retain her poise when it mattered most<\/a>.<\/p>\nShe felt comfortable telling Felton she felt unbalanced by nerves. He was quick to offer a snack, some water, or to make another point that enabled her to handle the \u201cadrenaline\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was a bit nervous at the start, to be honest, because he hasn\u2019t really caddied for me since I was on the Epson Tour about 10 years ago, so it\u2019s been a long time (and it was) fairly new for both of us,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI guess, luckily, I do some of my own types of things when I\u2019m on the course, looking at my yardage book and things like that, so it kind of made it a bit more manageable. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut he kind of just went into full caddie mode. He was helping with the club decision (and) reading some of my putts when I asked him to (and) I think I was really fortunate to have him there, kind of the last nine holes, especially in Singapore. <\/p>\n
\u201cI felt like I was probably more nervous than I have been before, and it was nice to just have, I guess, a fellow golfer as well as, you know, my husband be right there next to me, to kind of acknowledge that I was nervous, but then also try and distract me, in a way, from what the situation really was. It was a day we\u2019ll definitely both remember.\u201d<\/p>\n
SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE – MARCH 01: Hannah Green of Australia and her husband and caddie Jarryd Felton.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
SUMMER SABBATICAL SPARKS STIRRING START<\/p>\n
Moments like these do not come every week in professional sport, with the triumph in Singapore proving seventh heaven for Green – seven happens to be the couple\u2019s lucky number.<\/p>\n
But the reality of professional sport is that, much like a carnival or circus, the participants move on extremely swiftly and there is not a host of time to be able to enjoy the triumph.<\/p>\n
The celebrations on the 18th were cool, with fellow Aussies Steph Kyriacou and Grace Kim showering Green in champagne before the winner shared a swig of bubbles with her man.<\/p>\n
But they were on a flight back to Perth that night in order to have a brief break before tackling the Australian Open and Australian WPGA Championship double this month.<\/p>\n
A break back in the west over summer helped revive Green after a testing 2025 in which she missed out on a victory after three triumphs in 2024 and slid from the top 10.<\/p>\n
There is much to love about Perth, from the white sand beaches to the superb Swan River and some magnificent golf courses dotted across the city from Fremantle to Joondalup.<\/p>\n
But the West Aussie, who won the 2019 PGA Championship at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Minnesota, opted against touching her clubs despite feeling an urge during the sabbatical.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did go to Hawaii for a sponsored trip, and then came back to Perth for a few days, and then actually went to Bali with some of my friends,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI celebrated my birthday there and probably had four or five days up there just doing nothing, which was really nice and probably an easier way for me to switch off when I wasn\u2019t at home. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut I feel like the Christmas, New Year period is always really busy catching up with friends and family. Obviously, I\u2019m not always home all year round, so trying to make sure that I see everyone as much as possible is kind of what we did. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo I actually found it quite easy to distract myself from golf, and I could have easily touched a club earlier than when I did, but I just felt like by giving myself an extra week of rest, it was going to make me more motivated to get back into practice. And I felt like four weeks was plenty enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA March 9, 2026: Hannah Green at a press conference ahead of the women\u2019s open.Source: News Corp Australia<\/p>\n
Green and her coach Ritchie Smith opted against tinkering too much and when she headed off to Thailand in mid-February, there was confidence in the camp about what was to come.<\/p>\n
She finished seventh there, five shots in arrears after finishing at 19-under, and arrived in Singapore content in the knowledge she tends to play well at courses she has succeeded at.<\/p>\n
\u201cRichie and I weren\u2019t really working on anything too different to what I have been in \u2026 my last 20 years of playing golf, to be honest, so it wasn\u2019t like I had to recreate anything,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was kind of just yet, getting back into it and obviously monitoring what we were working on. So \u2026 I felt really refreshed and very motivated. And I feel like if I didn\u2019t take time off, I just wouldn\u2019t enjoy it. I would feel like it\u2019s a bit too repetitive. That\u2019s just how I personally feel. And some other players are very different, and we all take different approaches to our pre-season but yeah, I found it quite easy to take time away from golf.\u201d<\/p>\n
SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE – MARCH 01: Hannah Green of Australia is congratulated by Stephanie Kyriacou, Grace Kim and Karis Davidson.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
WHY KOOYONGA HOLDS A PLACE IN HER HEART<\/p>\n
It is no surprise that Kyriacou and Kim raced on to the green in Singapore to celebrate.<\/p>\n
Nor that in the lead-in to this week\u2019s Australian Open, Green has featured alongside Lee and Kim in social media posts. The Aussies are a tight knit bunch who want collective success.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we had maybe seven Australians in the field in Singapore last week, which I think is probably one of the most we\u2019ve had in a long time, so all the girls reached out to say congratulations, (even) those who weren\u2019t there in person,\u201d Green said. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut yes, we are a very tight knit group. I think because we do live so far away from \u2026 the US, it\u2019s kind of nice that we have one another and travel with one another. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo I think we still are very competitive against one another, no matter what it is, whether it\u2019s golf or, I don\u2019t know, any type of sport (but it is) nice to have that camaraderie among the other girls.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fact they play so far from home is part of what makes the next fortnight at Kooyonga and Sanctuary Cove on the Gold Coast a special time for Green and her compatriots.<\/p>\n
It is also an important time for Australia to showcase its magnificent courses and the quality of the fields both events have drawn ensures they will receive global attention.<\/p>\n
As an amateur, Green befriended a group of younger golfers in South Australia and is hoping they will be at the Adelaide event to recreate what has become a regular \u201cselfie\u201d.<\/p>\n
Green said Kooyonga will forever hold a special place in her heart. Back in 2018 she played a practice round with Webb, a mentor, before finishing third in a big step forward.<\/p>\n
That, she believes, proved critical to her securing an LPGA Tour card and the following year she broke through for the stunning success in Minnesota.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish we had more events that we could play that perhaps fit in the LPGA schedule, but I\u2019m really excited to get back to Adelaide,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we were back in Kooyonga in 2018, that\u2019s where I kind of set up my year. I had a third-place finish, and that was my rookie year, and I actually didn\u2019t really play all great the rest of the season. <\/p>\n
Hannah Green at Kooyonga in 2018.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cSo that start or that finish, I should say, really set up the rest of my year. And (in) 2019 I went on to win a major, so perhaps if I didn\u2019t have that co-sanctioned result, I wouldn\u2019t be called a major champion. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo yeah, I\u2019m excited to get back to Adelaide. The crowds are always great. You know, when we played, I think it was five years ago, we\u2019ve always had really good crowds. I\u2019m hoping those people can come back and watch us. <\/p>\n
\u201c(And) it\u2019s just about giving back, I guess, to Australian golf. Obviously, Minjee and I are now both in the top 10 and we\u2019ve got really strong players as well as you know with Grace Kim, Carrie, Steph, all of the girls, so hopefully we can get good crowds for both of those tournaments.\u201d<\/p>\n
EYEING OFF THE BIG ONES<\/p>\n
Continuing the theme of balance, Green is hoping for a more even year, mindful she has tended to start seasons well before her form becoming more sporadic down the stretch.<\/p>\n
She wants to be in contention more frequently in majors and will base herself in Dallas-Fort Worth after her Australian stint to prepare for The Chevron Championship in April.<\/p>\n
It is being held at the Memorial Park Golf Club in Houston and the Aussie is planning on familiarising herself with the course while The Masters is being held at Augusta.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I\u2019ve put too much pressure on myself, especially last year, perhaps with my ranking being as high as it was \u2026 for the first time going into those majors,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo obviously now I\u2019ve just jumped back into the top 10, and perhaps there might be more eyes on me, but there probably will be more pressure on myself to perform better.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really just hope that I can have a more consistent year. Obviously, I\u2019d love to have major championship trophies in my hand, but I\u2019d love to contend more than I have in the past. So yeah, that\u2019s kind of the goal of mine so far.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hannah Green has spent the early stages of 2026 finding a good balance and it is a healthy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-535265","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\/535265","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=535265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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