14-year-old golfer competes in women’s major

The tournament opened on June 3 with a prize fund of $5.5 million at the lake, par71 of Olympic Club in San Francisco.

The youngest and still amateur, but Kovelesky is formidable in terms of serving, as shown in practice a day ago. On the first tee box, she entered a squat position to “activate her body” before swinging the club back.

After the crackling bang due to the right sweet spot on the clubface, Kovelesky’s “driver” went more than 280 yards.

At that distance, Kovelesky is ahead of many of his fellow title contenders. They were the same age as her sister, even Kovelesky’s aunt. This season’s LPGA Tour is recording Hannah Green in 10th place in teeing distance, averaging 274.77 yards.

“I’ve followed that habit for a long time. Without it, I’m not effective,” Kovelesky shared about the individual activation movement before each shot.

Share on Twitter, reporter Beth Ann Nichols works at Golfweek says Kovelesky regularly plays in the range of 280-290 yards.

Kovelesky tried the Lake field on June 1. “Always be careful. The yard is very difficult,” she commented. During the field trip, this teenager golfer was led by Morgan Pressel – an analyst from Golf Channel He is also a longtime player on the LPGA Tour and won the major ANA Inspiration 2007.

From the age of seven, Kovelesky liked and accepted Pressel as a mentor. Her personal caddy – Barry Cesarz – will be Kovelesky’s real combat assistant in her first USGA women’s major.

Back in 2001, Pressel was the youngest player at the US Women’s Open. To date, this record has changed hands twice, including Lexi Thompson in 2007 when she was 12 years and four months and 18 days old, and Lucy Li, 11 years old in 2014. Thompson was a few months younger when she broke Pressel’s mark.

Over the past two weeks, Kovelesky has focused on correcting his driver technique, thereby reducing ball spin to optimize play distance, training wedges with the highest and most accurate ball possible to handle complex green surfaces. at Olympic Club

Kovelesky entered the US Women’s Open 2021 through a 36-hole selection round in Florida three weeks ago. At this filter, he closed the top 3 with a score of -4 on the par70 course.

Kovelesky practiced golf from a young age in his home garden, became a member of Boca Woods golf course near his home at the age of five, and twice won first place in the age group at the all-American children’s tournament but with a multinational scale. Last year, Kovelesky carried the Best Gross – the all-round champion organized by Boca Woods, gathering most of the male golfers on a course longer than 6,800 yards.

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