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Not long to wait for LPGA glory for Pinay’s rookie
Dante Navarro (Philstar.com) – September 24, 2020 – 1:49 pm
MANILA, Philippines – Forget your finals, they’re not much of a concern at this early stage of your rookie campaign. But focus on its duration, which has impacted your play in all four LPGA Tour tournaments.
Bianca Pagdanganan has time and again played down her immense power, a gift she has perfected and developed since she bought a set of plastic (golf) clubs out of curiosity about her father’s sport at age seven.
She would become a top-tier player that she is today, although she knows that she still has a lot to learn, expressing her willingness and willingness to enter the process to improve her craft, particularly in the other aspects of her game, and reach a highly competitive level. competitive.
“You start to realize that there are other parts of your game that you need to polish,” Pagdanganan said in another full article on Golfweek this week.
In fact, Laura Ianello, her coach at Univ. Of Arizona, sees a bright and lucrative future for her neighborhood sooner rather than later.
“Bianca is eventually going to make a lot of money from the LPGA once she can hit those numbers with her short irons,” Ianello said.
The double SEA Games gold medalist, who posted an NCAA record of 61 to help propel the Wildcats to the 2018 championship, has made the cut in her first four LPGA tournaments, though her best result was tied. ranked 28th at the Drive On Championship in Inverness. in Toledo, Ohio, it’s something you shouldn’t be proud of.
But time, to get better and better, is definitely on your side.
At just 22 years old, Pagdanganan currently leads the LPGA in driving distance with a norm of 287,462 yards, four yards better than former No. 1 Maria Fassi of Mexico on the LPGA stat list and another yard more than Anne Van Dam of Holland.
Ianello points to what she described as Pagdanganan’s “incredibly” fast hips and land use as the keys to her power, though the Filipino ace would insist she does so without “trying to force anything.”
That should make it that much scarier.
While still with the Arizona Wildcats, Pagdanganan played alongside Angel Yin in the first two rounds of the Marathon Classic and routinely beat her 10 to 20 yards, according to Ianello, who carried the bag for the first that week.
It was clear that Pagdanganan, who also carries his 3 wood to 245 yards, would be among the longest, if not the longest, of the tour.
“I literally try to hit him as hard as I can and he goes far,” he said. “I think the reason, they say, is the delay in my swing.”
A reserve entry in next week’s Shoprite LPGA Classic in New Jersey, Pagdanganan is among the starters at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, one of the five LPGA majors, October 8-11 at the Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania and the 2017 Philippine. The Ladies Open champion can’t wait to flaunt her vaunted power and improved short game – and deliver.
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