Laura Davies won her second Aussie Open (the first was in 2004 at Concord Golf Club) She closed on a four-round total of seven-under-par, one stroke ahead of Spain’s Tania Elosegui. Another Englander, Mel Reid from Derby, came tied third.

Davies was 11 shots behind the lead going into the weekend after opening rounds of 74 and 76 but she made a tremendous charge up the leader board with a six-under 67 on Saturday. 

According to an Ladies European Tour reporter at the Metropolitan Golf Club in Melbourne it was a “monster Eagle putt” right from the front of the green on the par 5 14th hole that helped give her a 2-stroke advantage with three holes left to play in the final round. It puts Davies at the top of the LET money list.

It was the previous week at the Ladies’ Masters that Ms Davies approached Yes! Golf Australia rep Greg Tucker to have her existing Yes! Valerie putter adjusted – the one with the distinctive Liverpool FC grip – and picked up a Donna Putter, the scandalously good blade / mallet hybrid launched last year, her response was “this is the one” She put it straight in the bag for the 2nd round of the Ladies’ Masters and it clearly paid dividends. A win the following week, Aussie Women’s Open Champion.

Melissa Reid also took up a Yes! Putter at the Masters – a custom-fitted Callie, one of the most popular putter models Yes! Golf has ever produced.

An exceptionally good day’s work for the Yes! Australia team was rounded off with one of the best putter counts ever recorded in the country, coming first by a healthy margin of 20% with 44 putters in play. In all, 8 of the top 25 places in the tournament went to players with C-Groove technology in the bag.

Yes! Golf famously brought its Tour offering within the reach of club golfers in 2007, when the UK division launched its first club-based putter custom-fitting centre at Henbury near Bristol in the country’s south-west. Now the footprint for the custom-fit centres / Harold Swash Putting School numbers over 230 centres from Dublin to Belek in Turkey.

Yes! Golf in Australia is represented by Champion Sports. Contact Greg Tucker This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or visit www.yesgolf.net.au

Editor note

Other Yes! Putter users in Melbourne included Beatrice Recari (Spain) with her Sandy, and Lynn Kenny (Scotland) with her Victoria II. For photographs please contact Dominic O’Byrne This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it