I found the story about this 11 year old girl fascinating..Golf is a difficult game to learn. Even harder to learn how to play well. Just Google her name..fascinating!
Lucy Li -- an 11-year-old girl from Silicon Valley -- has become the youngest golfer to qualify for the U.S. Women's Open by winning the sectional qualifier at Half Moon Bay in California.
And her coach, Jim McLean, thinks the grade-school girl with braces and a hard swing from Redwood Shores will be “No. 1 in the world real soon. She’s a prodigy, even though I didn’t think so at first."
Li, who moved to California from Hong Kong, has been training with McLean at the Jim McLean Golf Schools in Florida since she was 7.
McLean said that while she plays golf with him for four months out of the year, her father, Warren Li, a computer consultant, and her mother, Amy Zeng, who works at Hewlett Packard, remain at home in Silicon Valley.
11 year old Lucy Li reacts to her putt on the 11th hole during the first round of the U.S. Women's Open golf tournament in Pinehurst, N.C., Thursday, June 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
11 year old Lucy Li, right, prepares to tee off on the 10th hole with partners Jessica Wallace, left, of Canada, and Catherine O'Donnell, center, during the first round of the U.S. Women's Open golf tournament in Pinehurst, N.C., Thursday, June 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
11 year old Lucy Li lines up a putt on the 13th hole during the first round of the U.S. Women's Open golf tournament in Pinehurst, N.C., Thursday, June 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Bob Leverone)
11 year old Lucy Li prepares to hit her tee shot on the 11th hole during the first round of the U.S. Women's Open golf tournament in Pinehurst, N.C., Thursday, June 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
11 year old Lucy Li, left, walks with her caddie down the 15th fairway during the first round of the U.S. Women's Open golf tournament in Pinehurst, N.C., Thursday, June 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton