It has been a glorious couple of weeks for British women’s golf, with a long awaited maiden LPGA Tour victory for Jodi Ewart Shadoff following Charley Hull’s success in Texas seven days earlier.
Ewart Shadoff’s win at the Mediheal Championship in California last Sunday was the sort of heart-warming triumph that professional golf has a happy knack of harnessing.
It was a first win in 246 attempts over a 12-year pro career for the US based Yorkshirewoman. The 34-year-old has been a major runner up at the 2017 Women’s Open and she has played three Solheim Cups, winning two.
But she has also suffered debilitating back problems, loss of form, nerve and confidence. There have been times in the not too distant past when she feared she might be finished at the top of the game.
So it is little wonder that her husband, Adam Shadoff, tweeted that he is “beyond proud” following a victory that landed a $270,000 winner’s cheque for his wife.
