Dear Chesnee,
Being your mom has been the greatest joy of my life. For most of my life before you I was focused on my golf game, my professional career and myself.
In the spring of 2018, when I found out that you were on your way, I couldn't believe it. I always wanted to be a mom. But like so many other women, I was scared of what was to come. Could I do it all? Could I play competitive golf at the highest level and be a good mom?
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SAN FRANCISCO – She’s happy-go-lucky, she wears shorts when it’s freezing cold, but most importantly, Megan Khang is a fighter.
Every time Khang steps onto the first tee of a tournament, she’s thinking of her family. “If I can do what I love to help them not have to worry about anything ever again, I’m going to do whatever it takes to make that happen,” Khang told the LPGA in May during AAPI Heritage month.
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Megan Khang accepts that there will always be gaps in her family story. Survivors of war often paint their experiences with a roller instead of a delicate brush. Like many survivors, the Khangs, who saw their relatives and friends brutalized, imprisoned and murdered in the late stages of the CIA’s secret war in their home country of Laos, never shared a lot of details. All that 23-year-old Megan, who was born in Massachusetts, knows is that “My parents at a young age, there was the war going on, and the Hmong people had helped the Americans, so they were offered asylum. My parents were lucky enough to be a part of that. They had different journeys getting to Thailand, because that was how they got to the United States, through Thailand.”
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Brittany Lincicome was getting ready to put daughter Emery down for a nap when she picked up the phone. They’d been at a neighbor’s pool party with the family dog Dexter. On Monday, she’ll fly to Las Vegas for the LPGA’s match play event at Shadow Creek, ready to get back to work.
Lincicome was supposed to be at the Pure Silk Championship at Kingsmill this week. Last Monday, her bags were packed, and her parents were set to drive her to the airport after a routine doctor’s visit at the 12-week mark of her pregnancy. The day prior, Lincicome had experienced light bleeding. She talked to her doctor and friends and everyone assured her it was probably fine.
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Two years ago at this time, Ana Belac was a senior on the Duke roster, helping her Blue Devils work their way through NCAA Championship week and ultimately to the national title. Belac was a big part of Duke’s seventh NCAA trophy – its first in match play – and hasn’t looked back since charting her career as a professional.
The 24-year-old from Slovenia finished first on the Symetra Tour money list last year, which earned her LPGA membership for the 2021 season as well as a start in the U.S. Women’s Open in December. Now, she’s lurking on an LPGA leaderboard.
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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. | There are two kinds of golfers: those who stick with the same putter for decades, believing that it holds some sort of magic like Thor’s hammer or King Arthur’s sword, and those who collect putters like postage stamps, believing that changing arrows will make a better archer.
Jack Nicklaus was the former. He won 17 of his 18 majors with a classic heel-shafted MacGregor. Bobby Jones won the Grand Slam with the now famous, hickory-shafted Calamity Jane. And Ben Crenshaw, one of the greatest putters in history, used the same MacGregor 8802, nicknamed “Little Ben,” throughout his career.
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Becoming a mom has been the best thing in the world. It sheds new light and perspective on everything. Having our daughter, Shay, in January of 2020 actually helped my golf game because of the new dimension it added to our lives.
My husband, Kevin, and I were so grateful for our daughter. But it was a long road. Kevin is seven years my senior, so he was ready to become a parent before I was. When we finally made the decision, it took us about three years. We considered in vitro fertilization. We talked about adoption, which we believe is one of the greatest blessings in life. We also went through all kinds of testing. Then, after deciding to undergo IVF and setting up the appointment, we got pregnant on our own, proving once again that God works in amazing ways. We had prayed and prayed, and nothing had happened. And then, once we set up the IVF appointment, we kind of relaxed and our prayers were answered.
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TUCSON (KVOA) -- Ruixin Liu (China) came from six shots down on Sunday to win the Symetra Tour's Casino del Sol Classic at Sewailo Golf Club in Tucson.
Liu birdied the last four holes to force a playoff with Florida State grad Morgane Metraux (Switzerland) at 15-under par. Metraux had led by five shots at the beginning of the final round.
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RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Bombing the golf ball is all the rage these days. The long ball has always been appealing, but hard data has increasingly supported the sentiment that distance is an incredible advantage. And with Bryson DeChambeau pushing the limits in the professional ranks, golf is at a crossroads.
