On a brutal day at 13th Beach, it was always going to be a case of last man (and woman) standing. And it turned out to be Melburnian Su Oh, who began a potential career resurgence with a victory from nowhere in the women’s Vic Open.
The future of the Australian Open remains unclear with player frustrations boiling over in Melbourne this week after three years of the mixed men’s and women’s format.
Australia has three strong chances of another Major victory with Hannah Green, Minjee Lee and Stephanie Kyriacou are all inside the top 10 heading into the weekend of the AIG Women’s Open at Muirfield.
Jed Morgan sauntered into the history books while Su Oh broke a long winless streak as the Fortinet Australian PGA Championship and the Fortinet Australian WPGA Championship concluded at Royal Queensland today.
Victorian Su Oh will start the final round of the AIG Women’s Open four shots off the lead after using a string of three straight birdies to rescue her third round at Carnoustie Golf Links in Scotland overnight.
Sydney’s Stephanie Kyriacou has drawn on an unlikely source of inspiration to roar into contention at the AIG Women’s Open, firing a brilliant back nine of six-under 30 at Carnoustie Golf Links as one of four Aussies to make the halfway cut.
Minjee Lee and Su Oh were the best of the Australians with one-under par rounds of 71 to be T22 on the opening day of the AIG Women’s Open at Carnoustie
Minjee Lee’s 2016 Olympic teammate Su Oh believes the manner of her recent Major breakthrough at the Evian Championship will serve as the ideal Olympic preparation ahead of the start of the women’s golf competition tomorrow.
Australian Golf Digest
