In Focus: Natalie Gulbis

So just who is Natalie Gulbis?

Well, at 26 years of age, she is a leading ladies golfer on the LPGA tour.

She is viewed as the golden girl of the ladies game and is often regarded as the pin-up of the girls tour.

She is sometimes compared to the tennis player Anna Kournikova, as both women have had similar impacts towards their respective sports – making it ’sexy’. 

As well as being a very handy golfer, Natalie has also posed for FHM, which caused quite a stir, leaving the USPGA not too impressed with her saucy antics. 

Gulbis on the other hand has said that she likes the attention she gets, even if it is for her appearance; and she has endorsement deals with – are you ready – TaylorMade Golf, Adidas, Canon, Raymond Weil geneve, Amstel Light, SkyCaddie, Payment Data Systems, MasterCard, Winn Golf Grips and Lake Las Vegas Resort!

Not bad if you can get it…

Anyway, let’s enjoy a few images of Natalie doing what she does best…

okay then, one more…

That should do for now!

Laura fancied herself all along!

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!

Grab yourself a birdie!

As much as we all love playing golf and watching the top stars like Tiger and Ernie, isn’t it about time the ladies shared some of the limelight?

Here are a few of the top performers from the Ladies tour…

Name: Anna Rawson
Age: 27
Born: Adelaide, South Australia
Height: 5′10″
World ranking: 296
Info: Anna Rawson’s beauty and golf ability were both apparent early in life. At 18 she was selected to the Australian national golf team and a finalist in the Australian Dolly Magazine cover contest

 

Name: Natalie Gulbis
Age: 24
Born: Sacramento, California
Height: 5′9″
World ranking: 31
Info: Literally the poster girl for sexy golfers, Gulbis has a best-selling calendar and has made FHM Magazine’s list of the 100 Sexiest Women. But is she is in danger of becoming golf’s Anna Kournikova?

 

Name: Paula Creamer
Age: 20
Born: Mountain View, California
Height: 5′9″
World ranking: 4
Info: Nicknamed “The Pink Panther” for her fondness for the most feminine of colors, Creamer has already won a fair few LPGA Tour titles and is ranked fourth in the world.

 

Name: Carin Koch
Age: 37
Born: Kungalv, Sweden
Height: 5′6″
World ranking: 98
Info: The years have been kind to Koch, the ageless veteran of this list. In 2002, she declined an offer from Playboy magazine to pose nude after an online poll dubbed her the sexiest woman on the LPGA Tour. Oh, and she also managed 13 top ten finishes that year.

 

Name: Morgan Pressel
Age: 20
Born: Tampa, Florida
Height: 5′5″
World ranking: 15
Info: Pressel turned professional in January 2006 after appealing to the LPGA to become a member as a 17-year old. LPGA rules state that members must be 18 years old. She played part-time on the tour while still attending high school until her graduation in May 2006!

 

Name: Laura Davies
Age: 45
Born: Coventry, England
Height: 5′10″
World ranking: 68
Info: Stop laughing! She is considered the most accomplished English female golfer of modern times, being the first non-American to finish at the top of the LPGA money list. She also currently has 70 professional wins under her (large) belt.