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Maybe there is hope for the old game after all. Maybe there is a future out there that does not involve Saudi grubbiness and greedy players getting paid offensive sums of money for delivering bang average golf.
How perfect that it was a woman who pointed the way forward. You know, those second-rate citizens the Saudis like to subjugate and tell what they can and cannot do.
Nothing looked beyond the wondrous gifts of 22-year-old Linn Grant after she became the first woman to win on the DP World Tour with her victory in the Scandinavian Mixed in her native Sweden on Sunday.
Linn Grant's success in Sweden lifted the gloom around golf amid Saudi grubbiness
I say win, but that hardly begins to do justice to her overwhelming nine-shot triumph. ‘She’s smashed the men completely,’ was the verdict of Jamie Spence on Sky Sports.
Detractors might care to point out she played off different tees and a course hundreds of yards shorter. But it is an argument that does not get beyond first base.
If the course was that easy for the women, why was the next best female — England’s Gabriella Cowley — in tied 15th, no fewer than 14 shots behind Grant? Then there is the things that are common to both sexes. Approach play. Game management. The short game. Most importantly, the four inches between the ears.
Grant, in her rookie season on the women’s tour, was playing in just her sixth event. Among the chasing pack was a former Open champion and Sweden’s greatest male player, Henrik Stenson.
Grant became the first woman to win on the DP World Tour with her victory in the Scandinavian Mixed
Thousands turned up to see if she would be able to preserve her two-shot lead. All the circumstances pointed to her going quietly. Instead, what unfolded was an epochal round of 64 that simply took the breath away. Grant, the granddaughter of a Scottish professional who emigrated from Inverness
