RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Ally McDonald started the weekend as the highest L.P.G.A. Could she become the second consecutive player, after Pernille Lindberg, to make the year’s first major her first L.P.G.A. Back in Mississippi, her home state, the players who competed against McDonald in high school know better than to discount her chances. McDonald, 26, competed on the boys’ team because there wasn’t enough interest to field a girls’ squad. There were a few exceptions, said McDonald, who went on to star at Mississippi State, “but as a whole, the guys that I was surrounded by always respected me.”

Source: New York Times April 06, 2019 22:07 UTC