Speaker 1: Lada with Boa six fighting.
Speaker 2: Hannah Green etched her name into the Wiltshire Country Club
Speaker 2: History book by successfully defending her title at the JM
Speaker 2: Eagle LA Championship presented by Plaispro and earning her fourth
Speaker 2: straight top three finish at the historic course. Will twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five be the trifecta? We'll soon find out, as
Speaker 2: Green returns as the number five ranked golfer in the world.
Speaker 2: The twenty twenty five JM Eagle LA Championship is set
Speaker 2: to take place April seventeenth through twentieth at El Cabayerro
Speaker 2: country Club in Tarzana and will also assist with LA
Speaker 2: fire relief and recovery efforts, meaning anyone affected by the
Speaker 2: Eton and Palisades fires and first responders will receive complementary admission.
Speaker 2: It's my pleasure to now welcome Hannah Green to the show.
Speaker 2: Miss Green, A pleasure to have you on the show tonight.
Speaker 3: How are you, Yeah, I'm good, Thank you, Thank you
Speaker 3: for having me.
Speaker 2: Growing up in Perth, Australia, was there a moment, Was
Speaker 2: there an incident, something which might have happened in which
Speaker 2: told you early on that golf was going to be
Speaker 2: your life's work.
Speaker 3: I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 4: I feel like I kind of started golf later and
Speaker 4: I wasn't really sure if I wanted to do it
Speaker 4: for a profession. It wasn't like a calling in a sense.
Speaker 4: Or I've heard players say, you know, when they were
Speaker 4: five years old, they knew that that's what they wanted
Speaker 4: to do, and I don't think I was like that
Speaker 4: at all. I feel like I'm kind of like a
Speaker 4: late bloomer in a sense. I went to the twenty
Speaker 4: fifteen US Women's Open, and that was kind of when
Speaker 4: I was like, Okay, I need to become a better
Speaker 4: player if I want to do this for a living.
Speaker 4: And I guess that's kind of the moment that I
Speaker 4: remember where I was like, yep, I want to do it.
Speaker 4: I really want to become a professional golfer.
Speaker 2: Did you have a personal role model or a person
Speaker 2: who's who took you aside and said, okay, kind of
Speaker 2: I see some talent in you, let's see if we
Speaker 2: can develop this. Was there a person who was real
Speaker 2: integral to your development.
Speaker 4: I guess I've been fortunate that I've worked with my
Speaker 4: swing coach since I was about thirteen years old, So gosh,
Speaker 4: fifteen years now, and I think he was kind of
Speaker 4: someone that I saw as guidance and whether he thought
Speaker 4: that I would be able to make it on the
Speaker 4: LPGA tour. And you know, my parents were a huge
Speaker 4: supporter of that as well's I decided to go with
Speaker 4: the professional route and not actually do any university study,
Speaker 4: so I guess a little bit of a risk in
Speaker 4: a sense in that way. But I also had Carie
Speaker 4: Webber as a mentor as well. She was really helpful with,
Speaker 4: you know, just telling me what tool life is like,
Speaker 4: because you know, that's a whole nother battle in its sense.
Speaker 4: Trying to play golf is hard, but you know, traveling,
Speaker 4: you know, thirty weeks of the year is also difficult.
Speaker 4: So I had a lot of people that really helped
Speaker 4: me early in my career as well.
Speaker 2: Someone like me, I can understand when you say the
Speaker 2: term like swing coach. We can, in an abstract since
Speaker 2: understand the travel and the grind. But what about the
Speaker 2: mental aspect of the game itself. Yes, you train your
Speaker 2: for the physical, you trained yourself for different situations and
Speaker 2: different lies, but what about the mental aspect?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's the toughest thing about it. I think,
Speaker 4: you know, we played a tournament in Arizona last week
Speaker 4: and think the winner was at twenty two under par,
Speaker 4: and I shot ten under par and it came about fortieth,
Speaker 4: But it was just because I didn't really part very well,
Speaker 4: and I think I was just getting frustrated that the
Speaker 4: parts weren't dropping like perhaps they work for other players.
Speaker 4: So it's definitely a mental game for sure. And you know,
Speaker 4: all of the players on the LPGA are so talented.
