Toowoomba woman puts her putting skills to the test on TV

A Toowoomba woman has put her golfing skills to the test on Channel 7’s hit TV show Holey Moley. Here’s how she got involved.

MINI golf and romance are words rarely used in the same sentence unless your Toowoomba’s Amy Morris.

Ms Morris, and a select group of other contestants, will appear on a special episode of Channel 7’s newest hit Holey Moley Australia scheduled to air next week.

Putting her golf skills to the test on a TV show was never one of the 27-year-old’s goals in 2021 but the opportunity to do so came as a welcome surprise after her father Rod sent in an application on her behalf

“I was a bit taken aback at first when I found out there was an application for me in process,” Ms Pearce said after she received a phone call from the show’s producers.

“But once I found out what the show was all about and did some research I was very excited to be a part of it.”

Ms Morris grew up with a golf club in her hands, but those skills didn’t give her any significant advantage.

“My aunty is a (golf) professional so I had a club in hand putting around the greens as a two-year-old,” she said.

“I did play a bit as a teenager but nothing really serious since then.

“My golfing ability didn’t help a whole heap, there was more obstacles than I was expecting.

“And I’m a part of the singles episode, which means I’m in a cocktail dress completing all these obstacles as if the obstacles weren’t hard enough without having a cocktail dress on.”

“But the natural ability handed down from my father and aunty helped a little on the shorter putts that were under pressure and I needed to make.”

Singles episode golfers have the chance of winning a date.

Holey Moley airs on Channel 7 at 7pm on Sundays, and 7.30pm Monday-Wednesday.