Ash Barty has her memorabilia hanging up at home and Layne Beachley tipped her for big things at age 14. Meet Molly Picklum, the first non-Hawaiian woman to conquer the Pipeline Masters.
But then Molly “Pickles” Picklum has long had some of Australia’s finest sportswomen in her corner.
“Layne’s incredible, she’s done so much for the sport,” Picklum gushes down the line from Hawaii’s North Shore.“I went to one of her camps when I was 14 and I guess I was the most enthusiastic kid there. Layne picked me for a rising star award at the end of it and I turned to my parents afterwards and we said, ‘Maybe I should follow this sport and see where it can take me’.
And then to Pipeline, the world’s true maker of boardriding men and women, where she emerged with a finals triumph over five-time world champ and local expert Carissa Moore, $100,000 in prize money and “the greatest moment of my career… so far.” “Whenever I have time to go to the Gold Coast we’ll play golf but she sweeps the floor with us. She won’t even hear about going surfing either, she just shuts down the convo straight away.
“And then she hung them up at her new house,” Picklum laughs, “it was a bit of a pinch yourself moment.”
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