Lexi Thompson’s golf bag shined brilliant on the Shriners Youngsters’s Open this week.
Cobra Golf, her sponsor, supplied Thompson with a model new, clear, white bag at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas this week.
She put it to good use.
“I had the Shriners children design it and write a number of issues on it, which makes it extra particular as a result of that’s what this week is all about,” Thompson stated forward of the event on Wednesday.
“It’s superb what Shriners does for these children. They provide them the chance to have the ability to comply with their goals and dwell the healthiest life-style they will. I’m mainly carrying them throughout with me this week and having their help means the world.”
She had the eye of {the golfing} world this week as Thompson got here shut to creating the minimize on the Shriners Youngsters’s Open in her PGA Tour debut.
Had she accomplished so, she would have been the primary girl to play the weekend at a contemporary PGA Tour event.
However the spotlight of Thompson’s week was not ending a PGA Tour occasion at even par by means of 36 holes. Nor was it driving the inexperienced on the par-4 fifteenth throughout Friday’s second spherical.
“Assembly a few of the Shriners children, ambassadors, was most likely the spotlight [of my week],” Thompson famous after her spherical on Friday.
“Being with them, giving a clinic, giving golf classes, and hopefully inspiring them to go after what they need. That was most likely essentially the most particular.”
Event organizers awarded one in all their sponsor exemptions to Thompson, therefore the LPGA Tour star taking part in among the many males.
The transfer to take action paid off, as Thompson served as an incredible ambassador for Shriners.
“One of many distinctive experiences that’s occurred along side Lexi Thompson [this week] is her integration with our sufferers and her desirous to help them as they help her,” stated Mel Bower, the Chief Communication and Advertising and marketing Officer for Shriners Hospitals for Youngsters, in an unique interview with Enjoying Via.
“Some gamers are fearful about, you recognize, all their sponsor logos and the way they’re offered accurately, and he or she gave us some carte blanche to let our sufferers want her nicely, signal their names, and provides some quotes and issues like that. Only a actually distinctive and particular expertise this week.”
The LPGA star was the discuss of the city in Las Vegas this week.
Not due to her excellent play, however due to her selflessness and her dedication to supporting an vital trigger.
Now that’s particular.
Jack Milko is a golf workers author for SB Nation’s Enjoying Via. You may comply with him on Twitter @jack_milko for extra golf protection. Make sure you take a look at @_PlayingThrough too.
