ST. ANDREWS, Scotland – Ashleigh Buhai might have gained the AIG Girls’s Open two years in the past, however the working joke is she’s not even the Buhai who has gained the celebrity from that week.
Who may neglect Buhai’s nerve-racking Sunday at Muirfield? It started with a five-shot lead, featured a closing 75 that knocked her again right into a playoff with In-Gee Chun, after which ended with a four-hole playoff triumph.
But in addition, who may neglect David Buhai? Caddying for one more participant earlier within the day, David confirmed as much as watch his spouse on pins and needles, cameras in his face all afternoon, after which he bolted onto the inexperienced after the playoff culminated, lifting Ashleigh up into the air with an enormous bear hug.
“Folks do keep in mind him greater than me,” Ashleigh mentioned Friday at St. Andrews, the place she sits 3 underneath and 5 photographs again of Nelly Korda.
There’s a shaggy dog story to that, too.
“We had been in Cincinnati airport,” Ashleigh tells it, “and it was simply after that win, and I had the trophy with me, and David loaded my golf equipment on the belt, and the man checking me in was like, ‘You look acquainted,’ to my husband, after which he noticed the golf equipment, after which he put two and two collectively. He’s like, ‘You ran on to the inexperienced! However you gained the event!’
“It was like, ‘Yeah, I’m right here.’ Then I had the trophy with me and took it out.”
South Africas Ashleigh Buhai reacts as her husband David Buhai runs onto the 18th inexperienced to have fun along with her after profitable the AIG Girls’s Open at Muirfield in Gullane, Scotland. Image date: Sunday August 7, 2022. (Picture by Jane Barlow/PA Pictures through Getty Pictures)
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She might quickly get to take out one other.
That was an unlikely thought getting into this week. Buhai’s 12 months has been devoid of a top-10 on the LPGA. Her greatest end got here in February, a T-10 on the LET’s Aramco Girls Worldwide. Extra not too long ago she has been recovering from a damaged left pinky toe, which she injured throughout the KPMG Girls’s PGA. The damage was so bothersome, that Buhai withdrew after simply three holes of the Evian, after which she performed the Olympics with a gap lower in her golf shoe.
“It’s been a extremely lengthy two months,” Buhai mentioned.
However on Friday, she regarded extra just like the participant at Muirfield. Her 3-under 69 was highlighted by eagles at Nos. 14 and 15, the place she bought up and down from behind the inexperienced and holed an 85-yard shot, respectively.
This week, David is looping for Lee-Anne Tempo, who, at 3 over, may even make the weekend. And who is aware of, by Sunday possibly David could have one other likelihood so as to add to his celeb standing.
Although if that’s the case, one would hope the bag-check highlight would totally go to a two-time Girls’s Open champion.
