Golf: Lynette Brooky breaks her elbow

Professional golfer Lynette Brooky's career is on hold after an unusual accident in which she broke her left elbow as she went to post a letter.

But New Zealand's No 2 women's player vows she will be fit for the Australian Masters in February.

"I can't straighten it right now and I can't bend it fully, but everybody who's broken a bone knows how much work you've got to do," she said in Wellington yesterday.

Brooky, who turned professional in 1994, said the accident happened when she was getting out of her manager Gail Allport's car to post a letter.

"I was going to jump out to place the letter and my foot just caught on a handbag on the floor. I went down on the road and then the footpath and I heard it crack," she said.

The injury was especially frustrating because she had been playing so well.

"I shot a 68 at the Hutt the day before I broke it, and I really was playing well. I still feel extremely confident."

Brooky won the French Open in June, pocketing $80,000 for her second win on the European Tour.

- NZPA