At US Women’s Open, one threesome will have a major Massachusetts flavor
Shannon Johnson, from Norton, will tee off with Megan Khang, from Rockland, and Brittany Altomare, who is from Shrewsbury.
When the 74th US Women’s Open golf championship begins at the Country Club of Charleston (S.C.) Thursday morning, one pairing will have particularly strong ties to Massachusetts.
Reigning Women’s Mid-Amateur champion Shannon Johnson of Norton is scheduled to tee off with LPGA players Megan Khang (Rockland) and Brittany Altomare (Shrewsbury) on the 10th hole at 7:33 a.m.
Johnson, 35, was born in South Dakota, played college golf at New Mexico and Indiana, then landed a job as a sales representative for Ping and moved to Norton six years ago. Johnson qualified for the Open by winning the Mid-Am last September.
Khang, 21, was born in Brockton and raised in Rockland, where she won a women’s club championship as a seventh grader. Since joining the LPGA Tour in 2016, she has played in 77 events, with 14 top 10 finishes and more than $1.5 million in earnings. This will be her seventh appearance (amateur and professional) in the US Women’s Open.
.@megan_khang1023‘s game plan? Stay patient.
Khang fired a 5-under 67 during Round 2 @CMEGroupLPGA
and is currently T8.Full interview –> pic.twitter.com/vtgE44yExA
— LPGA (@LPGA) November 16, 2018
Altomare, 28, grew up in Shrewsbury and played college golf at Virginia. She won the Symetra Tour’s Guardian Retirement Championship in 2016 and was runner-up in the 2017 Evian Championship and 2018 Buick LPGA Shanghai.
The trio will be part of a field of 150 golfers in the tournament, the second of five major championships on the LPGA schedule this year.
