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Malak Bouraeda is making history this week at her first U.S. Women's Open presented by ProMedica. She is the first golfer – woman or man – from Morocco and ...

“A lot of my memories of important events originate in this part of the country. It was a nerve-racking day,” said Bouraeda, who finished at 143 for 36 holes, enough for a trip to Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club. It is fun to uphold the fact that women golfers are doing better than men,” said 21-year-old Bouraeda, who recently completed her senior year at the University of Colorado and is planning to return to the golf team as a fifth-year senior while pursuing a master’s degree in Strategic Communications.

Last March, a female collegiate basketball player from the University of Oregon went viral when she posted a video of the “weight room” at the 2021 NCAA ...

“I would love to see someone show up for a week — can’t get your clubs re-gripped, can’t get any new equipment, can’t go work out,” Alex said. “I just want to throw them in like, one of our events that are not necessarily like a major, or doesn’t have all the glitz and glam,” Alex continued. “I really want them to do like, a day-in-the-life segment and just take like, one of the guys,” she said.

There Ally Ewing, Sophia Popov, Angela Stanford and Sarah Kemp stood on the back of the range for more than an hour giving a clinic to scores of fans. They ...

What she is doing is a charity called Golf Fore Africa, which King created in 2007 after a life-changing trip to Rwanda, Zambia and Tanzania. There she witnessed, firsthand, the devastating impact the lack of freshwater has on civilization as a whole, and the lives of women and children in particular. They took questions, like how you figure out if a driver is right for you, and how to open the face of a wedge to hit a bunker shot. “We stayed in the air conditioning for about 20 minutes and took some pictures,” Ewing said. Still, according to the World Health Organization, one out of every four people in the world lack safe drinking water. Everything I did before – every tournament I won and every award I received – was a prelude to this. They talked about their warmup routines, the distances they hit specific clubs, how they configuration their bags, why they carry or don’t carry hybrids and how to get a 3-wood off the ground.

Megan Khang plays her tee shot on the second hole during the second round of the 77th U.S. Women's Open at Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club on June 03, 2022 in ...

As long as I'm trying my best to limit my mistakes and put my best game out there, everything will come at the right time. But I think as I've grown up out here to where (I know and accept that) you can't control what everyone else is going to do. But I have to get better about that where I shouldn't let it affect me. Eventually, you have to look at a leaderboard, see your name up top, and feel like everything is right with the world. “Just kind of keep it steady out there and not get ahead.” Those sacrifices included her father, Lee, quitting his job as a mechanic to teach Megan golf and drive her to competitions in their home region of New England. But it is also much more.

— When she was barely out of toddlerhood, Megan Khang would hit golf balls from her parents' garage in Massachusetts, where her father, then a mechanic, fixed ...

“It’s definitely still a work in progress,” Khang said of her near-misses at majors. “A couple women I played with were like, ‘Do you want to start your own well?’ ” Khang said. “That’s a scary thing to do at any age, let alone a child’s age,” Khang said of her family’s harrowing journey. She is the only player on the LPGA Tour of Hmong and Laotian descent. Her family’s background also expanded Khang’s perspective about the world. They sacrificed everything to give me the life I’m living now. They did not, however, teach her to speak Hmong, concerned it would interfere with her command of English. SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. — When she was barely out of toddlerhood, Megan Khang would hit golf balls from her parents’ garage in Massachusetts, where her father, then a mechanic, fixed cars. She is tied with Anna Nordqvist. Fellow Swede Ingrid Lindblad, the amateur who opened with a stunning 65, fired an even-par 71 and is three shots back. It was during the initial throes of the pandemic in 2020 that Khang earned her first top five at a major championship, coming in fifth at the U.S. Women’s Open at Champions Golf Club in Houston. She backed that up with a fourth-place showing at last year’s U.S. Women’s Open at the Olympic Club in San Francisco. Super proud to share my family’s story. “We’re very fortunate that it worked out this way.”