Kai Trump, daughter of Donald Trump, Jr. and granddaughter of the president, is sort of the golfer. So it’s no shock that she is about to make her LPGA debut at The Annika subsequent month, earlier than she even begins school.
And what a prestigious begin! ESPN says The Annika “typically has one of the strongest fields of the year outside the majors.”
Did Kai qualify for this honor along with her previous golf performances? Is she a nationwide phenomenon? LOL, nope.
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Kai is there on a “sponsor’s exemption,” typically known as a “sponsor’s invitation,” and it’s precisely what it seems like: a flowery method of claiming that sponsors that present important backing to the event get to fill some slots that aren’t crammed by individuals who really certified. That may be somebody who simply missed the cutoff, somebody firstly or finish of an illustrious profession, or, apparently, it may be the granddaughter of the president.
For this 12 months’s The Annika, there have been three sponsor exemption slots. The opposite two folks chosen had been Wake Forest Senior Anne-Sterre den Dunnen and Northwestern All-American Lauryn Nguyen.
Who’re they, anyway? They’re most likely not so good as the nepograndkid, proper?
Effectively, den Dunnen obtained her invite as a result of she simply helmed Wake Forest to the Annika Intercollegiate Title earlier this 12 months. Earlier than attending Wake Forest, she received a number of nationwide and worldwide titles, together with the under-18 Italian women’ title.
Nguyen simply completed her school profession at Northwestern because the nationwide champion. In 4 years, she was a two-time All-American, a four-time All-Massive Ten, and a four-time Tutorial All-American.
Kai Trump, then again, has not but gone to varsity and is ranked 461 within the American Junior Golf Affiliation. She’s at 979 on the Common Golf Rankings’ junior women checklist. Her largest event look to date was the Sage Valley Junior Invitational, the place she completed final and shot 52 over par.
Chat, is 52 over par dangerous?
Effectively, a rating like that may imply a career-ending spherical for knowledgeable. Good factor she’s a Trump and doesn’t have to fret about issues like what numbers imply.
Nonetheless, as each press launch about this factor notes, Kai Trump did end third in a “South Florida PGA Srixon Medalist Tour” occasion. It is a regional junior tour, however they maintain dropping that half.
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However hey, isn’t it good that Kai will get a nepo slot at this event so she will be able to promote her new nepo video sequence and her nepo clothes line?
After all, Kai is pretending she is definitely certified to be right here, which is just about how all of the Trumps behave about the whole lot, pretending they’ve achieved one thing on benefit when really it’s both as a result of somebody fears them or is fawning over them.
“My dream has been to compete with the best in the world on the LPGA Tour. This event will be an incredible experience. I look forward [to] meeting and competing against so many of my heroes and mentors in golf as I make my LPGA Tour debut.”
Man, think about working onerous your entire younger golf-playing life to ascend via junior ranks and grueling school tournaments to search out out you’re paired with somebody who has barely cracked the highest 1,000 in junior rankings as a result of the president is her grandpa. Her grandpa who, it bears mentioning, gave the namesake of the event, Annika Sörenstam, the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Jan. 7, 2021, someday after his supporters stormed the Capitol.
Oh, effectively. Perhaps this shall be the place Kai begins to shine? But when not, maybe she will be able to simply get somebody to drop the ball in favorable positions for her, identical to they do for pricey previous granddad.
