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Megan Schofill holds the Robert Cox Trophy on the iconic hole ten bridge after winning the 2023 U.S. Women's Amateur at Bel-Air Country Club in Los Angeles, Calif. on Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023. It’s a cool, misty afternoon, lightning flashing off in the distance, and Megan Schofill has only got about 30 minutes to finish drills at the Auburn golf practice facility.
It’s a town small enough that everyone seemingly knew each other and that’s not just some cliche. Delivery drivers, teachers and golf pros alike. Megan played sports year-round as a kid — softball and basketball in particular — but her dad Billy Schofill always brought her to the golf course. Billy was just a casual golfer. He let Megan and her sister Ashley drive the golf cart. He let them hit his putts from time to time and play in the bunkers as if they were a sandbox at the playground.
As she got closer to high school, Megan said he began to play daily. She wanted to be in events her friends were competing in. Once she saw she had worked hard enough to compete statewide in Florida, Megan began thinking about playing in college. Luellen actually hadn’t heard this story until before the start of the 2023 season, she said in a press conference. The story itself has a few different sides, but it all ends in a parking lot after an Auburn golf camp where Luellen told Megan she wasn’t good enough to play at Auburn. She wanted to bring players to Auburn that could help her team win immediately, and that wasn’t Megan.
Jackson said he would stay in touch with Ricky Smallridge, a former PGA Tour player with Jackson and current Auburn professor in the School of Kinesiology. He updated him on Megan’s growing success in high school tournaments as she got older. Jackson said Smallridge would pass on the news to Luellen.
“Well coach, that’s just not how I play,” Luellen recalls Megan saying. “I like to go for every pin.”Slowly, Megan learned to use a sticker in her yardage book that denotes what to do with her approach shots. She does it religiously now. Luellen said Megan complains when younger players don’t use the tool, and Luellen reminds her she didn’t use it right away either.
Megan is quite superstitious, and Luellen worried Megan wouldn’t want her there. But she wasn’t going to miss this. Luellen and her husband raced to Atlanta, boarded the plane and landed in Los Angeles around what would have been 4 a.m. central time.She walked the 36-hole finale with Megan as she began to take a lead over LSU’s Latanna Stone on the first 18. With a comfortable lead, the second set of 18 holes was essentially played on cruise control.
Look closely at the Robert Cox Trophy. It’s bent. But Billy Schofill didn’t know that until he saw it in person. He’d heard rumors about the lean, but of course, there’s the worry it was damaged in transit. It wasn’t.
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