KirkwoodGolf: LYDIA KO (14) v BRENNA ELLIOTT FOR AUSSIE WOMEN'S AM TITLE

Saturday, January 21, 2012

LYDIA KO (14) v BRENNA ELLIOTT FOR AUSSIE WOMEN'S AM TITLE




Kingston Heath member Breanna Elliott (Victoria) will take on World No 1 female amateur golfer 14-year-old Lydia Ko (New Zealand), pictured right, in the final of the Australian women's amateur championship at Woodlands Golf Club, Melbourne on Sunday.
Elliott, a former Lake Macquarie women's amateur champion, beat West Australian Whitney Hillier 5 and 4 to seal her place in the final.
Ko joins her in the final after beating last year’s runner up, Minjee Lee (West Australia) 6 and 4 in fine conditions.
Should Ko win, she would be the first New Zealander since Jan Higgins in 1989 to win the Australian women's amateur title. The last international player to win was England's Julie Hall in 1995.
Elliott would follow in the footsteps of the last Victorian champion, Stacey Keating, who won the title in 2010. The winner earns an exemption into next month’s LPGA Tour season-opening ISPS Handa Women’s Australian Open at Royal Melbourne Golf Club.
The 36 hole final will be held on Sunday.

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