Published - 3 weeks By - Golf Australia
Gold Coast golfer Jordan O’Brien flew the flag proudly for International Women’s Day with a stunning 67 on Monday to qualify for the Isuzu Queensland Open.
Birdies will always beat biceps because the petite 56kg amateur grabbed eight at Pelican Waters Golf Club to leave a host of male pros and amateurs in her wake.
Despite regularly giving up 30-40m off the tee to her three male playing partners, she rode her own excellent driving and short game to the biggest moment of her career.
The Royal Pines member played the course off the same tees as the men albeit from the forward markers in operation for pre-qualifying day.
We ve made our way around it with FaceTime and other technology that we re able to use these days… and we ve been doing a really good job of staying on top of it, said Smith, who honed his game as a junior on the Invincibles Sunshine Coast Tour. In fact, Smith said his celebrated short game was as good as it has ever been. I ve putted really well. I feel as though if I can get my longer stuff, and especially my irons into a good spot, I ll be able to compete every week. So, I m just working on that with Fieldy… not trying to overdo it, just little steps. Hopefully it all falls into place very soon.