Top 3 finish for Yes! Golf on the LET
A celebrated trifecta for Yes! Golf down under this weekend, as the Australian Women’s Open produced three Yes! Putter users – in 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.
Laura Davies won her second Aussie Open (the first was in 2004 at Concord Golf Club) She closed on a four-round total of seven-under-par, one stroke ahead of Spain’s Tania Elosegui. Another Englander, Mel Reid from Derby, came tied third.
Davies was 11 shots behind the lead going into the weekend after opening rounds of 74 and 76 but she made a tremendous charge up the leader board with a six-under 67 on Saturday.
According to an LET reporter at the Metropolitan Golf Club in Melbourne it was a “monster Eagle putt” right from the front of the green on the par 5 14th hole that helped give her a 2-stroke advantage with three holes left to play in the final round. It puts Davies at the top of the LET money list.
It was the previous week at the Ladies’ Masters that Ms Davies approached Yes! Golf Australia rep Greg Tucker to have her existing Yes! Valerie putter adjusted – the one with the distinctive Liverpool FC grip – and picked up a Donna Putter, the scandalously good blade / mallet hybrid launched last year, her response was “this is the one” She put it straight in the bag for the 2nd round of the Ladies’ Masters and it clearly paid dividends. A win the following week, Aussie Women’s Open Champion.
Melissa Reid also took up a Yes! Putter at the Masters – a custom-fitted Callie, one of the most popular putter models Yes! Golf has ever produced.
An exceptionally good day’s work for the Yes! Australia team was rounded off with one of the best putter counts ever recorded in the country, coming first by a healthy margin of 20% with 44 putters in play. In all, 8 of the top 25 places in the tournament went to players with C-Groove technology in the bag.
About C-Groove Technology
The C-Groove putter has concentric grooves machined into its face at two exacting angles. When the apex of the grooves strikes a golf ball, says the manufacturer, the ball is held onto the face of the putter for a fraction of a second longer than is possible with a smooth-faced putter. This ‘dwell time’ helps to improve the roll characteristics of the ball, by lifting it out of its resting place while simultaneously causing the optimum topspin on the ball almost immediately. This rolling action starting so early in the roll of the ball toward the cup reduces skid and deviation, and this combination makes for consistently more accurate putting.