie Gustafson
SWE
276
Yarra Yarra GC, Vic
2000
Karrie Webb
AUS
270
Yarra Yarra GC, Vic
1999
Not played
1998
Marnie McGuire
NZL
280
Yarra Yarra GC, Vic
1997
Jane Crafter
AUS
279
Yarra Yarra GC, Vic
1996
Catriona Matthew
SCO
283
Yarra Yarra GC, Vic
1995
Liselotte Neumann
SWE
283
Yarra Yarra GC, Vic
1994
Annika Sorenstam
SWE
286
Royal Adelaide GC, SA
1979/83 Not played 1978
Debbie Austin
USA
213
Manly GC, NSW
1977
Jan Stephenson
AUS
145*
Manly GC, NSW
1976
Donna Caponi Young
USA
206
Victoria GC, Vic
1975
JoAnne Carner
USA
228
The Australian GC, NSW
1974
Chako Higuchi
JPN
219
Victoria GC, Vic
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Course Map 5
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GOLF CLUB
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A new era unveiled at 2010 Open One of the faces of golf’s future, Yani Tseng from Taiwan, broke the stranglehold Laura Davies and Karrie Webb had on our national title when she fired a brilliant seven-under 66 to take out the 2010 Handa Women’s Australian Open at Commonwealth Golf Club. To do it, though, she still had to get past those two leviathans, Davies putting up a spirited defence of her 2009 title to finish runner-up and Webb, gallant as always, finishing third after looking the winner earlier in the day. Between them, Webb and Davies hold six Women’s Australian Open titles, including five of the last seven. Last year’s Open could be summed up in one word – momentum. Each day boasted a new leader, Davies first then Italian Giulia Sergas with Webb taking a one shot lead after 54 holes. Tseng was four behind Webb and slipped seven behind when the Australian opened her final round with three birdies in the first five holes. It looked like her day and Tseng certainly thought so.
But momentum is everything in any sporting contest. Webb, fighting her putter and battling fatigue after four mentally sapping weeks on the trot, slid backwards with four bogeys in six holes. Tseng, meanwhile, found her range and unleashed a patch of pure brilliance, capturing seven birdies for the day, all of them in the last 12 holes. Once she boarded the birdie train it was stopping all stations, enough to deliver her first Handa Women’s Australian Open championship.
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Come Sunday afternoon at the business end of the 2011 Handa Women’s Australian Open, there will be four critical holes where the leaders will have to carefully consider their strategies. 2011 Handa Women’s Australian Open • 27
HOLE 15 METRES 147 A 147m Par 3, PAR 3 that can play significantly differently each day, depending on the wind. Although the green complex is quite large, an errant or overly aggressive shot will generally find trouble. Heavily bunkered at the front and sides and with a large swale at the back, missing this green will likely result in a bogey.
HOLE 16 METRES 340 PAR 4
The classic “risk v reward” Par 4 measuring 340m. A player must decide on the tee how much of the corner to cut. Taking the aggressive line brings the water into play, however if done successfully, the player will only have a pitch to the green. Should a conservative route 28 • www.WomensAustralianOpen.com.au
be taken from the tee, it will leave the player with a mid to long iron to a very difficult green, guarded by a large bunker on the front right, with a putting surface which slopes heavily from right to left. The 16th is certainly an opportunity to push for a birdie, but a visit to the water could end a player’s title aspirations.
HOLE 17 METRES 307 PAR 4
One of Melbourne’s classic short Par 4s measuring 307m. A player must choose on the tee whether to take driver and get as close to the green as possible or lay up short of the trouble, and leave a full shot in to the green. Should a player take a driver, the landing area is extremely narrow with thick te-tree to the left. The green itself undulates heavily from the back left to the front right, hence an accurate second shot is critical.
HOLE 18 METRES 360 PAR 4
The ultimate Par 4 finishing hole for a major championship, measuring 360m with a generous landing area for the tee shot. However players will face a mid to long iron
approach to the green. The green itself is heavily bunkered, both to the left and right hence an accurate approach is critical. A score of four is always well earned on this challenging final hole.
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Golf gets a helping Handa Golf has a friend in Dr Haruhisa Handa. The Japanese businessman and philanthropist supports an impressive portfolio of events globally through his not-for-profit foundation ISPS (International Sports Promotion Society). Dr Handa’s involvement in golf sponsorship began in 1988 after meeting W.A. blind golfer Ron Anderson. He subsequently funded the Australian national blind championship for ten years before setting up the International Blind Golf Association. From there his interest in golf broadened and he now sponsors events throughout the world. In Australia this includes the Handa Women’s Australian Open, the Handa Australian Senior Open, the Handa Australia Cup and the Handa Junior Masters. Dr Handa does not confine his generosity to golf. A true philanthropist, he is heavily involved in helping some of the poorest countries in the world and supporting the arts in more developed countries. A modern day “universal man”, he is
an accomplished composer, calligrapher, poet, painter, opera singer and actor of traditional Japanese Noh theatre. He speaks several different languages, has written over 100 books, hosts a weekly radio program and is in demand as a motivational speaker. He has achieved a number of academic qualifications in his own right as well as receiving honorary doctorates and titles from grateful institutions and countries. As a result of his patronage, he has been made Honorary Chairman of the LPGA Legends Tour, an advisor to the European Tour, Patron of Golf Australia and is a lifetime honorary member of the PGA of Australia. 2011 Handa Women’s Australian Open • 31
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