Emerging golf talent Momoka Kobori has already banked the first pay cheque of her professional career. The 21-year-old Cantabrian put her name in lights last weekend, creating history as the first female winner of a mixed field New Zealand PGA event. Kobori finished tied for first alongside Harry Bateman at the two-day 36-hole Whitford Park Pro Am in Auckland at eight-under. It was some effort from Kobori in a talented 50-player field, which included New Zealand men’s No.1 Ryan Fox, Gareth Paddison, Mark Brown, Josh Geary, and former New Zealand Eisenhower representative Daniel Hillier. READ MORE:The young female amateur mastering the men on the golf courseNZ’s best amateur women’s golfers relishing chance to mix it with the men’s prosKieran Muir wins Taranaki Open New Zealand Golf have embraced the mixed gender format on the Charles Tour circuit, which sees male and female golfers competing for the same trophy and purse – playing alongside each other. At the Whitford Park Pro-Am, Kobori was playing off the slightly shorter women’s tees, but the mixed field format aims to make the competition as fair as possible, creating a level playing field. Kobori pocketed $3500 after finishing tied for first and has already banked… Read full this story
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