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Jess Jonassen\u2019s reputation as one of world cricket\u2019s best female all-rounders may soon have an added status.<\/p>\n

The former junior golf champion who competed at Greg Norman Junior Masters\u2019 events has recently joined The Brisbane Golf Club and has set her sights on a single-figure handicap, hopefully one day to be playing off a mark as low as five.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough I totally realise my cricket commitments are not going to allow me to play competitive golf as much as I would like, the long-term goal is to get down to a low single-figure mark,\u201d said the 28-year-old Rockhampton-born law graduate.<\/p>\n

\u201cCurrently, during our off-season, I\u2019m trying to play at least once a week. And while I am still in the process of attaining my handicap, I\u2019m hoping it will be around the 11-15 mark.\u201d<\/p>\n

While competitive golf is nothing new to the Australian all-rounder who has made 156 appearances in the green and gold, she has not been a serious golfer since she left Rockhampton in 2010 to further her cricket career – and her studies – in Brisbane. Back then she was a member of two clubs, Rockhampton Golf Club and Capricorn Country Club, and can lay claim to once playing in the same event as Jason Day and being coached by Rachel Hetherington and Robert Allenby. The lowest handicap she reached as a junior was 11.<\/p>\n

Now, a decade later, the golfing bug has again bitten, thanks mainly to cricket coaches Ryan Harris and Ash Noffke.<\/p>\n

\u201cNoffers (Noffke) and I are coach and captain, respectively, of the Brisbane Heat Women\u2019s team and he likes to have our coach-captain meetings on the golf course,\u201d Jess explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd Ryan, who is also a member at Brisbane, was on the coaching staff during a recent tour and he was actually the catalyst for me joining his club. Our Australian coach Matthew Mott and a few of the girls, particularly Alyssa Healy and Ash Gardner, are keen golfers, so I thought it was time I took it a little more seriously and secured myself a proper handicap.\u201d<\/p>\n

And why The Brisbane Golf Club?<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy not?\u201d said Jess.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time I played there before joining, I marvelled at the condition of the course, the brilliant greens and the friendliness of everyone. Brisbane Golf Club has a wonderful history as well as a beautiful Queenslander-style clubhouse, and any club that has hosted a Queensland Open has to be pretty special.\u201d<\/p>\n

The left-arm orthodox<\/a>\u00a0bowling\u00a0all-rounder<\/a> has been a member of the\u00a0national women’s team<\/a>\u00a0since 2012 and in 2019 became just the fourth woman to take 100\u00a0One Day International<\/a>\u00a0wickets for Australia. She has also been a member of teams to have won four\u00a0ICC T20 World Cups<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jess is also the current\u00a0captain<\/a>\u00a0of both the\u00a0Queensland Fire<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0Women’s National Cricket League<\/a>\u00a0and Brisbane Heat<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0Women’s Big Bash<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And with a massive season ahead \u2013 a tour of Australia by India, an Ashes Test against England and the T20 World Cup in New Zealand \u2013 she concedes golf may again have to take a back seat.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut rest assured, my golf clubs will go wherever I go, and whenever the opportunity arises, I will be playing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

And, hopefully, playing off a single-figure handicap. \u2013 TONY DURKIN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jess Jonassen\u2019s reputation as one of world cricket\u2019s best female all-rounders may soon have an added status.\n<\/p>\n

The former junior golf champion who competed at Greg Norman Junior Masters\u2019 events has recently joined The Brisbane Golf Club and has set her sights on a…<\/p>\n

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