LPGA Corridor of Famer and {golfing} legend Kathy Whitworth was virtually as excited congratulating Gurleen Kaur on successful the Paris Championship as Kaur was for successful her first Ladies’s All Professional Tour occasion.
Kaur capped the three-day WAPT occasion with a remaining spherical of 67 to win the $5,000 first prize in solely her second tour occasion. Her successful three-round whole was 201 on the Paris Golf and Nation Membership.
“I completed three underneath right now,” Kaur mentioned of her remaining spherical. “I used to be putting the ball actual nicely.”
“I completed nicely,” she mentioned of her remaining spherical that included 5 birdies.
She added that the hole-in-one she acquired on the primary day of the event didn’t damage, both.
Kaur pulled even with first spherical chief Hannah Arnold on day two of the occasion. Arnold resulted in a tie for second with a three-day whole of 203.
Alice Duan additionally fired a three-day whole of 203, capturing a 67 on day three.
“She has a vivid future,” Whitworth mentioned in the course of the verify and trophy presentation. “It’s enjoyable to look at good gamers.”
Whitworth, who acquired concerned with the Paris event by her friendship with Pine Ridge Golf Course proprietor Cathy Harbin, praised the occasion and the group.
“It has been nice getting to fulfill all these younger gamers and this offers them an opportunity to play towards actually good gamers.” Whitworth mentioned. “That is how they study. How they study to face as much as strain.”
“Golf has so many pluses,” Whitworth mentioned. “This provides them an opportunity to hone aggressive expertise. That’s the reason I’m pleased about this event. It provides them a spot to play. It’s a chance and it’s as much as them to do what they’ll with it.”
Kuar, and lots of the different gamers, are hoping to in the future be part of the Girls Skilled Golf Tour, that Whitworth was dominant in for therefore a few years with 88 tournaments, greater than some other skilled golfer.
One Monday, Kaur is taking part in on the Outdated American Golf Membership in The Colony in a qualifying spherical for the Ascendant LPGA.
Kaur, who performed golf at Baylor College, mentioned her dad launched her to the sport and emphasised {that a} spot of the LPGA is certainly a objective.
So far as the Paris Championship course goes, Kaur was happy with the situation.
“The golf course is in very nice form,” she mentioned. “I actually appreciated gap 9. It has a pleasant tee shot.”
However these timber round gap 18 made that one her least favourite, she mentioned.
The native coordinator for the event was Lori Napier and she or he was proud of the flip of occasions.
“It’s going very well. We’ve got an excellent quantity of volunteers,” she mentioned earlier than the top of the third day of the event.
“I need to, after all, thank our sponsors and we hope to develop the help yearly,” Napier mentioned.
The occasion benefited CitySquare and Government Director Derald Bulls was available for the finale.
“CitySquare is grateful to have been chosen as a beneficiary of the Ladies’s All Professional Tour occasion on the Paris Golf and Nation Membership this week. It has been our pleasure to have the chance to get to fulfill lots of the younger girls who’re collaborating on this fantastic occasion. We want every of them continued success of their efforts,” Bulls mentioned. “We’re grateful to the event organizers for choosing CitySquare to companion with them on this occasion. A number of of our board members and workers have had the chance to look at these younger girls play and work together with them. It was an important occasion.”
