After a year out with illness popular LET player Whitney Hillier made her return at this week’s Ladies Italian Open. The Aussie opened with a round of 70 (-2) at Golf Nazionale.
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lovely to see you back and playing some good golf just explain a little bit about why you’ve been away for so long and what it’s like to return yeah I’ve had a bit of long Co it hasn’t been fun I know it’s affected everyone differently but with me I just couldn’t play anymore which was heartbreaking so it took me about n months to recover but overall a year and a half so I’ve been dealing with it for even longer and thinking I was fine but not but no I’ve had a good rest and hopefully uh it’s uh it’s stay you know I stay healthy so it’s fine but I’m uh super positive with everything and I’m so happy to be here yeah and how did you try and get your golf continuing to be at a good level when you obviously couldn’t do so much was it a case of just going out and hitting a few balls each day or did you just have to have weeks entirely off golf yeah when I finished a ramco London I literally had three months off I couldn’t hit a ball properly I was exhausted tired I went back home to us to try and catch some sun and that definitely helped me a lot but just to find the right help that was the hardest part um but I found a natural paath in Perth and she’s been amazing with me so she put me on a very tough detox which is uh not fun but it’s made me feel a lot better so that’s the main thing you paid a lot of good rounds of golf out there but how special was this one today after all what’s happened to you to come in and shoot what you’ve shot and some really good shots out there we have one on camera how what does that mean to you to show that you can still do it yeah definitely I think it’s just all mental now as well knowing that I’m healthy um it’s just a matter of you know it takes time to get stronger and and to you know get back in the game and obviously to compete but today I was just super happy and i’ got my fiance and uh two good friends of mine and one of them’s catting for me too so I’ve got a good support group with me and obviously family and friends around the world they’ve helped me a lot so yeah mentally I’m doing better and I guess for this week you want to do well but you really just want to you want to complete three rounds of golf and hit some good shots and get the feeling back I guess yeah absolutely I’ve missed it so much I’ve had a lot of time to think about it and when I’ve been at home I’ve been watching the L I’ve been so keen and you know but I’m just happy to be healthy and and back out there so yeah very happy especially in Italy I mean how good the food so well fortunately I have to tell you the Wine’s pretty good as well but oh thank you thank you but know so lovely to see you back and playing well well done yeah appreciate it thank you so much it’s good to be here
