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.
In the season opening Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship last week, in which Herbert contended
strongly – at least until the weekend - he averaged 321 yards off the tee, a significant improvement on his 2020 season average of 301.25 yards.
But it took an early morning Zoom chat with his Peregian coach Dom Azzopardi to sort out a few teething problems with the booming new driver.
“He was losing a few right with this driver in practice and I talked to him about what’s going to cause that in his technique, particularly now that he’s got the ball further forward,” Azzopardi said.
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Dec 12, 2020 08:05 PM EST
Thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump came in droves to Washington DC on Saturday for another Million MAGA March, which has been described as generally peaceful by the Police despite several arrests made.
Most of those who attended also graced a similar event four weeks ago on November 14, wherein they came to support Trump and claimed that the election had been stolen from their president.
According to NPR, Trump s supporters marched through Freedom Plaza, holding up white power symbols.
The Million Maga March s website stated that they are gathering again to protest the corruption and dishonesty that is taking place in Our Country.