Hannah Green first Australian to win national open in 12 years
Hannah Green – image Australian Golf Media
29-year-old West Australian Hannah Green today became the first Australian in 12 years to claim the Women’s Australian Open, a one-shot victory over Queensland’s Cassie Porter and France’s Agathe Laisne, confirming the favouritism she carried into the week and for much of the event as it unfolded.
Green has won seven titles on the LPGS Tour, including her major championship breakthrough at the KPMG PGA Championship in 2019, but this week’s victory in her own national open must rank very highly for her amongst those titles.
Green began the final day with a one-shot lead over Argentine Magdalena Simmermacher, but the South American took the lead with birdies at the 2nd and 3rd holes before Green regained the outright lead when she birdied the 5th to lead by one over Simmermacher.
By the turn, Green led by two, and it appeared her greater experience would allow her to go on and win the event, given she was essentially in a class of her own among the contenders in terms of world ranking.
Then however came challenges from Laisne and Porter, Porter having begun her final round one hour ahead of the final group but 23 year old Porter, now in her second season as an LPGA Tour player, was putting together a simply stunning final round, playing her first 11 holes in 7 under and after beginning the day nine off the lead she was now just three behind Green
Porter’s amazing final round surge continued with further birdies at the 13th, 14th, and 16th hole,s and when she signed for a round of 62, she was just one behind Green and Laisne and headed for the clubhouse to await her fate.
Green broke the deadlock between her and Laisne when she holed from 14 feet behind the hole at the 16th to move one ahead, and when both bogeyed the 17th, the difference between Green and Porter and Laisne was just one.
Green found the green some 15 feet from the hole at the last, and when she two putted for par, the title was hers while Laisne, in the group ahead, was able to save par from behind the green to share the runner-up position with Porter.
Green wins A$255,000 for her victory, while for both Porter and Laisne, their respective cheques for $127,500, the best of their careers to date, are tremendous boosts for both, Laisne adding this runner-up finish to her victory at the Women’s NSW Open.
Green gets another chance to showcase her remarkable and perhaps understated game when she tees it up at the Australian Women’s PGA Championship at Sanctuary Cove on the Gold Coast next week, while other Australians Minjee Lee, Cassie Porter, and Karis Davidson head to California to resume their 2026 LPGA Tour campaign.
Green has typically shown a lot of support for golf in Australia; this victory a deserved reward for taking time out of her LPGA Tour schedule to play at home wherever appropriate.
