Former UNC star Catherine O'Donnell to tee off in US Women's Open

Posted Jun 19, 2014
When then-North Carolina freshman Catherine O’Donnell heard in 2009 that the U.S. Women’s Open was coming to Pinehurst No. 2, she called her father and told him she would play in it. Five years later, she called him from a qualifying tournament in Rumson, N.J. “She said, ‘Dad, I was the medallist,’” Michael O’Donnell said. (Durham Herald-Sun)

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