Yani Tseng, Lexi Thompson and Lydia look at shots during women of the US Open in Erin Hills on Thursday.
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Erin, Wis. – Wherever you look at Erin Hills, there are Sandra Palmer.
On Wednesday, she is in the NBC set for an interview before the tournament. On Tuesday, she is at the top of the room, seeking advice for 26 amateurs in the field. On Thursday morning, she is shaking in spectators exactly in the 9th green, all herself, a white ribbon ribbon, full of back, full of everything it would take for a day seeing golf.
Palmer is 82 but moves like someone half her age. She has no problem taking her 10,000 steps. Two hours after we first cross the cross on Thursday, I find it in the direction range, looking down in the shake of Gaby Lopez. After Palmer and maybe 40 meters away is a massive poster, the black and white of her newest self. It is shaking that the cutting of the feather shag that was known in 1975, when she won this tour at the age of 32.
“50 years?” She asks aloud, about me and anyone who can hear, laughing at that seemingly impossible passage of time. Half a century ago, she raised the trophy at the Atlantic City Country Club in New Jersey. Another illustration of everything that has happened since: The club has changed its hands many times in that half a century, all as Palmer continues to do her things. “I think a casino bought it,” she said. (She’s right – Caesars owned her by 2014.)
Palmer won the 30th US Open Women, this week is the 80th. The event is a study in career bows.
Has Lexi Thompson, who retirement At last year’s Open’s Open in SH.BA I 18th Time playing this event, at the age of only 29. It should be a past sample – having donated the trophy away Many times – but it is not. So now she is 30 years old and competed for once in the 19th. (There is no way of resting before 20th.)
Thursday’s Thompson’s group is Nellly Korda, who remembered this week that, despite being only 26 years old, she has already played this tour 10 times.
“Jeez,” Korda said, her eyes expanding for a separate second. After a few years she will have competed here for half of her life.
There are always more amateurs at this event than her male equivalent, which means it serves as a golf career launch point before they really feel like golf Careers. Lucy Li was only 11 years old when she played in 2014, with her pigtails, those red, white and blue dresses and treats her ice cream after round. She’s not on the field this week, but she is the 78th in the world now, already playing her third season at the LPGA Tour.
Asterisis Talley is only 16 years old, which means she was 15 years old last year when she retired with quarrels. She gained a healthy dose of attention that week and went viral for her bubble nature. Now, after a year full of interviews, maturity and a steady growth in amateur ranks, it deals with Q & as an experienced veterinarian. Her press conference in front of the tournament was not almost that fun, but that’s the issue. She will be a professional long ago.
There is an old Trop for writing golf that goes, 156 players on the field mean 156 different stories. Here feels like 156 different trajectory. They go from amateurs in pro for contenders for winners. Perhaps later they become transmitters and the hall of the fame. Erin Hills has started the process earlier, bringing Juniors out of 10 local schools to volunteer in the back of the range of running all week, stripping the evidence for the people they have seen only on TV.
There goes Amari Avery, who played in the 2013 documentary, Short game, at the age of 8. Now she is 20 years old, a professional, and she has just shot a under 71 who presented a television interview in the middle of the round. There in the range is Yani Tseng, who won her first adult before any of these high schools could read. Tseng they see in the verse this week still has that eternal, athletic pace, with no signs of decade of torment She passed to get here this week. On the contrary, all we’ve seen from tseng is the likes of child -like shrewdness of how large Open of American women is done. She walked on the ground with her mother this week, falling in love with the creation of the offers in which the USA has invested. Only players have access to.
“We have everything,” Tseng said. “It was so different than nine years ago; we had nothing. Now it’s … I feel like a child. That’s so young to me.”
Think about what it looks like for Palmer! Perhaps this is why she is dancing from place to place, soaking them all, driving her car politely and parking in a reserved parking spot of the previous champion. She headed for the USGA Museum experience in the country when I saw her on Thursday morning, and I had to open on her way. This time a year ago, I saw her get involved in the world golf hall in Pinehurst. She didn’t just go on stage that night; SHE limitedBoth hands up, shaking in front of the crowd. I would never have seen enough such energy to come from someone to the golf, but her words were in line with swelling. It holds a true DYNAMIC For this sport. The type that makes you want to go to the range yourself.
We had a nice conversation Thursday morning, though I kept it short. She had places to go! But before we shared the ways, she pulled out a business card from that draw bag. On the back is the logo of the world golf hall, the same in the pin she wears on her chest every day. Listed in the front of the card are the two main championships she won, and below them, the words Professional teaching. She still teaches lessons several times a week at Palm Springs. A career bow that never stopped bending.
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