Malene Krolboll Hansen created a list of pros and cons before she decided to attend Coastal Carolina on a golf scholarship in 2014.
At the top of the cons list was the distance Coastal is from her family in Denmark. More than 4,000 miles is a daunting number for a teenager about to leave home.
But she also had an unwritten list of goals in life, and attending an American university was going to facilitate those. So she took the leap.
“It’s a long way,” Hansen said. “In the end I want to be a pro golfer and I want to live of golf someday.