For one brief, glorious moment, Caroline Wozniacki made golf interesting. The former world number one tennis player, and soon-to-be wife of Rory McIlroy, dyed her hair shocking pink and caddied for her man at a Masters event in Georgia earlier this month. How fun, how fashionable, how feminine, we swooned. But then before you could say, ‘Great banana on that bogey,’ she went and dyed it blonde again. Sigh!
This dramatic occurrence made us realise two things: that the Tiger Woods scandal was the beginning and the end of our interest in this sport; and that Caroline Wozniacki is a woman to be reckoned with. This great Dane is not only a ferocious athlete but a dream partner — not everyone would don a white boiler suit and unflattering green baseball cap to lug their boyfriend’s clubs through boiling-hot bunkers.
But Caroline is a tough cookie — as a teenager she was once disqualified from a junior tournament for verbally abusing an umpire, and she hung on to her place as world number one for 67 weeks. She’s won a shedload of matches, and a racket-bag load of cash. We can only hope she’s met her match with this Rory chap, because wonderful Woz deserves someone truly ace.
