Life and career
Hannah Green was born on 20 December 1996 in Perth, Western Australia. [1] Her father played golf, and she took up the sport aged nine after hitting with his clubs. She grew up playing golf at Mt Lawley Golf Club near her home city. [2] Green later attended Como Secondary College and was in the golf academy at the school. [3] In 2012, she was a member of the Australian team that defeated New Zealand 34.5–12.5 in the Trans Tasman Cup, an amateur team competition between the two nations. [4] In 2014, she won the WA Amateur Championship, [5] and the Dunes Medal. [6] In 2015, Green helped Australia win the Astor Trophy, a tournament featuring teams from the Commonwealth, [7] and won the Karrie Webb scholarship, which gave her financial support for travel expenses as well as coaching from Karrie Webb. [1] That year, she won the Victorian Women's Amateur Championship, [8] and finished second in the Handa New Zealand Women's Open Championship behind Lydia Ko. [9]
Green turned professional in 2016 [1] and recorded two pro-am wins that year: Pennant Hills Pro Am and the Hope Island Pro Am. [10] The following year, she played on the Symetra Tour, winning three times, at the Sara Bay Classic, [11] the Murphy USA El Dorado Shootout, [12] and the IOA Golf Classic. [13] After twelve top-10 finishes, she finished second on the money list and won the Rookie of the Year award. She earned her 2018 LPGA Tour card as a result. [12] [14] During the 2018 LPGA Tour, Green made the cut at 14 out of 24 events, recording one top-10 finish. [15] That came at the ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open, where she finished third, four shots behind champion Ko Jin-young of South Korea. [16]
In February 2019, Green finished tied-10th at the Handa Women's Australian Open. [17] In June, she won her first major (and first LPGA Tour event), the Women's PGA Championship, by one stroke over defending champion Park Sung-hyun. It was the first wire-to-wire win at the Women's PGA Championship since Yani Tseng in 2011 and the first major win by an Australian since Karrie Webb at the 2006 Kraft Nabisco Championship. [18] At the start of the tournament, held at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota, Green was ranked 114th in the world. [19] Her victory made her the third Australian woman to win a major, after Webb and Jan Stephenson. [20] [21] Her best previous major finish was a tied for 16th at the 2018 ANA Inspiration. [22]
On 1 September 2019, Green won her second LPGA Tour event at the Cambia Portland Classic, [23] and she finished tied-10th at the Toto Japan Classic. [24] Green was awarded the Greg Norman Medal in December, [25] and in February 2020, she was jointly awarded the 2019 Western Australian Sports Star of the Year with Australian rules football player, Nat Fyfe. [26] Over the course of the 2020 LPGA season, Green made the cut at thirteen of the fourteen events that she entered with one top-10 finish. [27] Her top-10 finish was achieved at the CME Group Tour Championship, where she finished in a tie for second, five strokes behind Ko Jin-young. [28]
In April 2021, Green finished joint runner-up at the HSBC Women's World Championship, bogeying her final two holes to finish one shot behind South Korea's Hyo Joo Kim, [29] and tied-3rd at the Hugel-Air Premia LA Open. [30] In June, she recorded a tied-3rd-place finish at the LPGA Mediheal Championship. [31] On 4–7 August 2021, Green represented Australia in the women's individual event at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. She scored 13-under-par across the four rounds and finished fifth overall. [32]
In 2022, Green claimed victory at the Vic Open, [33] before winning the TPS Murray River tournament. Her triumph in the latter made her the first woman to win a 72-hole mixed gender event on a leading tour. [34] In March, she finished tied-6th at the HSBC Women's World Championship, [35] and in a tie for eighth at the Chevron Championship. [36] In April, at the DIO Implant LA Open, Green finished in second position, three strokes behind Nasa Hataoka. [37] In May, she led the Palos Verdes Championship by one stroke following the conclusion of the penultimate round, but eventually finished in a tie for fifth after making four bogeys during her final round. [38] She finished tied-5th at the Women's PGA Championship. [39] In September, she finished tied-3rd at the AmazingCre Portland Classic, [40] and in November, she posted a tied-4th finish at the Pelican Women's Championship. [41] During the 2022 LPGA Tour season, Green made the cut at all 21 events that she entered and recorded nine top-10 finishes. [27]
In 2023, Green was victorious at the JM Eagle LA Championship after defeating Aditi Ashok and Lin Xiyu in a playoff. [42] She represented Australia at the International Crown and helped the team overcome Sweden 3–0 in the semi-finals [43] before losing losing to Thailand by the same scoreline in the final. [44] In August, she finished tied-4th at the CPKC Women's Open. [45] During the 2023 LPGA Tour season, Green made the cut at 16 out of 18 events and recorded 3 top-10 finishes. [27]
In March 2024, Green triumphed at the HSBC Women's World Championship. She made a birdie on the final hole to clinch a one-stroke victory from Céline Boutier. [46] The following month, she claimed another LPGA title, after clinching a three-shot victory at the JM Eagle LA Championship. [47] The victory helped her rise ten places in the world rankings to a career-high ranking of eight. [48] Later in the month, after finishing runner-up to Nelly Korda at the Mizuho Americas Open, [49] she reached number five in the rankings. [50] At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Green finished in a tie for fourth, one shot away from the bronze-medal position. It was the best ever finish by an Australian in an Olympic golf event. [51] In October, she secured her third LPGA title of the year, with a one-stroke triumph over Boutier at the BMW Ladies Championship. [52] At the end of the year, she was awarded the Greg Norman Medal for a second time. [53]
In February 2025, Green finished tied-4th at the LPGA Founders Cup [54] and the following month, she finished tied-7th at the HSBC Women's World Championship. [55] A few weeks later, her defence of her JM Eagle LA Championship title ended with a tied-9th-placed finish. [56] Green missed the cut at the Evian Championship in July, marking the first of five missed cuts in her next six tournaments. [57] In October, Green finished tied-5th at the BMW Championship, [58] before helping Australia win the International Crown for the first time. [59] The following month, at the Maybank Championship, Green reached a three-way playoff, but was ultimately defeated by Miyū Yamashita who won the title. [60]
In 2026, Green won the HSBC Women's World Championship for a second time after securing a one-stroke victory in Singapore. [61] Her husband acted as her caddie after her regular caddie was unavailable. [62] Two weeks later, she was victorious at the Women's Australian Open. She secured a one-stroke victory to earn her first Ladies European Tour title and become the first Australian to win the title since 2014. [63] The following week, Green secured her third successive victory, after triumphing at the Australian WPGA Championship. With her husband again standing in as her caddie, she finished four strokes ahead of the field to become the first Australian female golfer to win three international events in succession. [64]
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