Annie Park, who graduated from high school early and won an NCAA individual title and led the Trojans’ women’s golf team to the NCAA title in 2013, turned pro in June and won her first tournament today. Park won the Symetra Tour’s Danielle Downey Classic in Rochester, N.Y.
The Symetra Tour is a developmental tour for the LPGA. Park spent 2.5 years at USC and still wore her USC visor today. Photo/ Lauren Petracca/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle,
Interesting article in the San Diego Union about Chinese parents sending their kids to the US to play golf in high school in hopes of getting college golf scholarships and an education. Seems in China if you want to be a pro golfer you go to a golf academy full time and don’t go to school. If you don’t make it you have no future. Park though was born in New York.
Excelling at high school sports is a potential golden ticket to a free education…..nothing more, nothing less….it is NOT a guarantee to a pro career in the NFL or the NBA, or even a high paying corporate job, for that matter…. I really wish that more kids understood that…….
Or in some cases, they come to get an education but get murdered in south LA… By the way Park is an American of Korean decent… Kinda sense racist tone in your post or in the very least ignorance in mentioning an article about Chinese practices. Are all asians the same to you?
hey teddy,
did they ever find the kids that attended ugly and were kidnapped out of their dorm room right there on the ugly’s campus? Let us know.
Were they Americans (North, Central or South Americans)?……..Ted requires clarification……
I think Park is Korean, and the girls throwing water on her are probably her Korean buddies. What a great moment for them.
“Friends” throwing water on Park are Canadian and an American (Texan.) They played college golf at UW and Pepperdine respectively. They are ethnically Korean as is Park.