Caitlin Clark has been hit with criticism for her {golfing} exploits after she joked about changing into a ‘skilled golfer’.
When requested about her low season plans following the Indiana Fever’s WNBA playoff elimination, Clark joked: “I will grow to be knowledgeable golfer.”
Not too long ago, Clark took classes from Martha Lobby Faulconer to compete within the LPGA Professional-Am, and this week she appeared on the inexperienced alongside Nelly Korda and Annika Sorenstam.
However after a video emerged of Clark enjoying, one other video appeared on-line of UConn Huskies head coach Geno Auriemma criticizing her.
He stated within the video: “If you’re a basketball participant, however only a leisure golfer, like Caitlin is… the delusional fan base that follows her disrespects the LPGA golfers by pondering she might go into this event and do something.
“There are literally followers that suppose she will make birdies, and even pars. These persons are so disrespectful and so unknowledgeable and so silly that it offers girls’s golf a nasty title. So the child is ready up for failure proper from the start,”
He added: “She’s bought the unsuitable ability set to deal with the physicality of the LPGA. She does not have the brief sport, the space, the accuracy. This child’s in for a impolite awakening and once they invite her to the ninth gap at 9 tonight, she and that delusional fan base will get the whole lot that is coming to them.”
Questions over the video
In line with some on-line, the video could also be AI generated, with the footage showing to be closely doctored. Lots of the feedback Auriemma made seem to match his earlier statements from June on the Dan Patrick Present. There are additionally huge glitches within the video that recommend it is probably not actual.
Auriemma had talked about Clark‘s ‘delusional followers’ throughout his look on Dan Patrick, and it appears the identical video has been doctored to make it seem like he’s speaking about golf.
On the inexperienced itself, Clark had her miscues, however she additionally hit a protracted putt on the fifth and holed a par.
“She was simply actually having fun with it. You may inform like she is unquestionably very gifted. She was choosing the ball actually clear off, she was dropping a few photographs to the proper,” stated Korda of Clark’s efficiency.
In the meantime, Clark makes no bones concerning the reality she remains to be inexperienced within the spot, saying not too long ago of her talents: “I am sturdy, and I can hit it. It simply often does not go straight.”
