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LPGA Tour: Hong Kong’s Tiffany Chan hoping her love affair brings titles – and an Olympic gold

  • The 25-year-old hopes the game loves her back as she starts her second year on the leading women’s golf tour

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Tiffany Chan making her historic appearance at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. Photo: AFP

To most people, this would be a sacrifice. But to Hong Kong’s leading golfer, Tiffany Chan Tsz-ching, giving up a social life and the prospect of romance is par for the course.

Chan lives, breathes, eats and sleeps golf. She can afford no distractions – even if that means “hanging out with friends and guys” – in her quest to become the best in the world.

That is a big dream for a girl from Hong Kong, which has produced only a handful of world-class athletes – and none in golf.

She thought it would be easy to survive her groundbreaking first year on the LPGA Tour but was taught a lesson on how much more she had to learn – and how far she has to go.

After that humbling rookie year and being forced to go back to Q School to retain her card, she now knows what it will take after closely watching the likes of Ariya and Moriya Jutanugarn, the Thai sister act.

It’s a combination of the obvious, including practice, preparation, routine, course strategy, swing, fitness, health, focus, luck and self discipline, and arguably the most difficult, the mental machinations.

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