Nobody was more motivated to make it through U.S. Women’s Open sectional qualifying this week than Karine Icher.
She took all the frustration she is feeling as a working mom and turned it into fuel.
Icher blazed her way through the qualifier at Rush Creek in Maple Grove, Minn. She routed the field, taking the lone spot available among the 35 entrants. The five-time LET winner and four-time Solheim Cup veteran from France won medalist honors by five shots.
Icher, 40, did this while still freshly smarting from the rejection she felt after the USGA turned down her request for a special maternity exemption, something like the ones Stacy Lewis and Brittany Lincicome were offered this year.