WHILE Australia’s finest ladies golfers had been battling it out within the Queensland Newbie at Bribie, certainly one of our most interesting gamers was winging her solution to the opposite facet of the world.
Shyla Singh, the Australian Junior Champion final yr and winner of the NSW Girls’s Newbie the yr earlier than, was flying to the US to start her time as a pupil on the College of Oregon.
The Queensland leftie will spend the following 4 years finding out Sports activities Enterprise and enjoying golf in a crack squad that features the world’s No 1 novice Kiara Romero.
Singh, 17, who has constructed a powerful CV over the previous few years in Australia, could have few fears about taking over a number of the world’s elite amateurs as she tackles the robust US collegiate circuit.
Only some weeks in the past she made the quarter-finals of the US Ladies’ Junior Championship on the Atlanta Athletic Membership in Georgia, taking down Sydney star Rachel Lee 5&4 within the spherical of 16, earlier than bowing out to No 1 seed, American Grace Carter within the quarters.
“It was very thrilling,” stated Singh, 17, a Southport member since being launched to the sport by her father Vin. “It was my finest efficiency in the course of the time I used to be within the US.”
Singh’s long-range purpose is to play on the LPGA Tour, however she’s in no hurry.
“I’m wanting ahead to gaining extra expertise, acting on a much bigger stage, and competing in opposition to a number of the finest gamers on the planet,” she stated.
Neither is she notably fazed about being away from her family and friends.
“I simply spent 5 – 6 weeks within the US and, although I used to be excited to return residence, I used to be superb with it,” she stated. “Apart from, I’ll be again for 3 or 4 weeks in December.”
Singh gained her first Southport ladies’s membership championship when she was 10 and rapidly turned one of many nation’s high juniors.
She was a part of the Australian crew, together with Sarah Hammett and Amelia Harris, ultimately yr’s Toyota Junior Golf World Cup in Japan, and once more represented her nation in a Ryder Cup-type competitors in opposition to the US nationwide junior crew in Wisconsin.
