If you’re a golf-agnostic sports editor barracking for the story, Caley McGinty is probably not your girl tomorrow.

It’s not exactly a three-way race to win the Australian Women’s Classic, but the emerging Englishwoman has put herself into a final-round three-ball that has cut itself a little gap on the chasing pack.

She is a future promoter’s dream – a powerful, elegant, well-spoken tyro who is clearly capable of tearing a course apart.

From a golf purist’s point of view, that’s gold.

But from that sports editor’s point of view, that’s the future.

The stories that sell papers tomorrow belong to her playing partners.

There’s leader Kelsey Bennett, the “girl next door” who represents the future of Australian golf on the Ladies European Tour.

She’s taken enormous strides up the world rankings in the past year, her first on the LET.

She’s become a regular fixture at the pointy end of the leaderboard, she’s on her home soil and is a crowd magnet strong enough to pull a vocal crowd along for the ride tomorrow.

Then there’s Meghan MacLaren, another Englishwoman, but one who’s so taken to Australians – and they her – that she also has something of a gravitational pull for the fans.

Remarkably, she has won thrice at this level on New South Wales soil, including this event in 2022 – making her the only player in this field to have won the AWC.

And adding to the appeal of this incredibly eloquent visitor, she has been typically open in telling the tale of her career-threatening slide since that victory.

Either would make an incredibly interesting story for said sports editor.

But then there’s McGinty.

The Bristol native only turned pro 18 months ago, having spent the preceding four years in the American collegiate system while racking up an impressive amateur resumé on both sides of the Atlantic.

She soon graduated to the LPGA Tour for the 2025 season, but before last week’s fast-finishing 5^th at the Ford New South Wales Open, her best result as a pro was seventh in the LPGA Tour’s FM Championship in August.

It’s not exactly a page-turning sales pitch for our sports editor.

But if we could just get that person to come and watch, they’d be a convert.

McGinty has gone a full 40 holes without a bogey to pull herself level with compatriot MacLaren at 11 under, just one behind Bennett.

McGinty could be excused for feeling overawed, or even an interloper in this big story mix.

But you wouldn’t know it.

“I think it’s great for Kelsey and for Australia, for her to be playing so well, so good to see Australians playing well in these events,” McGinty said when asked if she was something of a fourth-round spoiler in the making.

“And I always looked up to Meg growing up. She would win on the LET when I was coming through junior ranks, so I think that would be a cool story as well.

“I’m just excited to play with them.

“I’m just enjoying it more than anything. Yeah, there’s nothing else really to it.”

These are such “cool” words from a first-time visitor to Australia whose Instagram account shows she’s certainly taking time to smell the roses.

Time will tell if she can maintain that composure when the whips are cracking tomorrow, with two players who’ve each spent far more time in front of the TV cameras that will follow the group’s every move.

Let’s just hope our sports editor can see the merit in all three stories, because this shapes as a battle that will go the distance.

And be a genuine page-turner in doing so.