An emotional Ingrid Lindblad struggled badly after winning last year, and with a lot of work, she's hoping she's on the right path forward
Ingrind Lindblad started her rookie LPGA season with a victory, but struggled with the driver her knocked her off her game, and it's taken months for her to gain confidence back
TARZANA, Calif. — Ingrid Lindblad returned here to El Caballero Country Club, a place that was filled with smiles and celebration and exuberance one year ago. She came back with some of that same confidence that helped her win the JM Eagle LA Championship.
There are all those good memories from her first win as a rookie—in her fourth start on the LPGA Tour—but she also carries doubt, uncertainty and emotion this time around. Lindblad made a recent post last month about the struggles with her game and not knowing where the ball will go off the tee. She was raw, open and candid about those feelings for the first time in a news conference on Tuesday.
In front of a microphone, she answered about a dozen questions about the challenges she faces from why to how, but it was one anecdote that made her wipe away tears. She shot an 82 in finishing a tough round Saturday in February’s HSBC Women’s World Championship in a grouping with Stephanie Kyriacou when Kyriacou said something that made her question everything. Kyriacou simply said she’d see Lindblad the next day.
“I was like, ‘I'm not sure I want to come to the golf course tomorrow,’ Lindblad said, her eyes welling with tears recalling that conversation. “I did, which I'm very happy about. But it was hard.
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