WHEN the pressure of landing a 20-yard putt at a major golf tournament is just a normal day's work it is fair to say that very little would faze you.

But some of the world's best women golfers had to deal with a mob of kangaroos grazing the greens of the Royal Canberra golf course during a major tournament this week.

Dozens of raucous roos were seen storming the fairways as the world's best slugged it out for the top spot at the Australian Women's Open.

Apparently the kangaroos are drawn to the lush, watered golf courses during the summer months.

In 2000, local media reported that so many kangaroos were feeding on the well tendered lawns in the Australian capital that they had to be culled because they were a threat to motorists.