Speaker 4: You know, they hit it dead straight, they hit lots
Speaker 4: of greens, and at the end of the day, putting
Speaker 4: is the last thing that gets the ball into the hole.
Speaker 4: And so it's such a mentally draining sport and I
Speaker 4: don't think people understand it until they try and play
Speaker 4: golf for themselves.
Speaker 2: I understand people will have an off day on their jobs.
Speaker 2: You were talking about having an off day putting or
Speaker 2: maybe an off day driving, But what are some of
Speaker 2: the factors which may go into that, other than your
Speaker 2: mind wandering or you're not feeling your best or is
Speaker 2: it just random?
Speaker 3: It's sometimes it can be random.
Speaker 4: Sometimes you can go into a you know, your pre
Speaker 4: round warm up, hitting it great, putting it really well,
Speaker 4: and then you go out there and you get the
Speaker 4: complete opposite or the vice versa.
Speaker 3: You warm up and you're.
Speaker 4: Hitting it not really that great, not really feeling that
Speaker 4: good with your body, and then you go out and
Speaker 4: play some of the best golf of your life. And
Speaker 4: I think that's what makes golf so tricky, is you
Speaker 4: never even when you think everything's going really well, it
Speaker 4: sometimes isn't. And you know, not only are you trying
Speaker 4: to beat the course, but you're also trying to beat
Speaker 4: one hundred and forty four players to win the trophy
Speaker 4: at the end of the week. So there's so many
Speaker 4: different factors that can play into golf, and I think
Speaker 4: that's why all of us are sometimes crazy enough to
Speaker 4: do this for a litting is it's every day is
Speaker 4: a complete different challenge sometimes and I've said to other
Speaker 4: people before, I don't know if I could just play
Speaker 4: one golf course for the rest of my life. I
Speaker 4: like that every week we have a new challenge and
Speaker 4: a new golf course.
Speaker 2: You seem to be pretty adept at beating the challengers
Speaker 2: and beating the course. When it comes to the jam
Speaker 2: Eagle LA Championship presented by plath Brow, which is going
Speaker 2: to be at the El Kaba Yero Country Club in
Speaker 2: Tarzena coming up on April seventeenth.
Speaker 1: You're going for the trifecta.
Speaker 2: Why do you think that course has either been so
Speaker 2: good to you or such a good fit for that course?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess it's maybe a little bit of both.
Speaker 3: California has been really good to me.
Speaker 4: I've had some really good results, not only in this
Speaker 4: Championship but other events we've played in San Francisco and
Speaker 4: in California. So I feel like I just am in
Speaker 4: a really good move when I'm here. It sounds really silly.
Speaker 4: Sometimes it's just harder at other events to switch on
Speaker 4: like that. But yeah, I'm looking forward to the challenge.
Speaker 4: But you know, with a new course that we're playing
Speaker 4: this year, it could be different. But I hope that
Speaker 4: I don't put too much pressure on myself. I obviously
Speaker 4: would love to have a three pet, but I also
Speaker 4: want to make sure that I don't get too ahead
Speaker 4: myself and you know, put myself out of contention in
Speaker 4: the championship.
Speaker 2: Please now take me on the course. You may be
Speaker 2: in a group of four golfers and you may go
Speaker 2: through your round. Is there any type of talk is
Speaker 2: there any chat or either respectful or even trying to
Speaker 2: get in your head. Is there any type of very
Speaker 2: quiet trash talking maybe in the clubhouse where they're trying
Speaker 2: to get you off your game?
Speaker 1: Is there a game inside the game?
Speaker 4: Probably not so much at our level. You know, Australian
Speaker 4: humor is very different. I feel like we kind of
Speaker 4: take the mickey out of one another. We try and
Speaker 4: give each other. I feel like if you're friends with someone,
Speaker 4: you'll also give them a bit of crap every once
Speaker 4: in a while. So there is some banta, as we
Speaker 4: call it, off the course, but I wouldn't say there's
Speaker 4: anything ever on the course. You know, some girls will
Speaker 4: have maybe some games amongst one another, but I feel
Speaker 4: like that's kind of a rarity. Most of us kind
Speaker 4: of just stick to you know, what we know and
Speaker 4: try and play the round.
Speaker 3: And you know, people will.
