FOLLOWING a three-win season on the LPGA Tour and in a 12 months by which she reached a profession excessive world rating, Western Australian Hannah Inexperienced has been awarded her second Greg Norman Medal.
On the PGA Awards Gala Dinner on Tuesday evening greater than 350 friends attended the glittering awards ceremony at Brisbane Metropolis Corridor at an occasion which serves as a precursor to the BMW Australian PGA Championship, with Inexperienced’s Greg Norman Medal win amongst a complete of 10 awards offered all through the night.
The West Australian climbed to quantity 5 within the Rolex Ladies’s World Golf Rating throughout 2024 on the again of a win on the HSBC Ladies’s World Championship in Thailand in March, a profitable defence of her JM Eagle LA Championship title in April and a wire-to-wire victory on the BMW Girls Championship in Korea.
It was the 27-year-old’s biggest single-season yield in her profession thus far.
Inexperienced additionally received the Greg Norman Medal in 2019 when she had two wins – together with the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship – and was honoured to as soon as once more obtain Australian golf’s highest accolade.
“It has undoubtedly been the most effective years of my profession and to cap it with a second Greg Norman Medal makes it all of the extra particular,” stated Inexperienced, who was in Florida for the season-ending LPGA occasion and unable to attend the PGA Awards.
“I want to thank everybody in my staff, my husband Jarryd, my household and pals for his or her assist this 12 months.”
Available to simply accept the Greg Norman Medal on Inexperienced’s behalf was her coach, Ritchie Smith, who was named PGA Nationwide Coach of the Yr – Excessive Efficiency, for a fourth time.
It’s a fourth nationwide win for Smith, who additionally obtained the Excessive Efficiency gong in 2014, 2019 and 2021 and in 2024 had three gamers – Inexperienced, Minjee Lee and Min Woo Lee – symbolize Australia on the Paris Olympics.
The PGA Awards have been introduced as Inside Golf was going to press. A full checklist of the award winners will probably be printed within the January difficulty.
