Dunedin golf prodigy Joanna Ke has blitzed the field to claim one of junior golf’s top titles.<\/p>\n
Ke won the under-9 girls title at the Champion of Champions event in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, finishing with a final score of four-over 113 in the three-round, 27-hole event, this morning.<\/p>\n
The event is considered the biggest junior invitational golf tournament in the world.<\/p>\n
The score left her eight shots ahead of second-placed Ella Sevcikova, of the Czech Republic, while Ireland’s Claire O’Brien was a further 10 shots back in third.<\/p>\n
Coach Shelly Duncan paid tribute to Ke’s performance in a Facebook post, accompanied by pictures of Ke and the trophy.<\/p>\n
“Awesome effort,” Duncan’s post read.<\/p>\n
“Tough weather conditions today, super proud of her.”<\/p>\n
Joanna won the under-9 division competing against seven other golfers in her division.<\/p>\n
The Columba College pupil booked her spot at the tournament, featuring 250 junior golfers across nine age groups from 40 countries, after finishing runner-up at an event in Australia last year.<\/p>\n
Joanna, who plays off a 12.9 handicap, first picked up the clubs at the age of 3 and had been working hard with Shelley Duncan over the past two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dunedin golf prodigy Joanna Ke has blitzed the field to claim one of junior golf’s top titles. Ke…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-37384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}