Hannah Green ends home drought with emotional Women\u2019s Australian Open victory<\/a><\/p>\nFor a time, it looked like the 22-year-old Queenslander might pull off the unthinkable. Instead, she had to settle for a share of second alongside France\u2019s\u00a0Agathe Laisn\u00e9\u00a0\u2013 a result that still felt like a defining moment for one of Australian golf\u2019s brightest emerging talents.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m kind of speechless right now, to be honest,\u201d Porter said after the round when asked to describe her performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just really nice for everything to come together. I know as professional golfers and amateur golfers and everyone that just plays golf dreams of a day that everything just works. And I\u2019m very fortunate that today was that day.\u201d<\/p>\n
While eventual champion\u00a0Hannah Green\u00a0battled the pressure of leading the national championship, Porter was quietly piecing together something special. Birdies began to fall early \u2013 and then they simply kept coming.<\/p>\n
The idea of a miracle charge had initially been little more than a joke.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis morning my boyfriend just said, \u2018Hey, well you\u2019re not out of it if you shoot 10-under,\u2019\u201d Porter said. \u201cSo, obviously that\u2019s in the back of your mind as a joke, but then I started holing some putts and then I kept holing (more) putts and then I was, like, \u2018Oh wow, maybe I\u2019m two behind now.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
As the round gathered momentum, the possibility of winning Australia\u2019s national championship suddenly felt real.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think maybe down the 18th I said to Blandy, \u2018Hey look, if we get a birdie here, we\u2019ve a good chance we have to hang around,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cSo, yeah, maybe down the 18th, but I wasn\u2019t really thinking about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Porter rolled in yet another birdie putt at the last to cap the 62, setting the clubhouse target and forcing the leaders to respond. With around an hour to wait while the final groups finished, she was left in limbo \u2013\u00a0part hopeful, part exhausted after the round of her life.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to go have something to eat because I\u2019m starving,\u201d she said with a laugh. \u201cBut then maybe do some putting, a couple of drives, see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ultimately Green would hold her nerve to claim the title by a single stroke, but Porter\u2019s electrifying charge ensured a small part of Sunday in Adelaide belonged to the young challenger as it did the champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cassie Porter\u00a0produced the round of her young career at\u00a0Kooyonga Golf Club\u00a0on Sunday, firing a stunning course-record 10-under-par 62…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[124656,64,63,29756,226834,755,29527,234505,85,234507],"class_list":["post-541700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-124656","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cassie-porter","tag-course-record","tag-golf","tag-hannah-green","tag-kooyonga-golf-club","tag-sports","tag-womens-australian-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541700","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=541700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}