Who Is Cheyenne Woods? Golfer And Tiger Woods' Niece

Tiger Woods' niece Cheyenne Woods qualified for next month’s US Open on Monday. Woods got a 'little angry' during the game and later talked about her biggest mistakes of the day.

Cheyenne Woods made it to the US Open by qualifying at Spring Lake, NJ. Even though she successfully qualified, Woods credits the penalties she hit to be the biggest mistakes of the day. Woods had to take two penalty shots at the seventh hole for accidentally playing her partner's ball.

This two-stroke penalty came in as Woods took a blind second shot ending up in the rough next to the bunker. Later her partner pointed out that her own ball was green. That's when she realised that she had hit the wrong Titleist.

Pure brilliance today from @Cheyenne_Woods, who fired 2-under to become medalist at our @uswomensopen Qualifier at Spring Lake GC!

This will be her FIFTH appearance in the #USWomensOpen. See you at @TheOlympicClub! 💪 pic.twitter.com/LkXkXPDgnj

— NJSGA (@NJSGA1900) May 11, 2021

Cheyenne Woods about her penalty said, "Honestly, I feel like the penalty really dialled in my focus and got me a little angry, where I just wanted to just play my way in."

Here's what you must know about the golfer:

• The half-niece of Golfer Eldrick Tont Woods fondly known as Tiger Woods, Cheyenne Woods is also a professional golfer. Cheyenne in an interview said that her grandfather Earl Woods was her first coach and also the inspiration to enter golf.
• Cheyenne also shared in an interview that her mother Susan Woods is white and her father Earl Dennison Woods Jr. is an African American with some Native American and Asian.
• She played for her college's golf team and won back-to-back Arizona 5A State Championships in 2006 and 2007.
• In April 2011, she won the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) championship and turned professional in 2012 after graduating from Wake Forest.
• Cheyenne is the sixth African American to play in the LPGA tour. Her personal take on this is, "An African American woman has never won on the LPGA, so in general I just feel that golf needs to be more accessible and more inclusive."

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