A 13-year-old golfer from Leominster has secured a place at one of the world’s biggest junior golf competitions.<\/p>\n
Chloe said she was “really happy” to have won Faldo Futures, a competition hosted by former English golfer and TV commentator, Sir Nick Faldo, which means she will compete in the IMG Junior World Championship in San Diego, California, next year.<\/p>\n
“It makes me feel really proud of myself, especially after all the practice I’ve done this summer,” she said.<\/p>\n
Last year, she came first in her age category at another world championship in Marbella, Spain.<\/p>\n
Her father, Lee, said it was “amazing” to watch Chloe compete and meet Faldo.<\/p>\n
He said about 4,000 young golfers had entered the Faldo Futures competition this year.<\/p>\n
“She managed to hold her nerve and she putted for the victory,” he said. “Because she’s won the Faldo Futures she gets straight into the competition.”<\/p>\n
Chloe had progressed through a series of qualifying stages to reach the final. <\/p>\n
“You play in the qualifiers where the top two qualify to get to the regional finals, then the top two qualify from the regional finals to play in the finals,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I’ll be playing against a lot of really good people,” Chloe said.<\/p>\n
Lee said he was particularly proud of how Chloe juggles golf and her education.<\/p>\n
“She practices, she keeps up with her school work and she finds time to do her golf”, he said. <\/p>\n
“She enjoys the golf and it’s great that me and her get to spend more time together.”<\/p>\n
He hopes Chloe’s success will encourage more girls in Herefordshire to take up the sport.<\/p>\n
“Hopefully we can inspire lots more of the local girls to take up golf because it’d be fantastic”, he added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 13-year-old golfer from Leominster has secured a place at one of the world’s biggest junior golf competitions.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-759536","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\/759536","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=759536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}