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They may still be shorter than their golf bags but the young Alvin-ae and Al-shae Landy are already being tipped as the 'Williams sisters of golf'.

While most little girls are out playing with Barbie dolls, the young sisters, aged five and seven, only want to play golf.

Their coach Leo 'Mr C' Custodio, who has been coaching golf in Bermuda for fifty years, says he has never seen talent quite like the Landy sisters.

"I can't really explain it. The way these girls swing a golf club, it brings tears to people's eyes to look at it.

"They look like miniature pros. They really have some talent. You have to be eight-years-old to play junior golf but they are ready right now. They could take on the boys.

"They love to play. They look so happy when they're swinging a golf club. They don't just know how to hit it, they can chip and putt as well.

"We have a lot of great young talent in Bermuda but I've never seen anything quite like it. People are saying America has the Williams sisters, but we have the Landy sisters."

Marie Johnson, manager of the Ocean View club where Alvin-ae, seven, and Al-shae, five, practice, agreed that they were a phenomenon.

"They come up and practice on the driving range and their dad takes them round the course. They are a joy to watch. They are so polite and they just want to play golf the whole time.

"Anybody who has seen them hit a ball can't believe how good their swing is.

"You could say they are the Venus and Serena of golf. It's a bit premature but that is what we are all thinking."

The girls' dad Al Landy said he couldn't take any credit for the girls' natural talent.

He said he had only given them a toy set of clubs to keep them busy and give himself some peace.

"I taped up those clubs so many times. All they wanted to do was play golf."

Landy said he'd eventually been talked into buying the girls a proper set of junior clubs and taking them to the course to play.

"I don't really know anything about golf but everyone who has seen them has said the same thing.

"I really thought it was a phase. I was taking them up the golf course to get it out their system and people kept coming up to me and saying 'they've got talent, you've got to take them to lessons."

He said when several different people had suggested he take the girls to Mr C's golf academy he took it as a sign.

Now they are among the academy's star students and even excelled at a golf camp at Myrtle Beach this summer.

"I don't want any credit. I don't know where they get it from. That's them children, It's just how they are.

"It's up to them where they want to go with it . People are talking they are like the Williams sisters but I can't speak for what life holds for them. It's up to them."

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