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\n Countrywoman Grace Kim (r) kicked off Green’s LA Championship celebrations. (AP PHOTO)<\/p>\n
Hannah Green is hoping for a soft landing from “Cloud Nine” as the red-hot Australian golfer seeks to parlay her rich vein of form into a second major championship title. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Green’s third victory at the rich and prestigious LA Championship on Sunday was her fourth win of an already-incredible year entering the season’s first major in Texas.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old has risen to No.5 in the world, overtaking her seventh-ranked Perth stablemate Minjee Lee as the nation’s No.1, ahead of the Chevron Championship starting on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\n Countrywoman Grace Kim (r) kicked off Green’s LA Championship celebrations. (AP PHOTO)<\/p>\n
Even the great Karrie Webb, the only Australian to have won the event, in 2000 and 2006 no less, urged Green to take a day off before ramping up her preparations.<\/p>\n
“We left LA at 1am (Monday); got in just after six,” Green said of her gruelling travel schedule following Sunday night celebrations.<\/p>\n
“Then I went to the golf course, picked up my courtesy car, checked in and went straight to my airbnb and slept for like three or four hours.<\/p>\n
“The plan was to come out at maybe three yesterday afternoon and do some practice, but I texted (my caddie) Dave and I was like, ‘Yeah, no, you will not see me until Tuesday’.<\/p>\n
“He said, ‘rightly deserved’. I was texting Karrie Webb and she was like, ‘I hope you’re taking the day off. And I was like, ‘Yes, I am’. I feel like I’m still somewhat on Cloud Nine. Just too exhausted from the flight over.”<\/p>\n
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\n Green’s Women’s Australian Open triumph at Kooyonga on March 15 kicked off a four-victory surge. (HANDOUT\/GOLF AUSTRALIA)<\/p>\n
But naturally high on confidence, Green still hopes to quickly rebound to contend at Memorial Park Golf Club, seven years after winning her maiden major at the 2019 Women’s PGA Championship.<\/p>\n
“It’s been a really crazy last five, six events that I’ve played,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Obviously every time you come to a tournament, you want to win, have the trophy in your hand.<\/p>\n
“Actually doing it has been very surreal. I’m just going to try and ride this wave for as long as possible.”<\/p>\n
Before last week’s victory, Green was thinking a top-10 in Houston would be a pass mark.<\/p>\n
“Obviously now I’m more hungry to continue the success that I’ve had so far,” she said after Tuesday’s pro-am.<\/p>\n
“I’m going to say yes, I want to win; obviously I do. But I feel like it’s also a really hard task to win back-to-back weeks.<\/p>\n
“Yes, I did that in Australia (at the Women’s Australian Open and Australian WPGA) but probably in a little bit different field. Not a major championship obviously.<\/p>\n
“I want to make sure that even though I am very confident that I’m not getting too ahead of myself. Staying patient out there is what you have to do to win major championships.”<\/p>\n
Green and Lee are spearheading an eight-strong Australian challenge.<\/p>\n
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\n Seen in action in the LA Championship first round, an ailing Minjee Lee withdrew hours later. (AP PHOTO)<\/p>\n
Lee, who withdrew before the second round in Los Angeles, remained “too wiped out” from illness to do her scheduled pre-tournament press conference.<\/p>\n
But her coach Ritchie Smith, who also mentors Green and Lee’s brother Min Woo, is confident the triple major winner has the experience to put herself in contention on a light preparation.<\/p>\n
Rounding out the Aussie contingent are 2025 major winner Grace Kim, fellow Sydneysiders Steph Kyriacou and Cassie Porter, Gabriela Ruffels, Robyn Choi and Karis Davidson.<\/p>\n