{"id":35382,"date":"2025-07-31T08:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T08:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/35382\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T08:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T08:44:12","slug":"open-championship-leader-turned-aig-womens-open-caddie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/35382\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Championship leader turned AIG Women’s Open caddie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\"Jacob\t\t<\/a>
\n\"Darcey<\/p>\n

Jacob Skov Olesen: Open Championship leader turned AIG Women’s Open caddie<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Jacob
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Darcey
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\t\t\tJacob Skov Olesen topped the leaderboard on the opening day of the Open Championship. Now, he\u2019s turned to a bagman role at Royal Porthcawl.<\/p>\n

Welsh professional golfer Darcey Harry is emerging as one of the most exciting young talents on the Ladies European Tour. The 22-year-old secured her first LET title at the 2025 Hulencourt Women\u2019s Open in Belgium, with her boyfriend, Danish golfer Jacob Skov Olesen<\/a>, on the bag for the first time.<\/p>\n

Harry turned professional in late 2024 following a successful amateur career that included a win on the Santander Golf Tour. Her win in Belgium was a breakthrough, made even more memorable by the dynamic of having Olesen as her caddie. Following the win, she said she had learned a lot from having her partner on the bag, and joked that Olesen \u201cwas very good, so he\u2019s not going to be allowed to go back to playing now\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Darcey<\/p>\n

Jacob Skov Olesen made headlines himself at the 2025 Open Championship<\/a> by finishing the first round tied for the lead after an impressive score of 67 at Royal Portrush. It was a remarkable achievement for the 26-year-old, who only turned professional in late 2024 and entered the championship ranked outside the top 300 in the world. It was his second major appearance \u2013 both of which have come at The Open \u2013 and he made the cut both times. <\/p>\n

In 2024, Olesen became the first Dane to win The Amateur Championship, which was held at Ballyliffin. Since turning professional, he has earned his DP World Tour card and already recorded several top-10 finishes, including a tie for seventh at the Joburg Open. <\/p>\n

Speaking to the media ahead of the tournament in South Wales, Harry shared what she\u2019d learnt from Olesen\u2019s performance at Royal Portrush.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe second day, he had a really nerve-racking tee shot and kind of made a mess of the 1st hole. He spoke to me about it, and I\u2019ve learned a lot off of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve kind of spoken of the game plan and learned from what he was challenged with last week, or two weeks ago. It\u2019s kind of stay out of those pot fairway bunkers and just play as safe as possible, really try to hit as many fairways. It\u2019s kind of the goal for this week.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a little bit of competitiveness between the pair, with Harry beating the DP World Tour player in the race to a first tour title.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did have a competition who would win their first competition, and I did win that one, which was nice. I think it\u2019s just we both drive each other on.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhoever does the best pays for dinner. That\u2019s kind of the little competition we have going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Local golfer Harry takes to the links this week as part of the 144-player field at the AIG Women\u2019s Open, with Olesen back on the bag. With her boyfriend as caddie, and the final women\u2019s major of the season being played at her home course of Royal Porthcawl<\/a>, could this be a winning combination? <\/p>\n

\t\tAbout the author<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Sarah
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Deputy Digital Editor. Social media geek. Single figure player (most days).<\/p>\n

Sarah Pyett is the Deputy Digital Editor of todays-golfer.com. She plays off a handicap of 4, and specializes in ladies\u2019 equipment reviews, including drivers, irons, and golf balls.<\/p>\n

After a career in a golf professional shop, and earning a qualification in golf club management, Sarah joined Bauer in 2014 as a Web Producer for Today\u2019s Golfer. She has since worked across multiple brands in a mixture of digital marketing and paid media roles, before returning to focus on golf full-time as Deputy Digital Editor in 2024.<\/p>\n

She has been playing golf for over 25 years, and has been a part of multiple club and county teams. She is currently a member of England Golf\u2019s iGolf Club, allowing her to experience many different courses whilst maintaining her 5 handicap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacob Skov Olesen: Open Championship leader turned AIG Women’s Open caddie Jacob Skov Olesen topped the leaderboard on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-35382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}