{"id":224265,"date":"2025-10-19T09:29:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T09:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/224265\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T09:29:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T09:29:17","slug":"caitlin-clark-makes-hilarious-promise-to-fans-ahead-of-2025-lpga-pro-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/224265\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark makes hilarious promise to fans ahead of 2025 LPGA Pro-Am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a disappointing second season which saw her play in only 13 games due to injuries, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/caitlin-clark\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Fever<\/a> guard Caitlin Clark announced to fans that she will be back in action in a few days.<\/p>\n<p>But the action this time will see Clark on the golf course rather than on the basketball court.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 Rookie of the Year revealed that she will play in The Annika Pro-Am tournament holding at the Pelican Golf Club in Florida next month.<\/p>\n<p>It will also be her second time in the event hosted by golf legend Annika Sorenstam, as Clark played alongside Sorenstam and fellow icon Nelly Korda last year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Caitlin-Clark-26571639.jpg\" alt=\"Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark\" class=\"wp-image-1318706\"  \/>Credit: Jesse Johnson-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the competition, the Fever star made a hilarious promise to fans on her Instagram story on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill try not to hit anyone \ud83d\ude4f,\u201d she captioned the post.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"638\" height=\"1150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot_20251017-123523.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1345925\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Given her innate competitiveness, Clark will likely try to take home the championship, which comes with a hefty $3.25 million prize money. And not hitting anyone while at it sounds like a good plan too.<\/p>\n<p>Clark\u2019s participation in The Annika Pro-Am last year attracted huge crowds, as her popularity continued to soar even outside the WNBA.<\/p>\n<p>Last season was a dismal campaign for <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/caitlin-clark\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caitlin Clark<\/a> as she struggled with recurring injuries for the first time ever to her quad, groin, and ankle. Not only that, Clark was also at the center <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/wnba\/wnba-cathy-engelbert-caitlin-clark-controversy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">of comments allegedly made by WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert<\/a> over players\u2019 salaries.<\/p>\n<p>However, she will be hoping to use this competition to restart on a clean slate while looking forward to emerging stronger in her third league season.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img alt=\"avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/802c3003547685b578fd7f4e8a81a7dbe8d1cf2e4c476dec63817c479fdb718f\"  class=\"avatar avatar-70 photo\" height=\"70\" width=\"70\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\tSince  his  first  foray  into  online  journalism  in  2019,  Peter  Okereke  has  written  widely  on  Entertainment  and  Pop  Culture  &#8230; More about <a class=\"more-bio\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/author\/peter-okereke\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Okereke<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a disappointing second season which saw her play in only 13 games due to injuries, Indiana Fever&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,735,48,82,1276,630],"class_list":["post-224265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-sports-entertainment","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}