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without a right foot and a slight case of spina bifida, went .This event is only going to grow and we’re going to have
wire-to-wire last July to win the overall women's division. kids looking up to us one day.”
She has served as the head golf coach for the Western
Michigan University women's golf team since 2020. Lee was The championship is open to both male and female
diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum at a young age professional and amateur golfers with a World Handicap
and, last year, earned the overall men's division victory after System™ Handicap Index of 36.4 or less and an eligible
defeating Felix Norrman of Sweden in a playoff. He will impairment confirmed by a WR4GD Pass. The impairment
compete in the intellectual impairment category. categories are as follows:
x Arm Impairment
Kipp Popert, 24, of England, who was diagnosed with a form x Intellectual Impairment
of cerebral palsy called Spastic diplegia, is currently the x Leg Impairment
No.1 golfer in the World Ranking for Golfers with Disability x Multiple Limb Amputee
(WR4GD) and will be competing in his second U.S. Adaptive x Neurological Impairment
Open in the neurological impairment category. Last year he x Seated Players
finished fourth overall in the men's division and won the x Short Stature
neurological impairment category to earn his spot in this x Vision Impairment
year's U.S. Adaptive Open. The championship will be contested over 54 holes of stroke
play. Multiple sets of tees will be utilized. Carts will be
“Competing in the inaugural U.S. Adaptive Open was an permitted for all players and caddies. The 96-player field is
absolute thrill and I’m honored to be in this year’s field,” as follows:
said Popert. “I’ve been lucky enough to play in several top-
tier championships and the USGA hosts this event with the Mi Kyong Kim, of Republic of Korea, 56, Leg Impairment
same attention to detail as they do the U.S. Amateur. I’m Simon Lee, of Republic of Korea, 25, Intellectual
excited for everyone to experience that. Impairment

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