{"id":345906,"date":"2023-11-12T01:06:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T02:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=345906"},"modified":"2023-11-12T04:02:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T04:02:39","slug":"aussie-golf-stars-big-goal-after-long-awaited-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=345906","title":{"rendered":"Aussie golf star&#039;s &#039;big goal&#039; after long-awaited win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian golf star Hannah Green has signalled her intention to compete at next year&#x27;s Olympic Games in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/golf\/news-2023-australian-hannah-green-wins-lpga-at-wilshire-in-a-playoff\/c9b10b51-b3de-4049-a33c-9549f56d5936\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"her \ufeffwin at the JM Eagle LA Championship\">her \ufeffwin at the JM Eagle LA Championship<\/a> earlier this year, Green feels re-energised to fight at the front of the pack.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;\ufeffParis is a big goal of mine,&quot; she told Nine&#x27;s <em>Sports Sunday<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/news-2023-raphael-dwamena-dead-at-28-after-collapsing-during-albanian-super-league-game\/2f070319-38b5-4cb8-92c3-7426a4c34233\" target=\"\" title=\"Ghana football star dies after mid-game collapse\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Ghana football star dies after mid-game collapse<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/world-cup-2023-mitchell-marsh-hundred-australia-bangladesh-mark-taylor-comments\/f7fd23ec-f21a-4668-9fcf-559fa45ad7fc\" target=\"\" title=\"Australia&#x27;s new insane record after Marsh&#x27;s winning ton\ufeff\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Australia&#x27;s new insane record after Marsh&#x27;s winning ton\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/epl-news-2023-ange-postecoglou-tottenham-hotspur-stunned-wolverhampton-wanderers-mario-lemina-winner\/1f841da8-c68a-4e19-8e4b-2d489d75ee8b\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Ange&#x27;s Spurs rocked by nightmare late collapse\ufeff\"><strong>Ange&#x27;s Spurs rocked by nightmare late collapse\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I had a great 2022 season. With our rankings, it&#x27;s done over two years so I&#x27;ve just got to keep playing my best golf for the next six months.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"d8c7c6b6-046a-42e3-b3fb-47b6f3f93cd9\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/d8c7c6b6-046a-42e3-b3fb-47b6f3f93cd9\" alt=\"Australia&#x27;s Hannah Green plays a shot on the 18th hole during the final round of the 2023 NW Arkansas Championship.\" data-width=\"3352\" data-height=\"1885\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\ufeffIn May, Green won the JM Eagle LA Championship to chalk up her long-awaited third career win on the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/golf\/lpga-tour\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"LPGA Tour\">LPGA Tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Having spent five years on tour, the 26-year-old reflected on how tough it is to be successful week-in, week-out.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;\ufeffIt&#x27;s the most difficult thing about professional golf,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;\ufeffSometimes you play your best golf and there&#x27;s someone who just plays better than you. It&#x27;s really hard. There&#x27;s just so much talent coming along in the men&#x27;s and women&#x27;s games.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Last year, we had nearly 30 events on tour and for 11 of the winners, it was their first time. So, it&#x27;s hard to win out there whether you&#x27;re a seasoned veteran or if it&#x27;s your first time on tour.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Green clinched her \ufefffirst major, <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/golf\/aussie-hannah-green-wins-women-s-pga\/03ab7561-7472-455b-930d-1e9fb11d37a7\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"the women&#x27;s PGA Championship, in 2019\">the women&#x27;s PGA Championship, in 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"29a4edd8-bacf-4bd8-9174-17059cc02aca\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/29a4edd8-bacf-4bd8-9174-17059cc02aca\" alt=\"Hannah Green celebrates winning the LPGA Championship\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Under high stress, the Perth local shot a 72 for a nine-under total of 207 to win by one shot from defending champion Sung Hyun Park (68).<\/p>\n<p>&quot;That entire week, I never expected to \ufeffwin. I don&#x27;t know, maybe that was a good mindset to have,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;\ufeffOnce I got in that moment, it was so new to me that I had no fear.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;\ufeffNow that I&#x27;ve been on your for several years, there are a few more nerves but in a different way.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Having that tournament win, especially being a major championship, it gives me a lot of confidence for when I&#x27;m in those tight, high-pressure moments and it definitely makes me more hungry to hoist the trophy again.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Green\ufeff made her Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020 where she finished equal fifth in the women&#x27;s individual stroke play event, <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/olympics\/tokyo-olympics-2021-australian-golfer-hannah-green-may-have-already-won-a-medal-due-to-weather\/63d2332f-c75a-4238-8d7e-d61a923af196\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"three shots short of a podium finish\">three shots short of a podium finish<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Australian golf star Hannah Green has signalled her intention to compete at next year&#x27;s Olympic Games in Paris. In the wake of her \ufeffwin at <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=345906\" title=\"Aussie golf star&#039;s &#039;big goal&#039; after long-awaited win\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":345908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345906"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345911,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345906\/revisions\/345911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/345908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}