Multi-talented Ashleigh Barty has conquered tennis, been an expert cricketer and has now added one other string to her sporting bow by successful a golf match. The world primary Australian would ordinarily be in Europe getting ready to defend her French Open crown on the Roland Garros clay. However she pulled out over coronavirus fears, having additionally missed the US Open, and as an alternative of swinging a racquet picked up her golf golf equipment.
The 24-year-old proved she has what it takes on a course designed by Greg Norman, claiming the Brookwater Golf Membership ladies’s title close to Brisbane with a commanding 7 and 5 triumph within the matchplay last.
“Champions,” she wrote on Instagram Monday accompanying an image of herself holding a trophy alongside males’s winner Louis Dobbelaar.
“Is there something you possibly can’t do?,” requested one social media consumer, whereas one other equally in awe wrote: “Wait…what? Tennis-Cricket-Tennis-Golf? @ashbarty – you magnificence!”
Barty, who performed cricket for Brisbane Warmth within the Women’s Big Bash League in 2015-16, has been engaged on her golf sport throughout her Covid-19 enforced absence from tennis.
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Native media stated she had slashed her handicap from 10 to 4 whereas enjoying rounds with fellow Grand Slam winner Pat Rafter and her boyfriend Garry Kissick.
Kissick is a PGA trainee skilled at Brookwater, the place he first met Barty in 2016.
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