Karrie Webb AO, within the dialog as one Australia’s best ever golfers, male or feminine, has accepted an invite to develop into an Honorary Member of The Royal and Historic Golf Membership of St Andrews.
A member of the World Golf Corridor of Fame, Webb obtained the invitation in recognition of her profitable taking part in profession and the substantial contribution in serving to to develop the following technology {of professional} golfers.
Amongst her 57 skilled wins worldwide, Webb has recorded seven main championship victories, was the Women European Tour Rookie of the Yr in 1995, then in 1996 went on to be the LPGA Rookie of the Yr, ending high of the cash listing and turning into the primary LPGA participant to win $1million in a season.
Webb has accomplished the Tremendous Profession Grand Slam – successful every of the 5 main championships in ladies’s golf – and collectively holds the file for essentially the most AIG Girls’s Open victories, with Sherri Steinhauer.
“It’s a privilege to be made an Honorary Member of The Royal and Historic Golf Membership of St Andrews and I’m humbled to be becoming a member of such an esteemed group of golfers on the honorary membership roll,” mentioned Webb.
“Merely put, I really like golf and to be linked with a Membership which holds a lot historical past and likewise shares my ardour for the event of the game is one thing I’m very happy with. This 12 months I had the possibility to see firsthand the funding of The R&A into ladies’s golf once I performed St Andrews on the AIG Girls’s Open.
“It has all the time been an extremely particular Championship to me however to see the way it has developed underneath the auspices of The R&A for the advantage of the gamers was one thing that I used to be actually impressed by,” Webb added.
Karrie Webb teeing off on the Royal & Historic Golf Membership of St Andrews.
Ian Pattinson, the Captain of the Royal and Historic Golf Membership of St Andrews, mentioned, “I want to congratulate Karrie on turning into an Honorary Member of the Royal and Historic Golf Membership of St Andrews. Karrie’s quite a few victories and accolades are a testomony to her expertise, however greater than being an excellent champion herself, Karrie is a job mannequin to many younger golfers and takes an energetic curiosity within the improvement of the following technology of Australian champions.
“She embodies lots of the sporting qualities that make golf particular and completely deserves this recognition. We welcome Karrie into membership and sit up for seeing her in St Andrews once more sooner or later.”
Webb represented Australia, on the 1994 Espirito Santo Trophy and the 2005 Girls’s World Cup, was a torch bearer on the Olympic Video games in Sydney and this 12 months was the captain of Australia’s Olympic golf group in Paris.
Devoted to charitable work, alongside Golf Australia Webb based the Karrie Webb Sequence and scholarship, every year mentoring the highest two Australian ladies beginner gamers. Previous recipients of the Karrie Webb Sequence and scholarship embrace Minjee Lee and Hannah Inexperienced, with each occurring to develop into main champions.
Different Honorary Members of The Royal and Historic Golf Membership of St Andrews embrace: Dame Laura Davies, Ernie Els, Pádraig Harrington, Paul Lawrie, Catriona Matthew, Rory McIlroy, Nick Value, Belle Robertson, Annika Sörenstam and Tiger Woods.
– From the R&A
