Sally Watson knee op will rule her out until autumn
Note from Colin Farquharson: In the following excerpt from the last Curtis Cup interviews in the Media Centre at the Old Course on Sunday, Sally Watson revealed that she is to have a knee operation this week, which will rule out her out of golf until the autumn.
Sally has already been named in the Scotland squad for the European girls' team championship at Murcar Links from July 8 to 12.
Rebecca Wilson (Monifieth) is the first reserve.
Turning pro not on the immediate
horizon for Sally and Krystle
Q: And the girls, do you see yourselves being on the team in two years?
SALLY WATSON: Well, I'm still going to be amateur, so hopefully my game will continue to improve over the next two years. I think now that I have been on a Curtis Cup team and I have lost, it's just going to be wanting revenge even more, wanting to win even more.
Hopefully having that little bit more experience in the Curtis Cup and knowing a little bit more about what to expect, and hopefully we can all play well next time and come out on top.
But I think having this experience has really helped my game and has helped just develop me as a golfer, and I think everyone would just kind of thank the LGU for giving us this opportunity, because it is really a once in a lifetime opportunity.
KRYSTLE CAITHNESS: Yeah, I'm going to stay amateur, also, and I hope to make the team in two years' time. Curtis Cup is the biggest team match you'll play. It's such an honour to represent Great Britain and Ireland, and I hope I'm in contention for that selection.
Q. Mary, are you staying on as captain?
MARY McKENNA: I have to wait until I'm asked. My contract or whatever you want to call it was for Vagliano Trophyand for Curtis Cup, so I obviously don't know.
Q. If you are asked, would you stay on?
MARY McKENNA: I don't know.
Q. Can Sal;ly tell us about your knee problem and what happens next with that? Was there any point where you were a doubt fitness‑wise to play this week?
SALLY WATSON: About two months ago now, I had a slight hiccup, and I actually had to go in for an arthroscopy because I couldn't straighten my knee, and if I would have had the surgery I wouldn't have been able to play (in the Curtis Cup).
But with the help of the Scottish Institute of Sport, I was able to come home from America straight away, and I got that dealt with.
I worked really hard over the next two months, really, six weeks, to get myself prepared because I knew that if I didn't work hard then I wasn't going to be able to go and play.
I'm actually going to have knee surgery this month, just because I feel like it's just getting to the point where my knee, it's a bit of unreliability, and I don't want to get into a situation later in life where I'm playing in a big tournament and my knee just kind of gives way and then I have to pull out.
As I get older and every year that passes, the tournaments do get bigger and bigger and more important for me, so I'm going to get the knee surgery done now rather than later, and then I have one more year in Florida (student at David Leadbetter Golf Academy) and hopefully I can just make the most of that year.
I'll be able to work even harder than I have in the past two years and hopefully come out next summer and just play the best I can.
This experience, though, it's just ‑‑ it's the pinnacle of amateur golf. I was going to try and do everything I could to play, and I'm just glad that I did play and I had that experience. It is a week and it is a tournament which I will remember forever.
Q. Which knee is it?
SALLY WATSON: It's my right knee, my cruciate ligament. I used to play basketball. I played for under‑16 Scotland basketball when I was 12. I came back ‑‑ I lived in California for three years, and basketball was what I wanted to do with my life. Unfortunately God had other plans for me. I injured my knee and I couldn't get to the same level.
But if it hadn't have been for that injury, I probably wouldn't be in this Curtis Cup and in this position right now, so I'm kind of glad it did happen.
Q. When are you actually going to get the surgery?
SALLY WATSON: On Wednesday.
Press Officer STEWART McDOUGALL: Mary, Sally and Krystle, thank you very much.
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Sally has already been named in the Scotland squad for the European girls' team championship at Murcar Links from July 8 to 12.
Rebecca Wilson (Monifieth) is the first reserve.
Turning pro not on the immediate
horizon for Sally and Krystle
Q: And the girls, do you see yourselves being on the team in two years?
SALLY WATSON: Well, I'm still going to be amateur, so hopefully my game will continue to improve over the next two years. I think now that I have been on a Curtis Cup team and I have lost, it's just going to be wanting revenge even more, wanting to win even more.
Hopefully having that little bit more experience in the Curtis Cup and knowing a little bit more about what to expect, and hopefully we can all play well next time and come out on top.
But I think having this experience has really helped my game and has helped just develop me as a golfer, and I think everyone would just kind of thank the LGU for giving us this opportunity, because it is really a once in a lifetime opportunity.
KRYSTLE CAITHNESS: Yeah, I'm going to stay amateur, also, and I hope to make the team in two years' time. Curtis Cup is the biggest team match you'll play. It's such an honour to represent Great Britain and Ireland, and I hope I'm in contention for that selection.
Q. Mary, are you staying on as captain?
MARY McKENNA: I have to wait until I'm asked. My contract or whatever you want to call it was for Vagliano Trophyand for Curtis Cup, so I obviously don't know.
Q. If you are asked, would you stay on?
MARY McKENNA: I don't know.
Q. Can Sal;ly tell us about your knee problem and what happens next with that? Was there any point where you were a doubt fitness‑wise to play this week?
SALLY WATSON: About two months ago now, I had a slight hiccup, and I actually had to go in for an arthroscopy because I couldn't straighten my knee, and if I would have had the surgery I wouldn't have been able to play (in the Curtis Cup).
But with the help of the Scottish Institute of Sport, I was able to come home from America straight away, and I got that dealt with.
I worked really hard over the next two months, really, six weeks, to get myself prepared because I knew that if I didn't work hard then I wasn't going to be able to go and play.
I'm actually going to have knee surgery this month, just because I feel like it's just getting to the point where my knee, it's a bit of unreliability, and I don't want to get into a situation later in life where I'm playing in a big tournament and my knee just kind of gives way and then I have to pull out.
As I get older and every year that passes, the tournaments do get bigger and bigger and more important for me, so I'm going to get the knee surgery done now rather than later, and then I have one more year in Florida (student at David Leadbetter Golf Academy) and hopefully I can just make the most of that year.
I'll be able to work even harder than I have in the past two years and hopefully come out next summer and just play the best I can.
This experience, though, it's just ‑‑ it's the pinnacle of amateur golf. I was going to try and do everything I could to play, and I'm just glad that I did play and I had that experience. It is a week and it is a tournament which I will remember forever.
Q. Which knee is it?
SALLY WATSON: It's my right knee, my cruciate ligament. I used to play basketball. I played for under‑16 Scotland basketball when I was 12. I came back ‑‑ I lived in California for three years, and basketball was what I wanted to do with my life. Unfortunately God had other plans for me. I injured my knee and I couldn't get to the same level.
But if it hadn't have been for that injury, I probably wouldn't be in this Curtis Cup and in this position right now, so I'm kind of glad it did happen.
Q. When are you actually going to get the surgery?
SALLY WATSON: On Wednesday.
Press Officer STEWART McDOUGALL: Mary, Sally and Krystle, thank you very much.
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