It should be quite a week for Greer’s Haley Stephens, who found out last week that she’d moved from alternate status to entrant in this week’s U.S. Women’s Open.
What I found stunning about her story is that she’s only played the game competitively for four years. She was avid in other sports but determined her real love was on the course and her she is at age 18 getting ready to stroll in the same fairways as some of the game’s current greats.
For the Thornblade Club it’s yet another notch in what’s become quite a ring of champions.
For Stephens, whose bound for the legendary women’s program at Texas, it’s the opportunity to continue an incredible story on a national stage and give notice that her home course isn’t the home to just top-flight men’s players.
On another matter, the ACC reversed course this week and pulled its baseball tournament for 2011 through 2013 from Myrtle Beach, citing the Confederate flag issue.
The league commissioner John Swofford said it was his understanding that the appropriate discussions had taken place ahead of time with those who are at odds with the issue that all parties would be satisfied with South Carolina being awarded the event.
Either the commissioner was fed some bad information at the start or he didn’t properly do his homework. If it’s the former, then heads should roll at the league office. If it was an oversight on his part then he should offered more than the terse statement he did Monday.
To me it seems that the only times we hear about the flag issue any more is when it blocks a sporting event from coming to the state.
It would be nice if someone in leadership---maybe the next governor or someone of significant stature in the state---could sit down those who would provide voices from all sides and arrive at a point where we can avoid moments like Monday.
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