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Rosita Van Kuilenburg
joined WGN to learn golf
at her own pace

Rosita Van Kuilenburg
When did you start playing golf?
I first swung a golf club in the mid-eighties
when I enrolled in a ‘introduction to golf
lessons’ at a driving range near Albany
Creek. The only thing I remember from
those lessons was the golf professional
telling me I was a ‘slugger’!
Following that I didn’t swing another golf
club until about four years ago whilst
visiting friends in Goondiwindi. They had
just been bitten by the golf bug and I

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thought I’d tag along just for a morning
stroll as my health wasn’t the best at the
time. Before they reached the fourth hole
I was chipping behind them and by the
fifth tee I had a driver in my hand to hit a
perfect shot and my golf addiction began.
I bought a beginners golf set the very next
weekend.
What motivate you to play golf?
I’m quite sports minded having
played different team sports including

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representative soccer. My days of three
games per week finally caught up with
me causing chronic injuries of both my
knees and hips resulting in a right hip
arthroplasty (artificial ball and socket) in
November 2009.
My rehabilitation was smooth involving
Pilates and strength training but the
desire to be outdoors playing sport was
ever present. My beginner’s golf set
had been gathering dust since I bought
them so it was time to bring them out as