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ANZ Ladies Masters - Royal Pines Resort - Lisa Hall Wins

February 11th, 2008 Subscribe To Our Feed

Lisa Hall has won the Australia ANZ Ladies Masters at the Royal Pines Resort, in Queensland with a superb round of six under par 66 to take the tournament by one shot from Hyun-Ju Shin. Hall has with this win now qualified to play in the HSBC Champions tournament being played this month in Singapore.

Hall came from one stroke behind the overnight leaders - defending champion Karrie Webb, Hyun Ju Shin and Tamie Durden. With good course management and some high quality shots she posted a winning total of 13 under par, 203.

The tournament had been cut to 3 rounds because of heavy rain and flooding on the first day.Hall had posted her score, and could only watch and hope for a play-off as Shin approached the 18th green tied with a putt to win. Shin left her birdie putt 4 feet short, and missed the par putt, so handing the title to Hall.

“It was shocking,” said the 40-year-old Hall, who now lives in West Palm Beach, Florida with her husband David “It wasn’t shocking in that she didn’t make it because in golf anything can happen but at that point it was the realization that I had won.”

“I certainly thought I’d be in a play-off. In golf all sorts of things can happen so I was on the lucky end of it today I think. I was quite relieved that it didn’t go in.”

Shin who has won twice on the LPGA of Japan took second place with a 12 under par total. An interpreter translated “Over the 3 days I never missed a short putt, but there was so much pressure it was a bad stroke. I really wanted a victory, but I’m happy to be second.”

It was a good tournament for Englands Felicity Johnson who shot the best round with a 7 under par 65 to finish with a share of third with Louise Stahle from Sweden.
Karrie Webb who was the defending champion and has previously won this event 6 times finished in 5th place on 10 under par.
She said “Obviously I’m very disappointed not to have given myself a better chance today,” said Webb. “I really struggled with my driver all week and struggled again up until the last couple of holes.”

Lisa who won on the LET in 2007, in Denmark and Northern Ireland has really turned her game around from 3 years ago when she considered quitting the game in favour of coaching believes that this title is a huge achievement. “ I think with how I played the whole day and how the end result happened I don’t think it could get much better than that,” said Hall.To shoot six under in the last round and beat Karrie Webb in Australia, it’s got to be high up there. I had two wins last year, both in play-offs and both very different. One was an eight-hole play-off and one was just one hole.”

Lisa Hall wins the ANZ Ladies Masters Championship at The Royal Pines Resort