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10/21/22, 3:03 PM

Georgie Bingham: Why I love golf | Women & Golf

My journey into golf began when I was at Sky Sports News, when I saw former sports professionals I worked with and the industry around me socialising on the golf course. Not wanting to be left out, I started playing.

I hacked around for a few years and only began to take it really seriously in 2009. I wish it was a sport I had started when I was young because I have good hand-eye co-ordination and I’m strong and athletic enough to hit.

I love that it’s the only sport where you can play with pros; I can’t have a game of tennis with Roger Federer and while Paul McGinley might fnd a round with me boring, at least we can have a game on a level feld.

I also love that it’s a sport that I’ll never be able to master.

Where do you play and what is the best part of your game? I’m a member at Aldeburgh, which is an old-school club with an amazingly large women’s section. Even in the middle of winter when it’s raining and two degrees you’ll get 25 women out on a Tuesday morning. I’ve gone from 11 to 13.9 handicap as I had this stupid idea to put woods in my bag. I’ve taken them out again…

Putting is now the best part of my game. I enjoy putting and have learnt how to read greens. Distance gets me in trouble - I just want to bomb it, so probably my course management is a weakness.

I always seem to do well on hard courses. I don’t know why. But really it’s the company that makes me like a course or not.

In 15 years of playing golf I reckon I’ve played with only two or three ******** and that includes plenty of corporate days.

Georgie lines up with fellow celebrities at the Legends Tour fnale at Constance Belle Mare Plage, Mauritius, where she was tied ffth

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