Dame Laura Davies has made 43 consecutive AIG Girls’s Open appearances and received the occasion in 1986, earlier than it was labeled as a serious, Englishwoman withdrew by means of damage mid-round at Walton Heath; Watch the AIG Girls’s Open dwell this week on Sky Sports activities Golf
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Dame Laura Davies stays hopeful of signing off her record-breaking AIG Girls’s Open profession at St Andrews in 2024 after being compelled to withdraw from this yr’s contest by means of damage.
{The golfing} legend, who stated pre-tournament that her forty third consecutive AIG Girls’s Open “may be my final one”, solely accomplished six holes of her opening spherical at Walton Heath earlier than being compelled to tug out with a wrist damage.
Previous winners of the occasion aged 60 or beneath obtain an exemption to play annually, with Davies – who received the occasion in 1986 earlier than it grew to become recognised as a serious – turning 60 in October and remaining eligible to compete within the 2024 version at St Andrews.
Dame Laura Davies is but to decide to competing on the AIG Girls’s Open subsequent summer time
Davies has solely performed a restricted schedule in latest seasons and intends to reduce additional over the yr forward, with the four-time main winner set to determine nearer the time whether or not she’s going to lengthen her streak of AIG Girls’s Open appearances on the House of Golf.
“I am most likely not going to play any extra common tour occasions,” Davies informed Sky Sports activities. “I’ll be taking part in some seniors tour occasions subsequent yr after which, if I really feel my sport is nice sufficient, I’ll have a go at St Andrews.
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“It is my favorite golf course on the planet so could not be higher, however I am not going to go there if I am taking part in actually horrible golf.
“Hopefully the senior occasions I play in will likely be sufficient to have some type of sport stepping into.”
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Highlights of the primary spherical of the AIG Girls’s Open from Walton Heath.
Davies was 9 over for her spherical after 4 bogeys, a double bogey and a triple-bogey over the primary six holes, with the Englishwoman calling time on her spherical after an errant drive on the seventh.
“I simply stored hitting it within the deep tough and I went for one too many,” Davies defined. “I had been type of hacking my means down the primary three or 4 holes after which acquired to 6 and it was a very unhealthy lie within the brambles.
“I went for it after I most likely ought to’ve taken a drop and I simply felt one thing within the wrist pop. On the tee shot on seven I felt it once more and I assumed ‘are you aware what, I am means over par, I am getting in everybody’s means and it actually hurts’, so I referred to as for a ruling.
“The physician has a take a look at it and stated it was a rumbling tendon, which I do not suppose I’ve had earlier than! I do not suppose I might have performed at present, so I believe it was the correct determination.
“It is disappointing however generally you have to know when it is getting near the top.”
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