A change of heart for the LPGA’s Julia Boland
Julia Boland is not, in her own words, crazy about golf. When she arrived on the LPGA Tour in 2013, she couldn’t identify more than a handful of players—those she had played with in college and her Hall of Fame countrywoman, Karrie Webb. Beyond that, even if you’d won a major, Boland had no idea who you were. How could she? She refuses to watch Golf Channel.
Hailing from Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia, Boland grew up as many Aussies do: in love with sports. But the interest was as much personal as national for a girl who was the youngest of four children. “I just wanted something where I could compete against my siblings,” she says.
In her small hometown, golf was truly popular, but you were not allowed to tee it up on the course until you were 12 years old. “It always killed me that my siblings were out playing and I didn’t have the opportunity. So when I finally turned 12, it was like, Wow! I finally get to play this awesome sport.”
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