Henrietta Zuel can be Britains Tiger Woods
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In a family home near Yeovil, a young girl walks past the television on a
Sunday evening and her eyes light upon a screen of bright pink azaleas.
Drawn in by the pretty flowers, she ends up watching the Masters. By the
time that Jos%26eacute; Mar%26iacute;a Olaz%26aacute;bal pulls on the green jacket, she is hooked. %26ldquo;I
want to be a professional golfer, she tells her mum and stepfather.
Henrietta Brockway is 9 years old.
The parents never expect to hear golf mentioned again, but, eight months
later, their daughter demands her first set of clubs for Christmas. Within a
couple of years she is down to a single-figure handicap and her stepfather
has to erect an outdoor light in the garden so she can practise all hours on
winter evenings, filming herself with a camcorder.
At the age of 17, she wins the Girls’ British Open Amateur Championship. Next
week brings her first professional tournament. Nine years almost to the day
since she first gazed at the pink of the Augusta National on television, she
is about to achieve her childhood dream of playing professional golf.
Now going by the name of Henrietta Zuel - she recently switched to her
mother’s maiden name after her parents’ divorce - %26ldquo;Henni hopes the Spanish
Open will be the first step on the path to becoming the world’s leading
female golfer. She has not stinted in her preparation, with Nick Faldo and
David Beckham among her guiding forces.
