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Golf - 20. February 2019.

Previews for Pacific Bay Resort Australian Ladies Classic -Bonville

LET HEADS TO BONVILLE

This week the Coffs Coast will once again welcome a league of the world’s best female golfers to compete in the 2019 Pacific Bay Resort Australian Ladies Classic Bonville, presented by Geoff King Motors. The event, which is co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour and the ALPG, gets under way from Thursday and will be broadcast LIVE to over 65 countries across the globe on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th February. 



Flags from at least 31 countries will be flying high at Bonville Golf Resort in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales. There are 33 Australians in the field of 144, followed by 15 Swedish competitors and 12 Englishwomen. 

The Netherlands’ lone representative Anne Van Dam is the highest ranked, sitting at number 78 on the Rolex Rankings and she will be making her debut at Bonville. Van Dam is a three-time winner on the Ladies European Tour, including two wins in Spain late last year at the Estrella Damm Ladies Open and the Andalucia Costa del Sol Open De Espana.
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KEMP RIDING WAVE OF MOMENTUM

Australian Sarah Kemp is gunning for more success on home turf after earning a share of second and a tie for 10th in the Vic Open and Australian Open respectively over the last fortnight. 
The affable New South Welshwoman is back in her home State seeking a maiden Ladies European Tour title.
Kemp has three runner-up finishes on the LET, including a share of second at last year’s Lalla Meryem Cup in Morocco during a brilliant 2018 season, which saw her finish fifth on the order of merit, but two top 10 finishes in her homeland to start the 2019 season have given her a platform to build on and the 33-year-old is now looking to kick on further.
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RISING STARS SET TO LIGHT UP COURSE
European rookies Linnea Ström and Esther Henseleit met up on the Jetty at Coffs Harbour to watch the sunrise over Muttonbird Island on Wednesday ahead of their Ladies European Tour debuts in the Pacific Bay Resort Australian Ladies Classic – Bonville.
Sweden’s Ström, who finished second at Lalla Aicha Tour School in December and is one of the great hopes of European women’s golf, will start her LET career on Thursday morning, while Germany’s Henseleit, who finished third at tour school, will tee off her season in the afternoon.
Ström, who represented Europe in the 2013 PING Junior Solheim Cup and won a gold medal in the mixed team event at the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games, is feeling confident and has multiple LET order of merit winner Sophie Gustafson as her caddie. 
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MAGUIRE GETS ROOKIE SEASON UNDER WAY
It wasn’t a matter of if, but when Leona Maguire was going to become a professional golfer.
She first played on the Ladies European Tour half a life time ago, aged 12, in the 2007 Northern Ireland Open with her twin sister, Lisa. 
Now 24 and having completed a degree in psychology at Duke University, the Irishwoman finished fifth at tour school and is teeing up in her first event as a rookie professional this week at the Pacific Bay Resort Australian Ladies Classic – Bonville. 
It’s her first trip to Australia and it already feels familiar. She said of Bonville Golf Resort: “The course is quite nice and it’s similar to North Carolina, where I spent four years in college, which was surrounded by pine trees. The wind here could be tricky swirling round the trees, but it’s really nice. The course is in good shape.” 
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Listen to Rod Morri’s podcast with Leona on iseekgolf.com here: https://podcast.iseekgolf.com/96

PLAYERS GO TREE-TOP ZIP LINING
Anne Van Dam swung in to Coffs Harbour for the first time this week to play in the Pacific Bay Resort Australian Ladies Classic – Bonville and the three-time Ladies European Tour winner took time out from her preparations to see another side of the town, whilst zip lining from the trees.
The Netherlands’ sole representative, who won twice in Spain late last year and finished tied for third in the Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies Open, is fairly fond of heights as she comes from a family of pilots.
She was joined by fellow LET members Olivia Cowan (above left), Julia Engstrom (below), Sarah Schober and Manon De Roey and twice completed the most difficult course, which included scaling ladders, swinging on monkey bars and zip lining through the flooded gum trees.
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KANGAROOS ON THE BEACH
The Ladies European Tour players skipped breakfast to explore the beautiful scenery on the Coffs Coast ahead of the Pacific Bay Resort Australian Ladies Classic – Bonville, which tees off at Bonville Golf Resort in New South Wales on Thursday.
The golfers met a troop of kangaroos on the ‘Look at Me Now’ Headland, a part of the Moonee Beach Nature Reserve, which is a significant Aboriginal site 15km north of Coffs Harbour.
Meghan MacLaren from England, who won the Women’s New South Wales Open up the road at Coffs Harbour Golf Club last year, said: “This is one of the most beautiful places I’ve been. I love Australia but sometimes you don’t get to see the reasons that you love it. This place is 100 per cent peaceful and historic. It’s usually travel, airport, hotel and golf course, so to get out and see some sights makes you chill out a bit.”

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