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Synopsis:

'Young gifted and black: Briton fits the image of modern star to a tee'. Henrietta Zuel can be Britain's Tiger Woods. 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 José María Olazábal pulls on the green jacket, she is hooked. “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.

Publish date:

8 April 2008

Author:

Matt Dickinson

Source:

The Times

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