Hannah Green rewarded for her support of Australian golf
The Women’s Australian PGA Champion with Australia’s greatest ever female golfer, Karrie Webb
29-year-old Perth golfer Hannah Green has been rewarded for not only her outstanding golf but also her commitment to the support of Australian women’s golf with her third consecutive victory in four starts in 2026.
Green’s four-shot victory over Germany’s Alexandra Fosterling and South Africa’s Casandra Alexander brought to a close a month where she has contended in nearly every one of her 20 rounds in 2026.
While the financial reward for her victory today (A$90,000) pales in comparison to the US$450,000 she won in Singapore in late February, it is likely that she adding yet another Australian title to the Women’s Australian Open she won last week in Adelaide provides a great deal of satisfaction.
Green would no doubt have had the option to play the LPGA Tour event in California this week, where the first prize was again US$450,000, but she has always shown a tendency to support the game here, and so the event benefited greatly from her presence as the world number 7.
The win this week is unlikely to impact her current ranking but she will head back to the US tomorrow to begin her 2026 campaign in that country full of the confidence that the three wins will no doubt bring, and there is every reason to believe her current ranking will rise even higher over the next few months.
Green began the final round two ahead of Swiss golfer Vanessa Knecht and Alexander, and three birdies in her opening four holes threatened to blow the tournament apart. Then came two consecutive bogeys at the 5th and 6th holes, but although it gave her chasers a glimpse of hope, Green birdied the 9th to be out in 2 under 35 and hardly put a foot wrong as she cruised to her four-shot win.
“I knew that my game was all going to be good for the season early on, but I didn’t really imagine having three wins this early in the season,” said Green.
“I think I actually said to Jaryd (husband and interim caddie) before Singapore that I hope I have a win this year, and obviously now I’ve won three times. Obviously, I’m on such a high right now, and I know golf can go the other way.
“So it’s going to be really hard when I don’t have a winning tournament. So I think I just have to stay patient. I think that will be the next thing. I’m glad that I have a week off to kind of recoup and get ready for when I go back to the States and just get myself back down to level and not on such a high so that I can continue to perform like I am.
“I really think the win in Singapore and Adelaide has helped with my nerves, which obviously really helps when I am going to be in contention hopefully this year. So I think I’ve played well on some tough courses and I’ve also been able to play well on courses where you have to make a lot of early. So that’s nice to have the variety of both of those.
“But the major championships are definitely the events that I’m going to be trying to peak for. And so hopefully with how I’ve kind of laid out my schedule, I haven’t given myself too many tournaments before that to hopefully not tire myself out. So just little things like that in preparation, hopefully, are what can give me my best performance this year. But I think obviously I’m in a really good headspace now. So I think that’s definitely going to help.”
The round of the day on Sunday came from yet another Perth golfer, Maddison Hinson Tolchard, whose 5 under 66 saw her jump 20 places to a share of 9th.
The next best of the Australasians after Green was New Zealand’s Amelia Garvey, who shared 5th place.
