You may recognise her from ‘Grab yourself a birdie‘, but British babe Laura Davies is back to winning ways and has admitted that she would have backed herself to win the women’s Australian Open ahead of yesterday’s dramatic final round which saw her claim the title.
The 45-year-old, who was equal 41st in the field at the halfway mark of the tournament, fired rounds of 67 and 68 over the weekend to surge to victory by one shot from the Spaniard Tania Elosegui.
That 11-under-par performance over the final two rounds left her seven under overall, although Elosegui would have won the title had she parred a final hole which she double-bogeyed to miss out on the chance even of a play-off with Davies.
The Coventry-born golfer is renowned for enjoying a bet, and she revealed she would have been tempted by the odds offered on her on Sunday morning.
“Someone told me I was 16/1 and I would have said that was a generous price because I knew how well I was hitting it,” she said. “I didn’t have a bet on myself obviously but I think 16/1, if someone had said, ‘what do you think’, I would have said ‘I’d get some on’.”
Good on her, and while I obviously do not condone gambling, I too wish that I had stuck a cheeky few quid on Laura!
