She changed clubs over the winter and it’s been an adjustment. “She just started spitting fire the first tournament,” said Castle of Frye’s share of sixth in her first event, the Blessings Collegiate Invitational.īorst said the way Frye played last fall, she could’ve won every week. 2,191 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings. Though that is far from the case this year.Ĭastle, whose strengths are short game and putting, said she gets plenty of motivation from Frye’s continued rise, describing her as an underdog when she walked on campus. “I obviously went into ANWA with no expectations,” she said. “For a five-day stretch I couldn’t get out of bed I was throwing up so much,” she said.Ĭastle will carry that thankful attitude into Augusta, where she was just getting over the flu last year when she arrived in Georgia fresh off an 81 at the Clemson Invitational. Castle didn’t realize right away how much she’d injured herself and immediately went out and played volleyball for three hours. She’s still riding a high of gratefulness after slipping in the shower in January and being forced to sit out for month with a concussion. “This is what I live for,” said Castle of the crammed schedule that leads up to Augusta and beyond. Castle, who is in the midst of five consecutive top-10 finishes for the Wildcats, graduated last December with a degree in marketing and plans to stay a fifth year to finish her master’s in marketing management. Women’s Amateur and finished T-12 at last year’s ANWA.īorst said the team recently came home on a redeye to find someone standing at baggage claim asking Castle to take a picture with his daughter. “They took a chance on me,” said Castle, who won the 2021 U.S. Her other option was the University of Indianapolis, a decorated Division II school. Castle committed to the Wildcats 29 days before she signed. While Frye grew up in Lexington and a had a grandfather who played golf for the Wildcats, Castle, 22, says “never in a million years” did she think she’d end up at Kentucky. “Dang it, I want to get here,” said Frye, who qualified for her first Women’s Open the next year at Pine Needles. Frye thinks she was more nervous than Castle that week, but seeing the best in the world up close inside the ropes gave Frye the belief she could do it, too. It wasn’t all that long ago that a wide-eyed Frye stood on the first tee at The Olympic Club where she was caddying for teammate Jensen Castle at the 2021 U.S. Jensen Castle is honored at the Kentucky-Florida football game for winning the U.S. “So I’ve been working on that quite a bit, little TrackMan games, dialing in my carry numbers has been huge.” “He told me the most underrated quality people that do well there have is great distance control with their approach shots,” said Frye. Scott won the Masters with Scheffler last year and twice before with Bubba Watson. She’s not certain who will caddie for her at Champions Retreat (site of the first two rounds) and Augusta National, though Scott is possibility. At a recent practice round at Augusta National, Frye hit 7-iron into the par-5 13th for her second shot and 6-iron into the par-5 15th. That power will come in handy for Frye when she tees it up next week in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur for the first time. Kentucky’s Laney Frye recently unlocked an explosion of power off the tee working with PGA Tour caddie Ted Scott. “It’s a different stratosphere when she hits it,” said Kentucky head coach Golda Borst, who notes that Frye can now get close to 290. In February, when the Wildcats teed it up in the UCF Challenge, Frye was stunned to find herself hitting driver, wedge on nearly every par 4. She said Scott didn’t teach the move saying this is going to add more distance to your game. The Kentucky junior added more weight shift and rotation and got up to 110 mph that first day, tacking on nearly 30 extra yards off the tee. 1 Scottie Scheffler, showed Frye how to create more width early in her downswing.įrye, 20, went home to Lexington with the new move and saw that she was cruising at 105 mph on TrackMan. It was there that Scott, a longtime PGA Tour caddie who currently works for World No. Last fall during the PGA Tour’s CJ Cup at Congaree Golf Club in Ridgeland, South Carolina, Laney Frye made her way over from Kentucky to meet with her swing coach, Ted Scott. Top 50 Modern Courses in Great Britain & Ireland.Top 50 Classic Courses in Great Britain & Ireland.
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