Hannah Green’s new routine following the CME Group Tour Championship is to jet out immediately following play and begin the 30-hour journey home to Perth, Australia. She’ll arrive on Wednesday and then quarantine for two weeks at a hotel in Perth, getting out on Dec. 8.
Green did another quarantine in the middle of the year, skipping the Amundi Evian Championship to prepare at home for the Olympics.
“I must admit, I am pretty tired,” she said. “Even though I haven’t played as many events as usual, it is quite tough.”
What would make that hotel quarantine a little easier to endure? Leaving Florida this week with $2.5 million. She already has won $1 million for capturing the season-long Aon Risk Reward Challenge. After an opening 66, she’s currently two back of leader Jeongeun Lee6. What would she buy if she won the CME, too?
“I guess a bigger house?” she said. “I’m not too sure. Maybe even a house over here.”
Green spends her off-weeks in the U.S. in digs set up by Golf Australia and shares a care with Su Oh. There’s never a shortage of Aussie pros to practice with in Orlando, especially now with fewer trips home.
“There’s been a big sacrifice coming over here four months at a time,” she said, “and hopefully next year will be a little bit more normal, and hopefully I won’t feel so homesick.”
Buying a place of her own in the U.S., she said, would be a nice luxury to have more personal space.
Hannah Green of Australia is interviewed at Tiburon Golf Club on November 16, 2021 in Naples, Florida, after winning the AON Risk Reward Challenge. Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images
That being said, Green is grateful for all the support she’s been given by her home country. Particularly when it comes to Aussie icon Karrie Webb, who lives in South Florida and was out watching Green on Thursday at Tiburon. The last time Webb watched Green compete in person was at the KPMG Women’s PGA at Hazeltine, which Green won.
“Now that the rain is coming in,” said Green, “I’m not too sure if she’ll follow too many more holes, which I don’t blame her. Outside the ropes is hard.
“But yeah, it’s great that she’s always supporting us. There’s a few amateur golfers that are here at the moment, and she played golf with them yesterday, so she’s always giving back. She probably doesn’t realize how much of a big deal it is to those players and myself. I have to say thank you to her.”
As for the upcoming quarantine, Green said she usually works on jigsaw puzzles, watches sports and kills time on social media.
“I just would love if I had some fresh air,” she said, “but I’m not sure if that will happen in Perth.”