Gol Coast hospital creating golfing champions
A NEW champion will be crowned at the Australian PGA Championship this week while one may be born less than 4km away.
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A NEW champion will be crowned at the Australian PGA Championship this week while one may be born less than 4km away.
Pindara Private Hospital, located just streets away from the course that will host the tournament for sixth straight time, has had winners of the Joe Kirkwood Cup and the children of them welcomed into the world at their facility.
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U.S. Masters Champion and 2013 Australian PGA Championship winner Adam Scott was born there while 1993 champion Ian Baker-Finch shares his own connections to the hospital.
“I lived on the Gold Coast from 1987 to 2001,” Baker-Finch said.
“My family lived at Sanctuary Cove, that was my home club and town and I even had Sanctuary Cove on my golf back when I won the (British) Open (in 1991).
“Both my daughters, Hayley (29) and Laura (27) were born at Pindara in the same room as each other.”
Golfers all around the Gold Coast hoping to start or expand their family could flock to the hospital to see if they could deliver the next champion.
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