Gabi Ruffels: THE ‘UNROOKIE’ ROOKIE

For someone who’s been playing golf seriously only eight years, Gabi Ruffels has unexpected poise as she enters her rookie LPGA Year.

WORDS KAREN HARDING

Gabi Ruffels is a very unrookie Rookie for the LPGA Tour season of 2024. By rights she should be pretty raw, given it’s only eight years since she started playing golf with any form of commitment and just six years since she enrolled at the University of Southern California on a golf scholarship. But, no, she’s not raw. At all. A lot has happened in that short time, most of it unexpected by others. But this is a player with her head firmly screwed on, her feet firmly on the ground and her eyes not on the prize but the process. A player who seemingly came from nowhere yet has met challenges at every level of her development and used them as learning opportunities to springboard to the next level. And then…

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Golf Australia (Digital) - 1 Issue, Mar 2024 - Issue 418

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