But just because distance has taken hold of the game doesn’t mean it’s easy to achieve — especially for those weekend warriors with less free time than DeChambeau. Nor does distance-chasing on the professional level mean swing speed should be your No. 1 priority, either.
In fact, most amateur golfers would be better served focusing on another important skill with the big stick — accuracy. On the LPGA Tour, there are a number of players who choose accuracy over distance. Lizette Salas and Megan Khang are two of those fairway chasers, with each ranking inside the top five on Tour in driving accuracy.
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The sparkling smile on Gerina Piller’s face following her 2-under 70 on Friday rivaled the shimmer from the glittery threads sewn into her black pullover. After sitting out the entire 2018 season on maternity leave with her son A.J. and then the stops and starts of the 2020 season, Piller is finally getting to a place of serenity with her game.
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An amateur nearly won on the Symetra Tour on Sunday. Ruixin Liu, however, wasn’t going to let that happen.
It took two extra holes at Longbow Golf Club in Mesa, Arizona, for the Carlisle Arizona Women’s Golf Classic to reach a conclusion, but when Liu made a birdie on her third trip down No. 18 for the day, she effectively wrapped up her fifth career Symetra Tour title and forced Zhang to wait a little longer for her first win on the pro circuit.
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When Stacy Lewis won the 2020 Aberdeen Standard Investments Ladies Scottish Open, her first call was to husband Gerrod Chadwell and their daughter Chesnee back home in Texas. With a beaming smile on her face, Lewis got to tell her little girl those words every kid loves to hear – “We’re going to Disney World!”
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Gaby Lopez is looking forward to the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. And with good reason.
Lopez told GolfChannel.com on Tuesday that following her victory at the 2020 Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions, where she is defending her title this week, she was approached by Carlos Padilla Becerra, the president of the Mexican Olympic Committee. Lopez says he offered her the opportunity to carry the flag for Mexico during the opening ceremony in Japan.
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Brittany Lincicome sent a subtle signal on Tuesday as she began her 17th season on the LPGA Tour. She walked to the media center dressed head to toe in black, a departure for a player who has won eight times in a palette of pastel blues and pinks.
“I’m intimidating,” Lincicome joked about her dark ensemble, provided by her new clothing sponsor, Abacus Sportswear. She laughed about the color change, but the veteran was all business when it came to getting back to work at the 2021 season opener, the Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions.
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DURHAM, N.C.— Duke University women's golf 2020 graduate Ana Belac made a splash on the Symetra Tour, after concluding her Blue Devil career this past spring.
A native of Portoroz, Slovenia, Belac registered six top-20 results across nine starts on the Symetra Tour, including her first professional win at the Carolina Golf Classic. She earned $49,081 on her way to receiving her 2021 LPGA Tour card and Symetra Tour Player of the Year accolades.
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A Kentucky native playing on the LPGA Tour has joined with two organizations to promote girls golf in her home state.
Emma Talley, a native of Princeton, Ky., will become a Tradition Ambassador to the Kentucky PGA Junior Tour and the Peggy Kirk Bell Girls Golf Tour (PKBGT) in 2021. The PKBGT season-opening event will bear her name — the two-day Emma Talley Girls Tradition — will be April 17-18, 2021 at Bowling Green Country Club. That is where Talley won three Kentucky state high school championships while playing for Caldwell County High School.
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HOUSTON — Megan Khang enters this weekend at the U.S. Women’s Open in a tie for third and just four strokes off the lead of Japan’s Hinako Shibuno. A victory would be the first of her career after she turned pro five years ago.
That’s hardly the most incredible part of her story.
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The Atlanta Falcons have named defensive end Steven Means as their nominee for the NFL's Walter Payton Man of the Year Award.
Means first joined the Falcons in 2018; he has become an impactful player on the field, but that is far exceeded by his impact off of it. A leader on the team's Social Justice Committee, Means was instrumental in the Falcons' initiative of educating local youth in the voting space.
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The theory is a sound one – Brittany Lang, who already has one U.S. Women’s Open title under her belt, was reared in Texas, the state where this year’s event will be held starting Thursday. She’s certain to have an edge in terms of familiarity, right?
Not necessarily.
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HOUSTON – Stacy Lewis is ecstatic about the opportunity to compete for a U.S. Women’s Open title in her own backyard.
She graduated from The Woodlands High School, which sits roughly 30 minutes from Champions Golf Club, the site of this week’s tournament. And she’s been a member at Champions, nestled in the northwest suburbs of Houston, for about four years.
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