In her brief professional career, Anna has already earned attention for both her superb game and striking appearance. The 5’10,” blond-haired, green-eyed beauty works as a fashion model when not impressing with her on-course skills, recently headlining a runway show at LA Fashion Week.
Eat GOLF! asks our newest contributor how her two very different careers came to be...
It is early morning in LA, what time do you start your day?
I normally get up pretty early, like around, I guess six or six thirty. There’s a lot of traffic in LA so if I’m up early I can beat it.
How did you get into golf and modelling? Was there any relation between the two?
I think that in the beginning they were totally separate. I won a cover girl competition in Australia when I was 16. I was already playing golf at the time, but they were two separate things that I was doing. Initially I was doing high fashion modelling in Australia to make money and playing golf separately. But now I use fashion more to get the word out about golf.
How old were you when you took up golf?
I was about thirteen, so I wasn’t that young. Depending on what you call young!
Was there any family influence?
Yes, my whole family plays, and I had a golf course at the end of the street. They didn’t want you to play on the course unless you were over thirteen, so fortunately I was able to play.
You did your college training at USC in America. What was your motivation for going there?
I’d always had a dream of going to America, and in Australia you get a lot of American TV shows and I’d always admired the place. Then I got the opportunity to go and play golf there and study at the same time. We didn’t have anything like that in Australia, so I took the chance to go there and live in the place I’d always had a fascination with. So it was like a no brainer, and I said ‘where do you sign me up?’ ‘I’m going!’.
And you choose to live in LA?
Yes, well I believe that America is the number one place to be if you want to be the best professional golfer you can be. I had a wonderful experience here during my college years, and I love Los Angeles, it’s a great town and a lot of fun. I know a lot of people here from college and I met a guy from Los Angeles and fell in love, so there’s all these kinds of things keeping me here.