'I had no idea what golf was except for the movie Happy Gilmore,' says 27-year-old Skye Lampton. Now she's the first Aboriginal woman to represent the Northern Territory at the Australian Amateurs. Read more:
“I came from a softball background, so, you know, I was holding it up like this,” she says, clasping her hands together up above the right side of her head, “like baseball or softball, so it was funny.”
“It's quite a small ball to be able to hit with a big swing and she's just naturally got that skill, and she can hit it a country mile.”In amateur competitions, golfers calculate a handicap by averaging scores from some of their most recent rounds. The average handicap for women is just under 27, according to Golf Australia, but after just three years of playing regular games, Lampton’s hovers between two and three.
“There's been about five other females that have gone to the Australian amateurs from the Northern Territory, but Skye is the first female Aboriginal person to represent the NT,” Griesbach says.The 2022 NT Men's & Women's Foursomes Championships in Alice Springs.Taking out the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Championships in Perth in November was Lampton’s first game outside of the Territory.
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