Speaker 4: Talk to one another on the golf course, but it's
Speaker 4: just usually friendly chat. You know, where you're staying this week,
Speaker 4: are you playing next week? Just things like that.
Speaker 2: In my introduction I said how anyone affected by the
Speaker 2: Eaton and Palisedes fires and first responders will receive complimentary admission.
Speaker 2: I know you had a press conference some days ago,
Speaker 2: and you made an announcement as well along those lines.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did so.
Speaker 4: I guess growing up in Australia, we've faced many fires
Speaker 4: in I guess my lifetime. I've been very fortunate that
Speaker 4: it hasn't affected me personally, but you know, seeing or
Speaker 4: hearing the stories, I guess of the destruction that it
Speaker 4: still has caused to.
Speaker 3: A lot of families.
Speaker 4: I think everyone kind of has not really maybe spoken
Speaker 4: up about it since the fires have obviously been burnt out.
Speaker 4: But I pledged to, you know, donate five hundred dollars
Speaker 4: for every birdy that I make throughout the tournament week
Speaker 4: here at elkab And so I haven't actually seen the
Speaker 4: golf course and I do hope that I can make
Speaker 4: one hundred birdies for the week, but yeah, I hope
Speaker 4: that I can, you know, somehow give back to the
Speaker 4: California community.
Speaker 2: What type of greens do you prefer? What type of
Speaker 2: fairways do you prefer? Is there anything that you're looking
Speaker 2: for or hoping for? When can you step on elkaba Ara?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: So I heard that they did a renovation about four
Speaker 4: years ago, and so they've changed to bent greens. This
Speaker 4: is what I've grown up in Australia, so I'm grateful
Speaker 4: for that because typically in California there's a lot of
Speaker 4: polana greens which can prove quite difficult in the afternoon conditions.
Speaker 4: So I'm just intrigued to see what the course is like.
Speaker 4: I've heard it's obviously a really difficult course, a very
Speaker 4: good championship venue.
Speaker 3: So we actually played well.
Speaker 4: The LPGA played back in two thousand and two to
Speaker 4: two thousand and four, so we haven't been here for
Speaker 4: some time, so that obviously there's been some changes. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to going out and see the course
Speaker 4: and yeah, just hopefully put on my best performance.
Speaker 2: Last question before I let you go, Hanna Green, I've
Speaker 2: enjoyed this conversation with you. You've been pro for the
Speaker 2: better part of I don't know, maybe seven years or so.
Speaker 2: Do you recognize yourself still getting better beyond just performing
Speaker 2: better on the course. What are your internal markers that
Speaker 2: you are improving at your craft?
Speaker 4: I would say the average tour player's career would probably
Speaker 4: be maybe around ten to thirteen years, so I guess
Speaker 4: I'm coming towards the middle to the end of mine.
Speaker 3: So I'm just wanting to.
Speaker 4: Make sure that I'm still really motivated to you know,
Speaker 4: become the best player in the world, and you know,
Speaker 4: go through all my processes and you know, I've been
Speaker 4: very fortunate to have some success, but I'm still really
Speaker 4: hungry for more and hopefully i can have my name
Speaker 4: et stron Moore trophies. But yeah, it's it's tricky. You know,
Speaker 4: the level of play has changed so much in the
Speaker 4: seven years that I've been here. You know, every week
Speaker 4: it seems like someone else could win. It's Nelly obviously
Speaker 4: dominated last year and she won I think seven at tournaments,
Speaker 4: but I don't really know if that will happen this year.
Speaker 4: We've had five events so far and we've had five
Speaker 4: different winners, so it'll be interesting to see how the
Speaker 4: rest of the year goes. But yeah, it's really challenging
Speaker 4: and there's a lot of talent coming through.
Speaker 2: The twenty twenty five Jam Eagle LA Championship is set
Speaker 2: to take place April seventeenth through the twentieth that El
Speaker 2: Cabalero Country Club in Tarzana and also will assist with
Speaker 2: La fire relief and recovery efforts. As you've heard, anyone
Speaker 2: affected by the Eaton and Palisades fires and first responders
Speaker 2: will receive complementary admission.
Speaker 1: Hannah Green twice defending champion.
Speaker 2: Thank you for coming on the show tonight and we
Speaker 2: wish you nothing but success.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you so much for having me.
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