DUXBURY, Mass. – To earn a trip to an iconic American destination, you needed to speak a foreign language Wednesday at Duxbury Yacht Club.
Not officially, mind you, but surely it felt like International Day was being celebrated as an assortment of women, from young amateurs to veteran professionals challenged to earn spots into the field at the U.S. Women’s Open July 6-9 at Pebble Beach Golf Links on the Monterey Peninsula.
If you don’t think the last words to that sentence was the key reason players flocked to Duxbury Yacht Club, then you needed to speak to Perrine Delacour of France after trips of 67-68 for 9-under 135 earned medalist honors.
“I can’t wait,” said the 29-year-old who has carved out an admirable LPGA career, though never did that include success at these 36-hole qualifiers.
“The other U.S. Women’s Open I played in was the COVID year and there was no qualifier,” she explained. Indeed, that year the USGA stuck to a pandemic-enforced protocol and simply picked its U.S. Women’s Open field off the LPGA points list.