She’s larger than life, a 50-foot woman with glistening thighs, brandishing a TaylorMade driver, on a golf-fuelled rampage through Beverly Hills – an amazon on a mission to change her sport… forever. Alright, 50 feet is a bit of an exaggeration, but we’re not making up the other stuff. Anna Rawson, 23, a native of Australia, has just turned pro and she’s got big ideas: “My goal,” she says, “is to make women’s golf huge.”

GolfPunk is here to help. When Rawson first clapped eyes on us – on the news-stand – she knew she’d found an ally. “I was, like, are you kidding me? This IS me. GolfPunk is everything I had ever dreamed golf to be – fun, young, hip and cool because that’s how it is. I was so excited.” That’s why she’s joined us here, in the middle of a road lined with palm trees, in the sun, taking a practice swing, stopping traffic. a Sport is a family vocation. Her father, Jim, was an Aussie Rules hero, a member of the legendary Glenelg side – aka the Bays – that won the 1973 Grand Finals, and her mum was a useful tennis player. Young Rawson conquered gymnastics – she was Australian champion at tyke level – then took to golf, later than most. “I only started at 13,” she says. “Tiger Woods started at two. Most Americans start at five. So it took me longer to get really good.” She broke 80 at 15 at her home club, in Adelaide. “Then the challenge was breaking par. And then,” she says, “how deep can I go?”

In 1999, Rawson was unstoppable in Australian junior golf. She won everything. The next year she moved to Los Angeles, her current home, on a fully-paid golf scholarship at the University of Southern California (USC), and helped secure for the college its first ever National Championship.

USC female sports stars are known as the Women of Troy: Rawson’s contribution was mythical. It was 2003. “It just clicked, right at the end,” she says. “Perfect timing. We led wire-to-wire: never got ahead of ourselves. It was in West Lafayette, Indiana. Rinky-dink town, nothing there – except great golf.”

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