The accolades just keep coming for Hannah Green after the Perth golfer was awarded the Greg Norman Medal at the 2024 PGA of Australia Awards last night.
More than 350 guests attended the awards ceremony at Brisbane City Hall, with the Greg Norman Medal – presented annually to the player judged to be the best professional Australian golfer on the world stage – one of 10 awards presented throughout the evening.
It took just two starts for Green to get her stellar year up and running, storming home to win the LPGA Tour’s HSBC Women’s World Championship in Thailand in March.
She staged a successful defence of her JM Eagle LA Championship crown in April and notched up a wire-to-wire win at the BMW Ladies Championship in Korea last month for her third LPGA win of the year – and sixth of her career.
The Mount Lawley golfer also represented Australia in the Women’s Olympic Golf tournament, finishing fifth, a stroke outside the medals, and climbed to a career-high No.5 in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Ranking.
She finished the LPGA Tour season seventh in the rankings – comfortably beating her previous best of 18th, which she achieved in 2022.
Having previously won the Greg Norman Medal in 2019 when she had two wins – including the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship – Green was honoured to once again receive Australian golf’s highest accolade.
“It has undoubtedly been one of the best years of my career and to cap it with a second Greg Norman Medal makes it all the more special,” said Green, who was unable to attend the PGA Awards as she is playing the season-ending LPGA event in Florida this week.
“Any year in which you have a win is a good year, so to have three in the one season is very satisfying – and I’d love to finish off with another one at the ISPS HANDA Australian Open next week.
“I would like to thank everyone in my team, my husband Jarryd, my family and friends for their support this year. I feel like I have taken a major step forward in 2024 and hope that I can finish off the year well and take that into 2025 and beyond.”
Ritchie Smith picked up the High Performance Coach of the Year Award
On hand to accept the Greg Norman Medal on Green’s behalf was her coach, Ritchie Smith, who himself was named PGA National Coach of the Year – High Performance. It is a second national win for Smith, who also received the High Performance gong in 2019.
Amongst the other winners were Kazuma Kobori (Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia Player of the Year); Cassie Porter (WPGA Tour of Australasia Player of the Year) and Andre Stolz (Legends Tour Player of the Year).
