“Well, the first hole wasn’t that great! So I had nothing to lose from then on,” said Macdonald, who has been playing golf in Australia for three months after earning a WPGA Tour of Australasia card.<\/p>\n
“I just gave myself opportunities, and it was nice to finish the way I did. I’ve been in Australia since 2 January, taking advantage of the great weather. <\/p>\n
“When I left Scotland it was minus seven degrees so it has been a great opportunity to keep playing.”<\/p>\n
Heath, an LET Access Series graduate who played for Great Britain & Ireland in two Curtis Cups, carded seven birdies and dropped just one shot.<\/p>\n
“It’s quite Florida-esque here and I’m based in Florida now, so it felt quite comfortable to me with the Bermuda grass and [hitting] into the grain,” said the 24-year-old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Well, the first hole wasn’t that great! So I had nothing to lose from then on,” said Macdonald,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-533120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}