Ong will have the support on course of her father, though her mum will be staying at home as her two sisters are preparing for school exams.<\/p>\n
But there are still important decisions to be made, like who will caddy for her at Riviera, and other logistical issues to settle.<\/p>\n
“We’re in the middle of our college season, so I’m trying to wrap my head around it [the US Open] and also prepare for other tournaments at the same time,” she said.<\/p>\n
“You have to ground yourself because you can’t keep thinking about all these things when you’ve got another tournament, which you’ve got to play for your team.”<\/p>\n
At the Open, however, she will be going solo and is relishing the challenge ahead.<\/p>\n
She added: “This time I’m doing it just for me and just for the experience. There’s not really any pressure because I haven’t really got any massive expectation for myself.<\/p>\n
“I’m just trying to have a good time and if I play great, then good and if I don’t, then I’ll move on to the next tournament knowing I’ve had an amazing experience playing in a major.<\/p>\n
“I think this is going to be super fun. I just want to take as much out of this as possible.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ong will have the support on course of her father, though her mum will be staying at home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-580564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}