RISING TO THE CHALLENGE

It’s not very often you get the chance to compete in a professional golf event, so I could hardly believe it when I was offered the opportunity to play in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour. This unique tournament made its debut at the Centurion Club in July, with 36 teams of four comprising three professionals and one amateur. The huge $1m purse was split into $800,000 for the team prize and $200,000 for the individual prize.

I was over the moon to find out I would be on Team Hewson with captain Alice Hewson, who only a couple of weeks prior had finished as the leading female at the Scandinavian Mixed. Alice only turned pro at the start of 2020 after attending Clemson University in South Carolina, and won her first event at the South African Women’s