No matter which course configuration you play at Coffs Harbour Golf Club, Amelia Mehmet-Grohn is the woman to beat.

A junior at the club from the age of 13, Mehmet-Grohn owns the record score for each of the three courses that can be played across the 27-hole facility. She is also a four-time Ladies Club Champion, four-time Mixed Foursomes Champion and two-time winner of the Coffs Harbour Ladies Classic.

Her current low mark of 72 for the East Lakes Course (holes 10-27) is likely to fall in Round 1 of the Australian Women’s Classic starting Friday, but it won’t erase the rich history the 27-year-old will be able to call upon over the three days.

Given the disruption to preparations for players in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Alfred that brought extensive rainfall to the Coffs Coast region, local knowledge may never have counted for more.

As course staff worked tirelessly on Tuesday to repair bunkers and clear debris, players will be permitted to play the course for the first time on Wednesday morning.

Some players may only get one look at the full 18 holes while Mehmet-Grohn able to call upon thousands of rounds she has played stretching back more than a decade.

“I don’t actually know how I’d be able to count that, but yeah, a lot. I’d say thousands,” Mehmet-Grohn said of her history at Coffs Harbour.

“Anyone that gets a home course advantage, it definitely helps, but you’ve still got to do the job.

“I’m very excited for it, to have a home crowd, it’s going to be fun. I’m excited for it.”

Aussie amateur Jihye Park’s 64 in Round 2 was the low round of the week when the Women’s NSW Open was played at Coffs Harbour in 2018.

That week, the first hole was played as a par 4, whereas this week – as it does each week for the members – the first will play as a long par 3. That means that Mehmet-Grohn will have to go low again to retain her clean sweep of Coffs course records.

Either way, the opportunity to play a WPGA Tour of Australasia event co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour is one 13-year-old Amelia could only have dreamed of.

“It’s pretty unreal to have the LET girls here this week and to let Coffs have this opportunity,” she added after taking West Australian Abbie Teasdale and LET stars Trichat Cheenglab, Magdalena Simmermacher and Daniela Darquea on a tour of the Big Banana on Tuesday.

“(My earliest memory) is probably just getting up at the crack of dawn. I know my parents didn’t really appreciate it, but I sure did.

“Bill Mackay ran the juniors and he really supported us so I’m very grateful to him.

“Just that experience of getting to know kids at that age and we had quite a good junior program at that point, so I was very lucky.”

Such was Mehmet-Grohn’s eagerness to secure a place in the field for an LET event at her home course, she returned to WPGA Qualifying School in December to improve her category.

She finished tied for third at Coolangatta-Tweed Heads Golf Club and has performed well at Webex Players Series Murray River and the Vic Open to enter the week with a positive mindset.

“I’m coming off some good golf and I know that there’s still a lot in the tank,” said Mehmet-Grohn, who spent five years at Iowa State College.

“If I can do well this week, it would obviously be really, really cool.

“I’m excited for where my golf is heading and just to keep stacking it up would be really good.”

Headlining this week’s field are Aussie LPGA stars Grace Kim, Sarah Kemp and Karis Davidson, West Australian Kirsten Rudgeley and leading LET players Trichat Cheenglab, Cara Gainer, Pauline Roussin-Bouchard and Manon De Roey.

Play is scheduled to begin at 7:30am AEDT Friday morning with the final two rounds to be broadcast live on Fox Sports and Kayo from 11am-4pm Saturday and Sunday.

Photo: Tristan Jones/LET