DANIELLE, YOU'RE A CHAMPION - EVEN THOUGH YOU DIDN'T WIN!
By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Defending champion Danielle McVeigh (Royal Co Down Ladies) finished joint 17th on 224 after a closing 78 - then revealed she almost pulled out last week from the Helen Holm Scottish women's open amateur stroke-play championship over the Troon links.
"I've got both left wrist and my right ankle strapped up and I've had half a dozen physio sessions over the past week or two to try to speed up the healing process," said Danielle.
"I just wasn't really fit enough to play here at Troon this weekend but I felt it was my duty, my obligation as last year's winner to be here.
"The ankle injury is an old one I first got while playing football. It flares up every so often, especially when I play a lot of golf. The wrist is badly strained. I hurt it on the golf course, hitting the ball out of rough with the club hitting a very tough tuft of grass which was a very, very sore one. It's a bad one because it's taking a long time to get better."
So full marks to Danielle for taking all the trouble to come over from Ireland, knowing full well she wasn't fit enough to win but because she felt that defending champions should defend.
That's the great thing about golf, isn't it - it's the spirit the game's play in that lifts it above most other sports.
When Leona Maguire took three putts from six feet to let victory unexpectedly slip away on the 18th green at Royal Troon, the mother of one of her leading rivals told me: "It was so sad to see, I could have wept for her."
There was some cheer for the Irish at the conclusion of the "Helen Holm," Lisa and Leona Maguire (pictured below in that left-right order (I think!), won the International Team Salver for Ireland. The Irish won it also last year when Danielle McVeigh and Leona Maguire teamed up for victory.
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Defending champion Danielle McVeigh (Royal Co Down Ladies) finished joint 17th on 224 after a closing 78 - then revealed she almost pulled out last week from the Helen Holm Scottish women's open amateur stroke-play championship over the Troon links.
"I've got both left wrist and my right ankle strapped up and I've had half a dozen physio sessions over the past week or two to try to speed up the healing process," said Danielle.
"I just wasn't really fit enough to play here at Troon this weekend but I felt it was my duty, my obligation as last year's winner to be here.
"The ankle injury is an old one I first got while playing football. It flares up every so often, especially when I play a lot of golf. The wrist is badly strained. I hurt it on the golf course, hitting the ball out of rough with the club hitting a very tough tuft of grass which was a very, very sore one. It's a bad one because it's taking a long time to get better."
So full marks to Danielle for taking all the trouble to come over from Ireland, knowing full well she wasn't fit enough to win but because she felt that defending champions should defend.
That's the great thing about golf, isn't it - it's the spirit the game's play in that lifts it above most other sports.
When Leona Maguire took three putts from six feet to let victory unexpectedly slip away on the 18th green at Royal Troon, the mother of one of her leading rivals told me: "It was so sad to see, I could have wept for her."
There was some cheer for the Irish at the conclusion of the "Helen Holm," Lisa and Leona Maguire (pictured below in that left-right order (I think!), won the International Team Salver for Ireland. The Irish won it also last year when Danielle McVeigh and Leona Maguire teamed up for victory.
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