(Reuters) – Seven-times main champion Karrie Webb stated on Tuesday her return to the LPGA Tour this week for the primary time in two years just isn’t the beginning of a comeback but reasonably a handy likelihood to tee it up with out hitting the street.
The 47-year-old Australian lives in Boynton Beach, Florida, which implies she solely has to drive about half-hour to compete on the Gainbridge LPGA in close by Boca Raton.
“It’s not essentially a return, I don’t assume there’s any full time and even a large chunk of half time golf in me,” Webb informed reporters at Boca Rio Golf Club.
“But once you’re away from it for a very long time there’s lot of issues that you simply do miss about it. I feel it was nice, very handy that I might keep at house this week and play in a match for the primary time in a whereas, and, you understand, not really feel like the trials of getting to journey with baggage.”
A World Golf Hall of Fame member who final performed a full-time schedule on the LPGA Tour in 2017, Webb stated she by no means loved lugging her golf equipment round when on the street but does miss her fellow opponents and the banter on the vary.
Despite being a winner of 56 skilled occasions and broadly thought-about one of the profitable feminine golfers in historical past, Webb stated she has zero want to place within the effort it would take to problem the sport’s present prime gamers.
“That’s one other factor I don’t actually miss, is the grind of placing within the hours on the vary and on the apply placing inexperienced, and I feel that is why I don’t actually have the will to play a lot,” stated Webb.
“I actually don’t have the will to place the work in, and to even come near competing out right here you’ve to have the ability to put the work in to compete with these women. The normal simply will get higher and higher yearly.”
Webb can be a part of a stacked discipline this week that may function 16 of the top-25 gamers within the rankings, together with world primary and defending champion Nelly Korda.
(Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto; Editing by Toby Davis)
