Golf Channel · Jun 23, 2023
Linn Grant has found silver lining after being barred from U.S. due to vaccination status
SPRINGFIELD N.J. — Linn Grant has established herself as one of the game’s best players — but she still feels like a rookie.
“Still feel like I'm out here to prove myself,” she said Friday at Baltusrol, “which I don't feel like it's a bad thing.”
This week at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, the 24-year-old, who sits four strokes off the lead at even par after two rounds, is making her first major start on American soil as a professional because she was barred from playing in the United States until last month due to her COVID-19 vaccination status.
However, in the past few years, she took an alternate path to success — and made the most of it.