Atmosphere worries Hanson

Press, 27 July 1989, Page 44

Atmosphere worries Hanson

PA Wellington Handling the atmosphere at the United States national women’s amateur golf championships will be a vital factor in New Zealander Tracey Hanson’s chances of a good result. “I’ll just have to wait and see,” she said frorm Boston yesterday of her chances in the tourna-

ment, which begins on Monday at Pinehurst, in North Carolina. “It will depend on how I handle the atmosphere. The event will be like three times the size of the New Zealand championships. My big hope is that I will be able to cope with that.” Hanson, the holder of the New Zealand strokeplay title, qualified

for Pinehurst when she shot a 75 at the Spring- < field course in Boston last Gweek. The score was i four strokes under the < cut-off mark. The 22-year-old Wellingtonian will be one of 144 competitors who will play two rounds of < strokeplay on Monday and i Tuesday, with the best 64 ' golfers going into the , matchplay on Wednesday. 1

Hanson will spend today and tomorrow driving from Boston to Pinehurst, and will practise on the course over the week-end. Hanson said she knew little about Pinehurst but expected it to be similar to the courses she had struck during her time in the United States so far. “The courses here tend to play a little longer than those in New Zealand,"