Caitlin Clark wants to play golf and the LPGA is on board

Caitlin Clark The WNBA’s historic first season has come to an endcapping a remarkable year for America’s new sports hero. Getting your college team to the NCAA title game and your professional team to the playoffs, all while serving as a gateway to a whole new wave of fans, is a real burden and, unsurprisingly, Clark is exhausted.

When asked about her offseason plans, Clark offered an interesting answer. “I don’t know what I’m going to do tomorrow, I don’t know what I’m going to do the next day,” Clark said after the Fever were eliminated from the playoffs. “Maybe play golf. That’s what I’m going to do until it gets too cold in Indiana. Then I figured it out. I’m going to be a professional golfer.”

She was joking… wasn’t she? Surely even hyper-competitive and athletically gifted Caitlin Clark can’t take up golf in the offseason…right?

Clark gained an important ally in her quest to reach the links: the LPGA, which happily responded to Clark’s wishes on Thursday.

The LPGA has seen two periods of dominance this season, one from Nelly Korda and a more recent one from Lydia Ko, but has not been able to translate that into a breakthrough. like the WNBA did with Clark. Indiana Fever regularly sold out theaters and attracted millions of viewers thanks to Clark; the LPGA would love to have some of that kind of good PR.

Now, no one seriously thinks Clark could become a professional golfer in the next few months; It’s all fun. There are plenty of basketball players who are excellent golfers (Steph Curry), half-decent (Michael Jordan), and, well, others (Charles Barkley), but the gap between professional golf and other sports is vast and unbridgeable . But hey, if Clark can change the trajectory of an entire sport in a single season, you never know…