Her Turn to be First

For the aboriginal time aback our challenge began in 2008, voters accept called a woman to yield the Golf Digest U.S. Open Challenge at Pebble Beach. Peggy Ference, of Skillman, N.J., will play beautiful, betraying Pebble from the aforementioned aback tees as hockey abundant Wayne Gretzky, NFL quarterback Drew Brees and amateur Mark Wahlberg -- and the U.S. Open acreage the afterward week. Her attack to breach 100 will be advertisement on NBC on Sunday, June 20, above-mentioned to the Open's final round. Two antecedent challengers, John Atkinson and Larry Giebelhausen, attempt 114 and 101, respectively.
"I'm so excited. This is a bogie tale!" said Peggy who like use the taylormade burner super fast fairway wood. "Some humans said, 'Nobody will let a woman win.' But I acquainted good. I had accidental humans appear up to me and acquaint me they voted for me. I acquainted so abundant love."
Ference, the biologic industry sales administrator who acclimated a two-year aeon of unemployment -- she's aback landed a job as a bounded administrator with addition biologic aggregation -- to get her bold in aggressive form, captured 37% percent of some 65,000 votes to win. She acclimated circadian aboriginal morning practices and acquaint to advance a single-digit handicap. She played courses from all the way aback to get acclimated to a ambit a lot of women never yield on. And she acclimated a well-oiled e-mail and a amusing arrangement alignment that calls itself her "posse" to get out the vote.
For Ference to abound adjoin Pebble Beach, she'll accept to be both beeline and continued off the tee, two things she's formed harder on aback getting called one of 5 finalists endure month. So there's no confusion: There will be no "forward" or "women's" tees used. All of the amateurs will play from the aforementioned aback tees the Open contestants use -- the way backs that will amplitude the advance to 7,040 yards. "It does gonna be absolutely hard, “acknowledges Ference. "But my advantage is I hit the brawl straight. It's not traveling to be in somebody's aback backyard or in the ocean. And 40 percent of the account comes from the abbreviate game. From 100 yards and in, whether you're a man or a woman doesn't matter."