Soon soon, Aphrodite Deng will worry about her high school year. Until then it has a much greater task: pretending in this week Canadian Open.
Deng is only 15 years old, but is connected to the head of the leader after 18 holes at CPKC Women Open, held in Ontario this week, in her Homeland of Canada although still far from where she grew up in Calgary.
Deng shot a 66 first round, compatible only with Lpga Vets Megan Khang and Gaby Lopez, and found himself in the spotlight after the round. Filled with questions about nerves, experience, playing in front of crowds, etc., Deng seemed largely uncontrolled.
“Really really interesting,” she said in an interview next. “Undoubtedly something I dreamed of.”
On those crowds:
“Yes, feel good. I just like to try to stay focused here.”
And how did she feel to see her name at the top of the leaders?
“I thought it was very cute, but I just knew I had to keep the same game plan.”
We will allow him to be comfortable in front of the cameras, but there will be many of those who follow him this weekend. We are just a round, of course, but you can predict the conversation if it continues to hang around the top of the board. People will start talking about how a 15-year-old did the same accurate thing in Canadian Open 13 years ago. This was Lydia Ko surrounded in 2012, becoming the youngest player ever won in the LPGA Tour.
What followed in the career of koGiven that point of release, it is not so startling. And with all the proper respect for the weight of the weekend in front of it, Deng has grown almost just as fast. She has moved to Florida to work in full -time Golf, attending online school at the ICL Academy. She works with coach Todd Anderson at TPC Sawgrass, and occasionally finds herself hitting balls in front of the other student of Anderson, Billy horschel.
Dang’s wine has included three amateur wins, especially in Mizuho americas Open – playing together Nelly cord – And then the US girls ‘girls’ championship in July. While the women of the 22nd women’s women in the world, she has been green for the Golf Stardom after joining the Team Canada squad, Nextgen Squad, a national program that aims to get more Canadian PGA and LPGA Tours.
All this means, yes, she has a future in the game. How bright will it be? We can get some data this weekend in Canada.
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