IT MUST be something in the water in Mossel Bay, or perhaps it's the air, but the small southern Cape town is remarkable in that it has churned out two world-class golfers in the past five years.
Louis Oosthuizen, winner of the 2010 Open Championship and runner-up at the 2012 Masters, is a household name.
Lee-Anne Pace, Ladies European Tour 2010 order of merit winner and current money leader, is not. But she soon will be if her trajectory continues on its upward curve.
Pace, coming off her second win of the season at the Spanish Open 10 days ago, has her sights firmly set on joining South Africa's illustrious male golfers by winning a major. Possibly as soon as this weekend.
The Women's British Open, which starts at St Andrews, Scotland, tomorrow, is where Oosthuizen secured the greatest prize of his career and arguably the biggest prize in golf. Has serendipity deigned that Pace could became the second Mossel Bay winner of a major at the grand old Links?
"Wouldn't it be something to emulate Louis and win at St Andrews? I wonder what the odds are on two kids from Mossel Bay doing that?" Pace asks.
What's in the Mossel Bay water?
IT MUST be something in the water in Mossel Bay, or perhaps it's the air, but the small southern Cape town is remarkable in that it has churned out two world-class golfers in the past five years.
Louis Oosthuizen, winner of the 2010 Open Championship and runner-up at the 2012 Masters, is a household name.
Lee-Anne Pace, Ladies European Tour 2010 order of merit winner and current money leader, is not. But she soon will be if her trajectory continues on its upward curve.
Pace, coming off her second win of the season at the Spanish Open 10 days ago, has her sights firmly set on joining South Africa's illustrious male golfers by winning a major. Possibly as soon as this weekend.
The Women's British Open, which starts at St Andrews, Scotland, tomorrow, is where Oosthuizen secured the greatest prize of his career and arguably the biggest prize in golf. Has serendipity deigned that Pace could became the second Mossel Bay winner of a major at the grand old Links?
"Wouldn't it be something to emulate Louis and win at St Andrews? I wonder what the odds are on two kids from Mossel Bay doing that?" Pace asks.
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