Urgent phone call turned around my career, golfer Tiffany Chan says
- Said to have been close to quitting only months ago, the Hongkonger reunited with old coach Ian Godleman and flew to Australia to rebuild her game
- ‘I think she’s got four to five years now to probably achieve everything she wants to,’ Godleman says after Chan’s improved showing at Aramco event in Hong Kong
Away from the soggy headlines announcing the premature end of the Aramco Team Series’ stop in Hong Kong, and Janet Lin Xiyu’s monster putt to win a two-hole play-off, Tiffany Chan Tsz-ching was quietly going about her best finish in months.
The Hongkonger has struggled for the past two years on the LPGA Tour, and said at times she had been “feeling very helpless out there”, with missed or barely made cuts the rule not the exception.
According to several of those close to her, things had become so bad on and off the course that Chan was on the verge of quitting the game entirely just six months ago.
An information overload from numerous coaches and well-meaning others during Covid had ruined her swing, and the day-to-day life of a tour professional was taking its toll.
“It’s tough to be a tour pro,” Chan said. “I think a lot of people from Hong Kong don’t understand that, or even from all over the world. You see Full Swing on Netflix and it’s a little bit different from what normal people do.
