“There’s no method I’m not going to be on that group.”
That’s what Lauren Coughlin instructed herself final yr when she realized the Solheim Cup could be performed in her dwelling state of Virginia. Seven years in the past, Coughlin was competing on the Epson Tour and had earned slightly below $9,000 in prize cash. When she contemplated quitting the sport, her school coach on the College of Virginia, Kim Lewellen, who’s now at Wake Forest, instructed her that she hadn’t but reached her full potential.
Coughlin has since logged 103 begins on the LPGA, rapidly following her maiden win, on the CPKC Girls’s Open in July, with one other title on the ISPS Handa Girls’s Scottish Open simply three weeks later. She’s presently a career-best 14th within the Rolex Rankings.
Coughlin’s path to qualifying for this yr’s U.S. Solheim Cup group is one among persistence, persistence and perseverance.
And it may be traced to her childhood in Minnesota.
“My dad traveled so much after I was little, so I used to be hooked up to his hip when he was dwelling,” Coughlin stated. “When he wished to go to the golf course, I might tag alongside.”
