Brigitte Thibault will be the only Canadian in the field for the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur.
Even though Brigitte Thibault’s parents Josee and Daniel had been avid golfers for decades, she was never really interested in the sport until watching the Masters with her family in 2005. It was then, watching Tiger Woods’s miraculous chip-in on the 16th green at Augusta National Golf Club, that golf started to grip her.
"I’m not sure what triggered me to really start playing golf. It was so sudden and I feel like someone just took me and said ‘this is going to be your future’ because now all I see is that." Thibault was therefore surprised when she was leaving the gym on Jan. 17 and got a call from an anonymous number. It was a tournament official offering her a spot at the elite amateur event.
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