By: Shelia Williams
Reporter

Orlando, FL- All the way from Queensland, Australia a pro-golfer is next in line to join Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour for 2009.

Sarah- Jane Kenyon, age 24, plays professional golf in the Duramed FUTURES tour. She joined the tour on January 20, 2005; a year after she became professional. Kenyon made her way all the way from Austrailia to the United States to challenge her skills as a golfer. "The United States is the best place for better learning experiences," says Kenyon at the Valencia Voice conference in Orlando, Florida on Nov. 10.

Like other star atheletes, Kenyon just didn't pick up a golf club at a very young age and started playing golf. Kenyon tried another sport; swimming. She did swimming before she got involved in golf, but her father played golf so she started playing with him and the rest is in the present.

"I always wanted to play some kind of professinal sport," says Kenyon, and her wish was granted. In 2002 Kenyon was announced the Australian Jr. Champion.

But fame and the life of golf is not the only thing going foward for Kenyon. In the conference she announces that she is getting married on January 10, 2009 back in Australia to Duane Smith, also from Australia.

"That was a big surprise." Says Kenyon as she talked to Duramed FUTURES Tour's Lisa D. Mickey, " We've been dating for 5 years, but we had never spoken about it and it was kind of an untouched topic. He didn't say anything and I didn't want to scare him, but he proposed on friday night of our tournament in Hammond, Ind. He took me to a Chicago Food Festival and he proposed to me at the top of the ferris wheel at the Navy Pier down on the water. I was taking photos and wasn't paying any attention. He asked me if I'd marry him and I was so shocked, I forgot that I was supposed to say yes. He was on one knee and everything in the ferris wheel and he said, 'Will you please say yes so I can get up?' That was a big deal because he is afraid of heights. It was quite unexpected."

Kenyon has a couple of tournaments lined up for her in the LPGA like the SBS in Hawaii which will be her starter in 2009. But right now she is focusing on her wedding plans and "hopefully a home in Orange County where we practice."