{"id":21220,"date":"2016-07-04T14:29:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T14:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/cheyenne-woods-the-burden-of-a-surname\/"},"modified":"2016-07-04T14:29:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T14:29:29","slug":"cheyenne-woods-the-burden-of-a-surname","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/cheyenne-woods-the-burden-of-a-surname\/","title":{"rendered":"CHEYENNE WOODS&#8230; THE BURDEN OF A SURNAME&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\\\" p1=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"%5C%22images\/stories\/Reportajes\/Cheyennewoods.jpg%5C%22\" border=\"\\\"0\\\"\" style=\"\\\"line-height:\" float:=\"\" left=\"\">\\<strong>\u201cNow people can say I\u2019m not just a surname,\u201d<\/strong> said Cheyenne Woods \u2013 23 years old and Tiger Woods\u2019 niece (daughter of the world number one\u2019s half-brother) \u2013 after winning the first major title of her career as a professional golfer, the Australian Ladies Masters, a Ladies European Tour event held at Royal Pines Resort Gold Coast in Queensland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\\\" p2=\"\">The victory served to provide Cheyenne with her own identity, after spending her entire, albeit still short, career linked by family to the sport\u2019s leading male golfer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\\\" p1=\"\">Cheyenne closed with a four-under 69 at RACV Royal Pines Resort in Queensland\u2019s Gold Coast to finish at 16-under 276. Australian amateur Minjee Lee, 17, also shot 69 to finish two strokes back in solo second place on 14-under-par. It\u2019s the best result in Woods\u2019 two-year professional career, with the interest in the granddaughter of superstar Tiger Woods resulting in the American Golf Channel taking the final two hours of the broadcast live into the United States. Woods was absolutely elated with her win: <strong>\\\u201dThis is a huge accomplishment for me.\u201d<\/strong>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"\\\" p1=\"\">\\\u201dThe Ladies European Tour has been great to be able to play this last year, I\u2019ve been able to see all of these great players, play with Solheim Cup members, so I\u2019ve learned so much from all of these girls and to be able to come out here and actually compete with them and come out on top was huge for me.\\\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\\\" p1=\"\">Encouraging words from her coach before she left for Australia boosted her confidence. \\All off season I was just getting ready with my coach back home and he told me he thinks that this is my year, my time to finally get a win and to have it this early in the season is exciting, especially with European Tour and then here in Australia. I\u2019m just really proud with how I played this week and followed through all four days and finished strong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\\\" p1=\"\">Woods turned professional in 2012 after an All-America career at Wake Forest and her only previous pro victory came in 2012 in a SunCoast mini-tour event. In December, she missed the cut in the LPGA Tour\u2019s qualifying tournament in a failed bid to earn a spot on the circuit. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\\\" p1=\"\"><strong>\u201dI\u2019ve been pro for two years and, for the majority of it, people just think of me as Tiger Woods\u201d<\/strong> niece, so now I have a game of my own and I have a title now, a win, which is exciting,\u201d she said. \u201dIt\u2019s nice now to say to people that I can play and I\u2019m not just a name. Growing up with the last name of Woods, there\u2019s a lot of expectations and pressure and spotlight on you but I always knew that I was able to win. I always knew I\u2019d be able to compete with these ladies, so now it\u2019s kind of a weight off my shoulders because now everybody knows not just me.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"\\\" p1=\"\">Woods earned $51,000 and a twoyear exemption on the Ladies European Tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias-generales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}