Worn President of the US Barack Obama joined the golf world by congratulating Allisen Corpuz on her U.S. Females’s Launch victory.
“Congratulations to fellow Hawaiian Allisen Corpuz for a hit the U.S. Females’s Launch,” Obama acknowledged in a tweet. “You variety us all proud — and count on a spherical at Kapolei!”
The Hawaiian native turned the principle U.S. Females’s Launch winner since 2016 when Brittany Lang won it. She joined Michelle Wie West as the one other Hawaiian to make a selection up this historic event. Wie West won it in 2014 at Pinehurst.
This triumph was once additionally the 2022 LPGA Rookie of the one year’s first skilled make a selection up.
Congratulations to fellow Hawaiian Allisen Corpuz for a hit the U.S. Females’s Launch! You variety us all proud — and count on a spherical at Kapolei!
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 10, 2023
Corpuz posted a 9-underneath to beat the self-discipline by three strokes. She turned the principle lady to make a selection up a necessary championship at Pebble Seashore. The 25-one year-extinct additionally took dwelling the finest register LPGA historical past, earning a $2 million prize.
It didn’t topic if the files officers attach her on the clock for slack play or if she made a bogey, nothing bought her out of the zone.
Corpuz will maintain her title on the wall of the clubhouse alongside Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods, who each and each won majors on the enduring golf route.
“Tiger dazzling completely annihilated this location [in 2000]. Yeah, it’s surely special,” Corpuz acknowledged to the USGA. “Twenty, 30 years from now, I ponder dazzling the fact that it’s a U.S. Launch reach loads to me, but luminous that it’s at Pebble makes it even sweeter.”
To get a tweet from Obama has to be memorable, but for him to be from the identical reveal makes it valuable extra special. He even invited Corpuz for a spherical of golf.
