LANCASTER, Pa. – It took a player nicknamed “Dumbo” to unlock the secrets of architect William Flynn’s masterpiece.
South Korea’s In Gee Chun won the U.S. Women’s Open Sunday at Lancaster Country Club in her first appearance in this championship, but she didn’t do so with dumb luck.
Chun didn’t earn her nickname because she’s slow of wit. In fact, it’s just the opposite. Chun is reported to have been a math prodigy as a child.
Playing Flynn’s hidden gem here in southeastern Pennsylvania, with all its doglegs and its pitched greens, was as much a geometry test as it was a test of golf, with all the angles a player had to negotiate.