Kai Trump blunder minutes before LPGA Tour debut | Golf News

Before Kai Trump even teed off in her first LPGA Tour event, it was evident that she was not yet accustomed to the game’s greatest levels.

Trump, the 18-year-old granddaughter of the president, is collaborating in her first skilled event this week as a sponsor exemption in The Annika at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Florida.

Her first spherical did not precisely go as deliberate on Thursday, with a few minor missteps at the first tee box before she even had the possibility to hit her first ball. There was a sure ritual to how the seasoned LPGA Tour execs started their spherical, but Trump was clearly not privy to the protocol.

Trump was one of three gamers with a 12:31 tee time off the tenth gap at Pelican, but not like her opponents, she arrived at the tenth gap about 12 minutes early, just as the group forward of her was still being announced and teeing off.

As Saki Baba, Gurleen Kaur, and A Lim Kim had been beginning their spherical, a large contingent of Secret Service brokers started to occupy the tenth tee box. Meanwhile, Trump hugged her mother Vanessa – ex-wife of Donald Trump Jr. and girlfriend of Tiger Woods – and other members of her social gathering before slipping under the ropes just after the earlier group departed.

Trump was left awkwardly ready on the tee box, positioned on the left facet, until her taking part in companions joined her about 5 minutes forward of schedule.

Hinako Shibuno and Olivia Cowan arrived and took their locations on the fitting facet of the tee box a few yards behind the markers, as earlier teams had finished.

However, Trump and her caddie stayed on the other facet, virtually degree with where her opponents can be teeing off from.

Shibuno and Cowan then proceeded with their pre-round routine, greeting each other, Trump, and the group’s caddies before introducing themselves to the event official and volunteer scoreboard holder who would accompany the group throughout the spherical.

Trump appeared to miss the memo about that last half, ignoring the employees she’d be spending the next a number of hours with as she nervously regarded on.