{"id":532767,"date":"2026-03-11T07:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532767\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T07:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:14:15","slug":"love-marriage-and-yardages-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532767\/","title":{"rendered":"Love, marriage and yardages \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"

The dynamic between player and caddie is an interesting one, and for one of Australia\u2019s top players the past few weeks has included another layer as Hannah Green\u2019s husband, Jarryd Felton, stepped in as bagman for the major champion.<\/p>\n

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Normally employing the husband of two-time Women\u2019s Australian Open winner, Ashleigh Buhai, Green was forced to start the season without Dave Buhai as he sorts a visa in America, which led to three-time Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia winner Felton taking the role.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a job both player and caddie are quick to outline is a nice change in small doses.<\/p>\n

\u201cGood for a limited amount of time,\u201d Felton told Australian Golf Digest when asked if combining work and home life is a recipe for success.<\/p>\n

Adds Green: \u201cGood, if I play well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Struggling with his own game in recent times, the change in direction has netted Felton a personal revitalisation, while Green picked up her seventh LPGA Tour title in Singapore two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t change it for the world,\u201d Felton says of the experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, I\u2019m a bit biased as we won two weeks ago, but even the first week in Thailand, it\u2019s kind of rejuvenated my love for the game. And seeing her play and go about her craft has been great.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As for Buhai\u2019s job security, Green says player and caddie are on the page to such an extent that he didn\u2019t feel the need to ask if he\u2019d been replaced when the married couple combined for a trophy.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, he hasn\u2019t actually asked that question,\u201d laughed Green, who tees off in the Women\u2019s Australian Open at Kooyonga at 7:41am on Thursday alongside fellow WA major winner Minjee Lee and Singapore\u2019s Shannon Tan.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause I hope that he knows that his job is safe, but no, he was really ecstatic for both of Jarryd and I.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s just itching to get back out caddieing. He has not worked since CME, which is late November, so that\u2019s quite a long time for caddie to have off. But no, he was one of the first people to send us a message to congratulate us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Buhai set to return after the next fortnight at Kooyonga Golf Club and the Australian WPGA Championship on the Gold Coast, after which Felton will turn his attention back to his own game with perhaps a newfound appreciation for the other side of the player-caddie dynamic.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a lot of fun,\u201d Green summed up working with her husband.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like it makes me maybe a little bit more patient on the golf course. Sometimes I maybe ask questions too quickly for someone that\u2019s never really caddied on tour before. But no, he\u2019s doing a good job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even if that job has meant occasional confusion as to who is hitting the shots and who carrying the bag.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019s dropped anything, but he has accidentally once given me the headcover instead of the driver. But we did have a little chuckle at that,\u201d Green said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The dynamic between player and caddie is an interesting one, and for one of Australia\u2019s top players the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,122462,29527,256732,234505,28635,85,234507,178135],"class_list":["post-532767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-golf-australia","tag-hannah-green","tag-jarryd-felton","tag-kooyonga-golf-club","tag-ladies-european-tour","tag-sports","tag-womens-australian-open","tag-wpga-tour-of-australasia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532767","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=532767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}