Hannah Inexperienced has been recognised for her stellar three-win season on the LPGA Tour by being topped the Greg Norman Medallist for the second time.
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Inexperienced was introduced as this yr’s winner of Australian golf’s high honour on the PGA Awards Gala Dinner forward of the Australian PGA Championship in Brisbane on Tuesday night.
The 27-year-old has loved the most effective season of her profession as she climbed to a career-high world rating of quantity 5 courtesy of triumphs at HSBC Girls’s World Championship in Thailand, the JM Eagle LA Championship and the BMW Women Championship in Korea.
Inexperienced can add additional to her tally on the LPGA’s season finale, the CME Group Tour Championship in Florida this week, earlier than returning dwelling to participate within the Australian Open in Melbourne subsequent week.
The West Australian was unable to attend the ceremony because of this however addressed the room with an acceptance speech through video.
“It has undoubtedly been the most effective years of my profession and to cap it with a second Greg Norman Medal makes it all of the extra particular,” Inexperienced stated.
“Any yr during which you’ve a win is an efficient yr so to have three within the one season may be very satisfying – and I’d love to complete off with one other one on the ISPS HANDA Australian Open subsequent week.
“I wish to thank everybody in my crew, my husband Jarryd, my household and associates for his or her help this yr.
“I really feel like I’ve taken a serious step ahead in 2024 and hope that I can end off the yr properly and take that into 2025 and past.”
Inexperienced first received the medal named for the two-time British Open champion and former world primary Norman in 2019 when she grew to become a serious champion on the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship.
She is the primary Australian since seven-time main winner Karrie Webb in 2006 to notch up three victories on girls’s golf’s premier tour in a season.
She additionally broke the stranglehold Minjee Lee and Cameron Smith have had on the award with the pair splitting it twice every within the final 4 years.
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Inexperienced’s medal was accepted by her coach Ritchie Smith – who obtained an accolade of his personal by successful PGA Nationwide Coach of the Yr – Excessive Efficiency.
Smith his constructed a formidable secure of expertise in Perth with the Lee siblings – Minjee and Min Woo – additionally pupils of his which implies he coached three-quarters of Australian Olympic golf crew from the Paris Video games earlier this yr.
Extremely gifted New Zealander Kuzuma Kobori received PGA Tour of Australasia Participant of the Yr for his Order of Advantage successful season which included three victories and handed him a DP World Tour card.
LPGA Tour-bound Cassie Porter was named WPGA Tour of Australasia Participant of the Yr for the primary time.