Caitlin Clark entertains the crowds on the 2023 John Deere Basic Professional-Am.
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The “Caitlin Clark Impact” is heading to the LPGA Tour.
Clark, the newly minted WNBA Rookie of the 12 months, has performed an enormous position within the rising recognition of girls’s basketball, and ladies’s sports activities as a complete, throughout her record-breaking school profession on the College of Iowa. The Iowa native received nationwide participant of the 12 months honors twice on her solution to changing into the NCAA Division I all-time main factors scorer.
The WNBA Finals are set to start this week, however Clark and the Indiana Fever received knocked out within the first spherical by the Connecticut Solar. Clark, an avid golfer, had beforehand mentioned she would spend a whole lot of time on the golf course within the offseason.
By Mid-November, the climate is likely to be too chilly for golf in Indiana, however there’s a superb probability there will probably be good golf climate at Pelican Golf Membership in Belleair, Fla., the place Clark will tee it up at The Annika LPGA occasion.
On Monday, the LPGA introduced that Clark would participate within the Wednesday pro-am at The Annika, hosted by LPGA legend Annika Sorenstam, set to happen Nov. 13. Clark is a model ambassador for Gainbridge, which is the presenting sponsor of The Annika.
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“I really like golf so the chance to play within the pro-am for a event with a legend like Annika Sorenstam’s title on it’s so thrilling,” Clark mentioned in a press launch. “Gainbridge is a pacesetter in supporting girls’s sports activities and that’s clear by way of their dedication to me, this occasion, Billie Jean King, and Parity Week. I’m wanting ahead to seeing all of the LPGA gamers on the driving vary, being a part of the Girls’s Management Summit, and, in fact, teeing it up within the pro-am with Annika.”
Sorenstam additionally expressed her pleasure at Clark’s involvement within the event she hosts.
“I’ve been following Caitlin’s profession throughout school and now on the WNBA stage, and what she is doing to deliver consideration to girls’s sports activities each on and off the courtroom is excellent,” Sorenstam mentioned within the launch. “I’m excited to fulfill Caitlin and for her to hitch us at Pelican Golf Membership in November in what will probably be an thrilling week for ladies’s sports activities.”
However that’s not all Clark will probably be as much as at The Annika. She may even be a panelist on the Girls’s Management Summit going down the night time earlier than the pro-am.
Clark does have some expertise taking part in in professional golf occasions. In 2023, she participated within the pro-am on the PGA Tour’s John Deere Basic, taking part in alongside fellow Iowan Zach Johnson.
