SELDOM does a ‘gun’ golfer flip skilled then exit and win at their first begin in a event.
Certain, some superstars of the sport have carried out it.
Now you possibly can add Hannah Reeves title to that elite record following final month’s Ford New South Wales Girls’s Open Regional Qualifier at Mollymook Golf Membership’s Hilltop course.
The 23-year-old Reeves was one in every of 5 gamers who turned skilled earlier than teeing it up within the first occasion of the 2025-26 girls’s skilled season.
She was joined by Yerim Kim, June Music, Piper Stubbs and Ann Jang within the professional ranks earlier than the primary spherical at Mollymook
And Reeves’ first-up victory validated the Queenslander’s determination to delay her skilled debut, which she did final season to play for Australia on the Girls’s Newbie Asia-Pacific Championship.
The win additionally assured her a begin within the NSW Open later this summer season.
ROOKIE VICTORY: Hannah Reeves has scored spectacular victories in her first two tournaments since turning skilled.
Amazingly, Reeves – who began the ultimate spherical tied for the lead at one over – performed her entrance 9 in five-over-par 41, not realistically threatening a birdie as a number of opponents raced previous.
However after a monstrous drive on the par-four tenth reached the inexperienced and arrange a two-putt birdie, issues clicked.
At that time, Danni Vasquez-Boyd, who watched in amazement as Reeves’ drive ran previous her toes on the tenth inexperienced, was a three-shot chief.
Simply 20 minutes later, after Vasquez-Boyd imploded, Amelia Mehmet Grohn appeared to have the event in her conserving, solely to falter badly in her closing few holes.
All of the whereas, Reeves hung powerful, birdies at 14 and 16 seeing her shoot clear, earlier than doing sufficient over the closing holes to maintain the hard-charging Stef Corridor at bay by a stroke.
STOP PRESS: Hannah Reeves backed up her victory at Mollymook, with a second win on the NSW Open Wagga qualifier per week later. A second day 66, after a gap spherical 70, noticed Reeves make it an ideal two-from-two in her first two occasions since turning skilled. One other second-event professional in 18-year-old Ann Jang completed a stroke behind.
Mollymook the primary of six
The Mollymook occasion was the primary of six regional qualifiers for the 2026 Ford NSW Girls’s Open, with every event providing a $50,000 prize purse and an opportunity for gamers to assert one in every of simply two qualifying spots within the event correct subsequent March.
2026 Regional Qualifying Schedule• Mollymook Golf Membership – received by Hannah Reeves. Stef Corridor 2nd qualifier • Wagga Wagga Nation Membership: – received by Hannah Reeves• Dubbo Golf Membership: 26 – 28 November 2025• Narrabri Golf Membership: 30 November – 2 December 2025• Moss Vale Golf Membership: 11 – 13 February 2026• The Hyperlinks Shell Cove: 17 – 19 February 2026
