The 72-hole LPGA tournament at the Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club will host nine of the top 10 players in the world, including No. 1 Lilian Vu and No. 2 Nelly Korda of the United States
As a three-year-old, Lauren Kim terrified her family by whacking plastic golf balls around their home in Surrey, B.C.
Earlier this month Kim had five birdies during the final round to win the Canadian Amateur Women’s Championship in Halifax. With it, she received an automatic berth into the CKPC Women’s Open in Vancouver. The 72-hole LPGA tournament at the Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club starts Thursday and offers US$2.5-million in prize money. The winner gets US$375,000.
“It was a little bit hectic,” she said. She is enrolled as business major. “While I would like to be there, I am not unhappy about it. An opportunity like this doesn’t come around very often.”Among the others are Victoria Liu and Sonja Tang of Vancouver, sisters Maddie and Ellie Szeryk of London, Ont., Alena Sharp of Hamilton, Katie Cranston of Oakville, Ont., Brooke Rivers of Brampton, Ont., Lauren Zaretsky of Toronto and 17-year-old Yeji Kwon of Port Coquitlam, B.C.
Her home course is Shaughnessy, so she has a built-in advantage over others seeing it for the first time. She estimates she has played there hundreds of times over the past eight years. It is a par-72, 6,709-yard course with tight fairways, a deep rough and small, fast, sloping greens. Kind of a gorgeously maintained nightmare.
First her grandparents and then her parents operated a driving range so she was almost born into the sport. She began to compete in tournaments in the U.S. at a young age and caught the attention of NCAA Div. I coaches. She visited the University of Texas in 2020 and decided to attend.At 16, she was invited to play in the U.S. Open. She had been on the alternate list and did not learn that she was headed to the tournament in Southern Pines, N.C., until the last moment.
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