Caitlin Clark to switch to different sport in exciting WNBA offseason plans

Indiana Fever rookie defender Caitlin Clark is trading successful the tribunal for the links this offseason.

Clark revealed connected Monday that she'll beryllium participating successful the pro-am astatine The Annika driven by Gainbridge.

The LPGA play tourney held successful November adjacent Tampa, Florida, is named aft ten-time large victor Annika Sorenstam.

Not lone volition she beryllium taking her clubs astir the 18 holes, but she'll besides beryllium speaking astatine the tournament's Women's Leadership Summit sheet the time before.

'I emotion golf, truthful the accidental to play successful the pro-am for a tourney with a fable similar Annika Sorenstam's sanction connected it is truthful exciting,' Clark said successful a release. 

'Gainbridge is simply a person successful supporting women's sports, and that's wide done their committedness to me, this event, Billie Jean King, and Parity Week. 

'I'm looking guardant to seeing each the LPGA players connected the driving range, being portion of the Women's Leadership Summit, and, of course, teeing it up successful the pro-am with Annika.'

This is conscionable different transportation betwixt Clark and Gainbridge - the institution which holds the naming rights to the arena wherever the Fever play.

Clark has antecedently competed successful a pro-am lawsuit astatine the PGA Tour's John Deere Classic backmost successful 2023.

After a season-ending nonaccomplishment to the Connecticut Sun, Clark made it wide that she was looking guardant to getting retired connected the people more.

'I don't cognize what I'm going to bash the adjacent time - possibly play immoderate golf. That's what I'm going to bash - go a nonrecreational golfer.'

Clark has made nary concealed of her emotion for golf, agelong earlier she took the WNBA by storm. Speaking successful 2023 to Golf Digest, she said: 'That's what I was looking guardant to the astir with hoops ending.

'I inactive privation to beryllium progressive and bash something, truthful I'm going to spell to the play course. You tin wide your mind, bash thing you truly love, and person the bid and quiescent of conscionable your friends astir oregon adjacent conscionable yourself. I emotion being capable to flight world for a small bit.'