It is safe to say that golf runs in the blood for Thompson.<\/p>\n
Her father Zac is a PGA professional who still coaches her today and previously worked with 2008 Open Championship runner-up Ian Poulter.<\/p>\n
She has spent endless hours training at Pavenham Park Golf Club, a course built by her father and grandfather after the family relocated to Bedford from Pembrokeshire.<\/p>\n
“I got in at 13, I tried every other sport and thought I’d give golf a go and I loved it,” she recalled. <\/p>\n
“Dad got me some clubs for my birthday and went from there really, I’ve really enjoyed it.<\/p>\n
She says hers parents have been her biggest inspiration growing up.<\/p>\n
“They taught me that the sky is my limit, to do what I want and if I have a passion for something they’re really helping me to pursue and encourage it.<\/p>\n
“I think it was really nice that dad didn’t push me into it, and I got myself into it.”<\/p>\n
Thompson also revealed some of the stories her dad would share about Poulter.<\/p>\n
“I get to hear a lot of stories on his mindset and it’s just incredible,” she added. <\/p>\n
“His path to where he’s got to today was a bit unconventional.<\/p>\n
“He would turn up for work at 16 put a trophy on the table, and then be like ‘One day I’m going to be on tour’, he really had belief.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is safe to say that golf runs in the blood for Thompson. Her father Zac is a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-507881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507881","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=507881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}