Introduction

Mianne Bagger is a touring professional golfer playing predominantly on the Ladies European Tour (LET) and also on the Australian Ladies Professional Golf tour (ALPG). This site contains information in relation to Mianne's progress on tour and also some personal information about Mianne and her life.

The 2008 Season

First event in Spain:

I have been back in Europe for just over a week now and have played the first event of the season over here, in Spain. The event was held in Castellon near Barcelona at the Panoramica course. After spending 5 months or so, re-working my swing with my coach in Perth, Austtralia, I've been quite eager to get out on tour again to play the new season.

Sporting a new putter as well, I started the week in a bit of a roller coaster fashion shooting +2 in the first round with 5 birdies and four 3 putts. The putter seemed to be working fine, as long as I was over 2m from the hole! If I wasn't holing the longer putts, I was missing the ones coming back! hhmm, not so good. I put it down to lack of familiarity with the putter and need to give it time.

Well, as the week progressed, it didn't get much better. My ball striking was good for the most part, which I was very happy with, but the putting didn't improve much. I managed to keep a tidy round together for the second round at +1, and watched as I moved up the leader board as the afternoon groups got to play the windy part of the day. I went into the weekend in =23 place and ready to play some steady golf.

Yes, well, it seems there were other plans in store for me. After a rough start, losing 3 shots in 4 holes, I managed to get back to level par for the day only to get caught by the wind at the end of the round to finish with a triple bogey on 17 and a double up the last. All that good work undone on one hole. It's a little demoralising. Well, that was until Sunday!.... With steady rain throughout the morning, I just couldn't get my game going. Ball striking was terrible and putting still hadn't improved. All I could manage were pars with a steady flow of bogies thrown in. ....and that just kept going all day long! All in all a terrible weekend and end of the tournament for me.

I sit here in the apartment I've been living in for the week, going through my weekend wondering what the hell happened, but also lacking some much needed income. For anyone that thinks professional golf is a life of luxury hotels and fancy treatment, you should try and come out and give this a go. It's hard work most of the time and if you're not lucky enough to have good sponsorship behind you (or a wealthy family I guess), life on tour can be very trying. I'm lucky that my family have always helped out where they can and I get some support from my home club in Denmark. There's also been a few generous individuals along the way who have helped making life on tour possible. Thank you to all of you.

I go back to Denmark tomorrow to spend the next 2 weeks practicing (weather permitting) and my next event will be in Turkey on the 8-11 May. Will keep you all up to date with how that goes ...and I think I'll be taking the old putter back out!! Thanks for dropping in. :)