
'We are this good': Swedish golf's rising star hopes history-making win will be watershed moment for women's game
CNN
The first-ever female winner on the DP World Tour, Linn Grant wants her success to help women's golf take another step forward.
Clamoring for anything and everything in the Swede's golf bag, they excitedly waved pens in the hopes of securing an autograph. Grant duly obliged, signing everything from hats to golf balls.
It was a buzz worthy of a landmark achievement: Grant had just become the first-ever female winner on the DP World Tour with her victory at the Scandinavian Mixed event on June 12.

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