Lizette Salas - not your typical path to the LPGA

[nevets88]

A profile of Lizette Salas, who birdied the last 3 holes of a 9 woman playoff to get the last available LPGA card. I never get tired of reading these pull yourself up by the bootstrap stories.

The daughter of Mexican immigrants, she used golf to become the first in her family to earn a college degree. She had spent much of last year traveling to tournaments on the L.P.G.A. Futures Tour in a truck with her father, sometimes sleeping in rest areas to save money. So with the last full-status tour card on the line in December’s L.P.G.A. qualifying tournament, Salas put her lifelong survival instincts to work.

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"Her father, Ramon, struck a deal years ago with the director of golf at Azusa Greens Golf Course, a public course where he works as the head mechanic for the grounds crew.

“I asked Ramon to help me out with a few things at my house, but when I tried to pay him, he wouldn’t take my money,” the head pro Jerry Herrera said. “Instead, he asked me to teach his children how to play golf.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/sports/golf/lizette-salas-earns-spot-on-lpga-tour.html?_r=1&partner;=rss&emc;=rss&pagewanted;=all

[1puttit]

Great article - thanks for sharing that. Looks like she's got some game too, currently T25 after three rounds in the Founders Cup.

[WWBDD]

Agree ... that's a great story.