When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States last spring, University of South Alabama women's golfer Belinda May faced a difficult decision. Stay in the United States and finish out the semester at South Alabama or immediately return home to her native New Zealand?
May and her Jaguar teammates had just wrapped up play at the UNF Collegiate in Jacksonville, Fla., on March 10 when news of what was happening with the coronavirus began to slowly spread.
"We were watching the practice round at The Players Championship," May recalled. "While we were watching it, there was a lot of talk about coronavirus, but we were unsure about what was happening.