Mark Officer Golf

Queenslander Katherine Hull today won the 2009 Australian Ladies Masters at Royal Pines on the Gold Coast. She shot an excellent round of four under par 68 and never looked like relinquishing her lead which was 3 at the start of the day. Tamie Durdin and So Yeon Ryu finished tied second at eleven under. After four successive rounds in the 60′s (69,67,68,68) she quipped, “It’s kinda surreal. I dreamed of winning this tournament as a kid. I’m stoked.” The win follows two runner-up finishes over the previous two weeks and it cements her spot as one of the hottest female golfers on the planet in the last six months. The only blemish to Hull’s round came at the last where she hit a fairway wood second from the right hand fairway trap over the green and then took three more to get down. The Tewantin-Noosa product played very solid golf and showed she has come a long way in the past twelve months and looks like she will continue to improve. Hull, who is currently ranked 26th in the world, birdied her opening hole but it wasn’t until mid-way through her round that she gained momentum with a birdie at the 9th followed by back-to-back birdies at the 12th, 13th and 14th to move, at that stage, six strokes ahead of Tamie Durdin. Best round of the day went to Sydney’s Sarah Oh who shot a 6 under 66 to finish at 4 under and a tie for 20^th.

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