When you send golf scribes scurrying for record books after your round, it’s invariably a good thing.
In Hannah Reeves’ case, it’s an exceptional thing.
It will be hard to discover the definitive answer, but it’s tough to imagine that Reeves isn’t the first person to win her first two tournaments after turning professional.
And the second of these came in remarkable fashion at the Wagga Wagga Country Club today when the 23-year-old came from the clouds to win another Ford Women’s NSW Open qualifier.
Just six days after roaring home to win on debut at Mollymook, Queenslander Reeves had an eagle on her ninth hole and closed with a near-kick-in birdie on her last to card a spectacular seven-under-par 66.
On top of her opening 70, her 10-under total enabled her to scythe through the field, toppling another second-event pro in Ann Jang by a stroke.
And the shows put on by Nayeon Eum, Jordan O’Brien and Wenyung Keh in sharing third at eight under were also extremely entertaining, right down to the final putt.
Reeves, who bemoaned a cold putter on day one, began the final round four shots off the pace, and still hadn’t impacted the leaderboard until she strode to her ninth hole (normally the par-four 17th at WWCC).
“I hit a big drive, but it also got a friendly bounce that left me 61m in, and then I just hit a nice shot up, it bounced and spun a bit and went straight in the hole,” she said of the eagle that changed the event in a heartbeat.
“I felt like I hadn’t made many putts, but then I made one on the first (her 10th) and yeah, it just went from there.”
Earlier, Keh and O’Brien – the overnight three-shot joint leaders – on more than one occasion looked set to make the event a two-woman race.
But O’Brien lost her chance with a bogey on the second and a double on the third hole (her 11th and 12th), while Keh also faltered on the second and could not make a birdie after that as her driver went rogue.
Almost at that point, Eum caught fire. The Sydneysider had been going backwards fast with three late bogeys on her front nine, but then rolled in a clutch par saver on her 10th hole.
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It proved to be her turning point as she then peeled off six successive birdies and then had near misses on her final two holes.
All the while, Jang, just 18, meandered skilfully along and picked her way up the leaderboard. The New South Wales Golf Club member compiled a remarkably composed bogey-free 68, including a birdie on the last to pull within a shot of the winner and stamping herself as a player to watch.
But the day, as it had last week in Mollymook, belonged to Reeves.
Again, she didn’t know the complete picture as she played her final hole, but she nipped a sand wedge of which Tiger Woods would have been proud.
From 57m, she landed her approach 5m left of the flag, then checked it and watched in delight as it rolled down the slope to just outside gimme range.
“I didn’t know (the situation), but I felt like I might need a birdie to get the job done,” she said.
“So yeah, I was pretty happy with that one and really happy that it worked out again (overall).”
The headaches have barely subsided from her family’s post-Mollymook party, but she said the corks might pop again in her home base at Stanthorpe and around the Brisbane Golf Club.
“Yeah, maybe!” she joked.
“It’s obviously great (to have won two in a row), but I’m just playing my game and having faith in everything we’ve been working on, and I’m really happy it’s paying off.”
With their spectacular performances this week, Ann Jang and Nayeon Eum secured their spots in the 2026 Ford Women’s NSW Open at Wollongong Golf Club.
