Lizette Salas is the perfect champion at Donald Trump's U.S. Women's Open
There are so many stories - and scenarios - at this tournament! (She is 5 back at -1 to start today!)
Source: NJ.com, by Steve Politi
Lizette Salas is the daughter of Mexican immigrants, and her parents can think of no greater honor than to watch the LPGA player win the U.S. Women's Open this week.
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And, if you're a fan of schadenfreude, this is exactly the scenario you should want to see unfold this week in Bedminster: To have Salas not only win the championship, but to have Donald Trump -- the one who painted Mexican immigrants as "drug dealers, criminals and rapists" on his first day as a presidential candidate -- emerge from his exclusive skybox at his favorite golf course and hand her the trophy.
Now that would be the perfect ending to this week at Trump National. She would proudly accept it, even if she is one of the few LPGA players who have publicly spoken out against him.
"After last night, this country isn't what I thought it was," Salas tweeted the morning after the election. "I ask that the whole world pray for the citizens who still believe in morals."
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She said she wasn't surprised that the USGA didn't move this tournament given what was at stake, and she understands the people who believe she could have made a statement with a boycott.
But this is the championship she has dreamed about winning since she was that 7-year-old girl learning the sport. This is the moment that her parents, who will follow her around the course this week, sacrificed to make possible in the country they love.
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Read it all at: http://www.nj.com/sports/index.ssf/2017/07/lizette_salas_donald_trump_us_womens_open_column_p.html
