Editor’s note: This is the second part of a monthly series where Brynn Walker Collins describes her experiences in professional golf. Former University of North Carolina golfer Walker Collins competes on the Epson Tour, a circuit that provides top golfers access to the LPGA Tour. You can read the first part here.
I still vividly remember that day, when I first felt a sharp pain in my left shoulder while taking my bag off my back at the 2022 IOA Championships, an Epson tour in Beaumont, California. It was a minor inconvenience, and I didn’t think much of it at the time. I popped some Advil and continued to play through the event, hoping the pain would go away on its own. And for a while, I did.
But as soon as I got home and started training, the pain returned with a vengeance. I was a better kicker than ever before and quickly took a video to document the example of perfection in such a baffling game. I sent the video to my dad with the caption: “I got it.” Then, a few moments later, I didn’t have it. …