WNBA star Caitlin Clark's new coach makes feelings clear on trying different sport

Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark has been preparing for the LPGA Tour's The Annika lawsuit by taking play lessons - and she has already impressed her coach

Caitlin Clark has been praised by her caller play manager aft taking a acquisition to heighten her skills connected the green. The 22 twelvemonth aged is an unfastened enthusiast of golf and participated successful the John Deere Classic pro-am anterior to joining the WNBA.

Many of her peers person joined the Unrivaled League during the off-season to summation their net and support their signifier for the upcoming season. However, Clark is taking a hiatus from hoops to prosecute 1 of her different interests.

She's an avid golfer and is gearing up to enactment successful the pro-am astatine The Annika, the second-to-last lawsuit connected the LPGA Tour. She volition spouse with big Annika Sorenstam and Nelly Korda astatine the tournament, which is scheduled for adjacent period astatine the Pelican Golf Club successful Florida.

In mentation for the event, Clark honed her plaything successful a acquisition with Martha Foyer-Faulconer, who was connected the LPGA circuit from 1987 to 1995. Foyer-Faulconer was impressed by Clark's quality to marque accelerated adjustments and said it had been a pleasurable session.

"Within the clip we were working, we saw immoderate drastic changes," Foyer-Faulconer told Golfweek. "It's besides portion of her DNA due to the fact that she's going to bash things well," reports the Express. "She wants to beryllium arsenic bully arsenic she tin successful everything she touches. She's precise driven and passionate. It's amusive to enactment with her."

Foyer-Faulconer tweaked Clark's stance, positioning her somewhat further from the shot and advising her to loosen up her shoulders. They began with wedge shots to cleanable the method earlier progressing to drivers, sending balls soaring down the fairway.

The ex-LPGA prima was impressed by Clark's innate ability, remarking: "Some of this worldly you can't thatch people. They conscionable either person it oregon they don't."

Before heading backmost to bid with the Indiana Fever successful April, Clark is acceptable to walk ample clip connected the greens. She has antecedently shared her passionateness for play with Golf Digest, highlighting its therapeutic benefits: "You tin wide your mind, bash thing you truly emotion 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."