The Daily Telegraph Friday 3 January 2020 *** 15 Sport Globetrotter charting journey to the summit Eyes on the prize: Charlotte Thomas Exclusive interview sees her career as a learning curve Charlotte Thomas tells what it was like, moving around James Corrigan teenage so much when I was a teenager, years in four continents but it’s a pretty good way to prepare for being a golf pro.” were the making of her Deep down, however, home will always be England. “My dad would disown me if I told him I Women wanted to play under any flag!” to watch she laughs. “My mum, Fleur, was born in New Zealand and she’s in 2020 the one who got me into golf. I A have three brothers and they are all good golfers as well. Billy was s a 26-year-old, on the bag when I finished Charlotte Thomas second at the ISPS Handa Vic does not quite fulfil Open, and that’s the best week the image of an I’ve had so far. The course was up-and-coming just across the bay from our superstar-in-waiting, family house, I just caught a ferry particularly as there are three each day.” younger Englishwomen above Thomas came sixth in her first her in the world rankings. LPGA Tour event on US soil, in Yet such has been the unusual Phoenix – banking more than path of a journey that included $100,000 (£75,000) in the her living in four continents in process – but then endured 11 her teenage years that Thomas is missed cuts in the rest of 2019. “I still, in fact, in the infancy of her look at it as a learning curve,” she career. And her first year in the says. “Being a rookie exhausts major leagues suggested you. You don’t know the courses, England’s assault on the top of the you don’t know where the locker female game may even yet room is, you don’t know where be four-pronged. registration is. And I didn’t have Certainly, no Briton has an agent, so I had to do enjoyed a better start on everything myself. It sounds like the Ladies Professional little things, but they do pile up.” Golf Association Tour, Thomas’s father, Chris, will the biggest women’s manage her this year and she is MICHAEL ZEMANEK/BPI/REX circuit by far. Having anticipating feeling a lot more graduated through the comfortable in the environment. Symetra Tour, the And in Charley Hull, Bronte Law main feeder division, and Georgia Hall, she has a trio of the Guildford girl fellow Britons to inspire her. marked her LPGA “What they’ve done has made me debut with a want to get to the top even more. stunning runner-up I watched them all in the Solheim finish. It helped that this [Cup for Europe in September] was, essentially, a home all the way.” All the way around in amateur events and then, in the and thought, ‘I have to do that.’ ” tournament – Victoria, the world that is, starting in Australian summer, she would do Tomorrow To make herself eligible for Australia. “Yeah, you could say I’ve not Singapore. “When I was 12, my dad’s work the same. Except Singapore was so wildly off the radar for the Laviai Catriona Matthew’s 2021 team, Thomas must be a member of the had the normal route,” Thomas meant we had to move there. I US college recruitment Nielsen Ladies European Tour and she says. “I started golf at 11, when we remember when our parents told programme that she went talks to will play in qualifying school in were still living in England and I me and I was in floods of tears. I unnoticed for a long time. Spain this month. was told that I was not allowed to had my friends and my golf. But we “My family made Melbourne its Ben Bloom “The Solheim has to be a big play rugby with the boys. So, I had to go and I absolutely loved it.” base and Craig was over there, too,” aim for me these next few years,” went to the range that was right Thomas still works with Craig she recalls. “I didn’t join the US she says. “And someone recently next door to the rugby pitches. McLean, the coach she met in college system until I was on my mentioned the Olympics in I was hopeless, but the pro Singapore, and together they have way to being 20. I lived in Seattle August. I’m a way off yet, but I there thought it’d be a plotted her unique course towards for four years, graduating from the should have the attitude that it challenge and I’ve never the elite. In the summers, Thomas University of Washington just might be feasible. I’ll get there looked back. It’s been golf would go back to England to play three years ago. 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