INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA | If you didn’t know her, you’d never know. Amy Olson remains as sweet as any person in or out of golf. You’d never know that this cold, windy Thursday at the LPGA KEB Hana Bank Championship was her first competitive round since the hooked tee shot, the bad lay-up shot and the three-putt double bogey at the Evian Championship, a final-hole throw-up after 71 of the best holes of her career. Olson, who remains winless in five years on tour, lost that major championship by one shot to Angela Stanford.
Ten days later, she was feeding pulled pork to the linebacker corps at Indiana State where her husband, Grant, is a position coach for the Sycamores. “Oh my goodness,” Olson told me on the short bus ride from Sky72 Golf Club’s Ocean Course to the hotel near Incheon airport. “I bought 30 pounds of pork thinking, well, whatever they don’t eat, we’ll just freeze it. Eight of them ate every bit of it, 30 pounds of pork. I couldn’t fill them up.”
That dinner took place as Olson was packing for South Korea, where she hoped this event would exorcise the memories from the last.
