{"id":552843,"date":"2026-03-22T08:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T08:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/552843\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T08:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T08:07:10","slug":"hannah-green-wins-australian-wpga-championship-at-sanctuary-cove-golf-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/552843\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah Green wins Australian WPGA Championship at Sanctuary Cove Golf Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hannah Green has defied the exhaustion of a whirlwind month and some final-round tension to win a third straight title and rewrite Australian golfing history.<\/p>\n

The world number seven defied some erratic play to complete a dominant four-stroke victory to sit alone at 16-under on Sunday at the Australian WPGA Championship on the Gold Coast.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Green (65, 67, 67, 69) was forced to scramble when, just as a runaway victory beckoned, she was wayward off the tee to give the field hope.<\/p>\n

But her main challenger, Germany’s Alexandra Forsterling (12-under), could only claw to within two strokes of the leader before the 29-year-old steadied to complete a popular victory.<\/p>\n

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Hannah Green is the first Australian to win three consecutive major-tour tournaments. (AAP: Jason O’Brien)<\/p>\n

South African Casandra Alexander dropped three shots on the first two holes playing in the last group with Green, but recovered to tie for second with Forsterling.<\/p>\n

Green’s Sanctuary Cove triumph followed an Australian Open breakthrough<\/a> and victory at Singapore’s Women’s World Championship \u2014 her seventh LPGA title<\/a> \u2014 in her previous two starts.<\/p>\n

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In doing so, she became the first Australian golfer to complete a hat-trick of titles in major-tour events, something not even Karrie Webb or Greg Norman managed.<\/p>\n

Robert Allenby’s 2005 Triple Crown \u2014 he won the Australian Open, Australian PGA Championship and Australian Masters in successive weeks \u2014 will go down in folklore.<\/p>\n

But all three events were run solely by the PGA Tour of Australasia.<\/p>\n

“It feels really amazing, it hasn’t really sunk in and [it has] been a crazy month, four weeks since I won Singapore,” Green said.<\/p>\n

“But very special to do that in Australia. I didn’t know how I was going to perform.<\/p>\n

“When I have won \u2026 I’ve usually flown under the radar, and it’s hard to back up a win, especially the Aussie Open. It’s such a big week.”<\/p>\n

Green began the day two strokes clear and briefly had a six-shot buffer after just four holes, before successive bogeys saw that advantage reduced to just two.<\/p>\n

A birdie at the ninth \u2014 and a Forsterling dropped shot soon after \u2014 provided welcome breathing room, before the German’s birdie on the last made it a three-shot buffer with two holes remaining for Green.<\/p>\n

The $600,000 event, co-sanctioned with the Ladies European Tour, was being contested for just the second time and first since 2022 after the threat of a cyclone forced its cancellation last year.<\/p>\n

It will return to the Sanctuary Cove layout next year.<\/p>\n

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