Examentrainers

Golf star of 11 whose driving ambition is to win like
Tiger Woods

		AT the age of 11, many girls have		35		competition, the adrenaline buzz of
		their sights set on being a pop				winning and beating the boys,’ she said.
		star, model or air hostess.				Heni, as she is known, also shines at
		Not Henrietta (Heni) Brockway - she				hockey and gains top marks for her
5		wants to be the female version of Tiger				school work.
		Woods. And she has already gone a		40		She started playing golf at the age of
		remarkably long way towards achieving				five, taught by her enthusiast father Ian -
		her ambition.				but now she has completely outclassed
		Within two years she has cut her				him. He plays off a comparatively weak
10		handicap¹ from the starting level of 45 to				handicap of 13. Mr Brockway, 43, who
		five, the lowest in England among girls		45		owns a building company, said:
		her age. She has won a string of				‘Henrietta is an exceptional talent. Some
		tournaments and has been selected for				people say we should put the brakes on
		elite training with the English Ladies’				for several years, but how can you stop a
15		Golf Association. But she most tries to				child who has set herself an ambition?’
		imitate her billionaire hero Tiger Woods		50		Heni’s coach Sarah Claridge, 31, of
		- the first golfer to hold all four major				the Kendleshire Golf Club, near Bristol,
		professional championships at once - in				said: ‘She is definitely the best player of
		her dedicated approach to improving her				her age I’ve ever seen. She has amazing
20		technique and fitness.				determination to excel, whatever it takes,
		Henrietta, of Mere, Wiltshire, gets up		55		and has already told me she wants to be
		at 6.30am every day, although it is hard,				the best in the world.’
		and spends an hour in the gym. Then				Heni has her future all mapped out.
		she’ll pore over the video of her previous				She hopes to turn professional by 18 and
25		day’s practice sessions or match play.				go to university at St Andrews - the
		She does her homework during morning		60		home of golf. She then wants to gain
		and lunch break at Gillingham School in				experience on the European tour, before
		Dorset so she can practise for several				playing in America.
		hours later in the day on the family’s				For the time being, though, golf is a
30		£4,500 putting green, driving net and				family affair. Heni’s Mauritian mother
		bunker.		65		Georgina, 32, took up the sport three
		She has outstripped the 89 other				years ago and her brother Aaron, 10,
		juniors at her golf club, Yeovil, most of				has also followed in her footsteps.
		whom are older boys. ‘I like the

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andicap: a golf term. The lower the number the better you are.