Time Travelers at the U.S. Women’s Open show us something special

Erin, Wisconsin – Erin Hills are everywhere, and Sandra Palmer is all over.

On Wednesday, she participated in an interview before NBC’s tournament. On Tuesday, she was on the head of the room, giving advice to 26 amateurs in the wild. On Thursday morning, she flipped through the 9th green audience, alone, a white traction strung on her back, filled with everything she needed to watch golf in one day.

Palmer is 82 years old, but acts like half of her. She undoubtedly obtained 10,000 steps. Two hours after we first crossed the route on Thursday, I found her on the driving range, staring at Gaby Lopez’s swing. Behind Palmer and 40 feet away is the huge, black and white poster of her young self. Her shaky feathery hairy cut won the 32-year-old in 1975.

“50 years?” She asked me and others who might be listening, smiling at the seemingly impossible time. Half a century ago, she held up the trophy at the Atlantic City and Country Club in New Jersey. Another example of everything that has happened since: in that half century, the club has changed hands countless times, and Palmer has been doing her things. “I think the casino bought it,” she said. (She was right – Caesars had it until 2014.)

Palmer won the 30th U.S. Women’s Open, ranking 80th this week. This activity is a study of career arc.

There is Lexi Thompson, who teases retired at last year’s U.S. Women’s Open 18th At the 29-year-old competition, play this activity time. She should be the champion of the past – sent the trophy away many times – but she wasn’t. So now she is 30 years old and has competed for the 19th time. (She has no way to quit before the 20th.)

In Thompson’s Thursday group, Nelly Korda was reminded this week that despite being only 26, she has competed 10 times.

“Yez,” Korda said, her eyes widening for a second. In a few years, she will be here to participate half of her life.

During this event, amateurs are always more educated than their male equivalent, meaning it is the launching point for a golf profession and then it really feels like a golf ball Profession. Lucy Li was only 11 when she played in 2014, those red, white and blue outfits and her rear ice cream snacks. She wasn’t on the scene this week, but now ranked 78th in the world and has played her third season on the LPGA Tour.

Talley was only 16 years old, meaning she was 15 years old last year when she fought against the battle. She won the spotlight of health that week and was all the rage for her bubble nature. Now, after a year of interviews, mature and steady rising amateur ratings, she handles Q&A like an experienced veterinarian. Her pre-match press conference wasn’t that fun, but that’s the point. She will soon become a professional.

There is an old golf writing, and the field has 156 players that means 156 different stories. It feels like 156 different here Track. They moved from amateurs to competitors to winners. Maybe they became broadcasters and Hall of Fame later. Erin Hills even started the process earlier, sending Prove1 to people they only see on TV throughout the week, from juniors at 10 local schools to volunteers.

Amari Avery starred in the 2013 documentary. Short game, 8 years old. Now she is 20 years old and a professional, she just filmed a televised interview in the under-71 competition. Yani Tseng’s range is Yani Tseng, who won her first major and then these high school students can read. The Tseng they saw this week in this range still has a timeless, athletic swing, and there hasn’t been a decade she’s crossed the decade she’s here this week. Instead, all we see about Tseng is just the pain of the child Big The American Women’s Open has become. She walked the ground with her mother this week and stared at USGA-invested products. Only players Available to access.

“We got everything,” Tseng said. “It’s a little different from nine years ago; we have nothing. Now… I feel like a kid. It’s so new to me.”

Think about what Palmer looks like! Maybe that’s why she bounced from one place, soaked it all, drove her own courteous car and parking lot, and parked in the reserved front bathroom parking space. When I met her Thursday morning, she went to the live USGA Museum experience and I had to walk into her path. This time a year ago, I watched her inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame by Pinehurst. She didn’t just walk out on the stage that night. she limitedwith his hands high, waved to the crowd. I’ve never seen anyone with such energy coming from golf, but her words match the rebound. She has a real one enthusiasm For this sport. The kind that makes you want to get into the range yourself.

We had a pleasant chat on Thursday morning, although I was brief. She has a place to go! But before we parted ways, she dug a business card from that rope bag. On the back is the World Golf Hall of Fame logo, and she wears the pins on her chest every day. Listed at the front of the card are the two main championships she won, under that Teaching professionals. She still attends classes several times a week at her home in Palm Springs. The curved career arc never stopped.

She shrugged and said, “This is not my favorite thing, but it’s great to help people enjoy this game.”

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