When she was simply 17 years previous, Monet Chun’s three massive targets as an novice had been to win a nationwide title, play collegiate golf within the NCAA and compete in an LPGA Tour occasion. At present at 24, the college of Michigan grad has checked off all three – and now has her sights set on a profitable profession in skilled golf.
Having labored with Chun as her private coach since 2019, Matt Wilson speaks in regards to the qualities that allow her to achieve success and obtain her targets on the golf course.
“Monet’s normal disposition permits her to achieve success within the sport of golf which requires limitless persistence, super dedication, and a really clear imaginative and prescient,” he identified.
“She’s additionally obtained a wholesome dose of curiosity. You mix that with sturdy work ethic and also you get continuous enchancment,” famous Wilson.
“Monet is a really regular participant. She’s fairly good at every thing and performs a extremely tight recreation. She’s a really particular expertise.”
Chun put her particular skills on full show on the 2022 Canadian Girls’s Beginner Championship in Kitchener, Ont. She completed the event at 5 underneath and received her first nationwide title by two strokes over runner up and fellow Richmond Hill, Ont., golfer, Alissa Xu.
“It was enormous objective of mine to win a nationwide occasion and I assume it confirmed that each one the onerous work was paying off,” mentioned Chun.
By successful the Canadian Girls’s Beginner, Chun obtained an exemption to compete on the U.S. Girls’s Beginner, together with an exemption to compete in her first LPGA occasion on the 2022 CPKC Girls’s Open.
Chun placed on a powerful exhibiting on the 2022 U.S. Girls’s Beginner the place she made all of it the way in which to the championship match and completed runner as much as Saki Baba of Japan.
“That was the 12 months that every thing got here collectively. I used to be enjoying a few of my greatest golf,” recalled the proficient Canadian Nationwide Crew member.
In 2022, Chun additionally led the College of Michigan ladies’s golf squad to their first Massive Ten convention title in class historical past.
“I spent 4 years there and had a good time with the group and the coaches. My recreation actually improved throughout that point and it was nice being a part of the primary ladies’s group to win the Massive Ten convention title in 2022,” mentioned Chun, who accomplished an undergrad in kinesiology.
Having achieved her high targets as an novice, the College of Michigan grad now has a transparent imaginative and prescient for fulfillment on the skilled ranks. This 12 months she is competing on the Epson Tour and hopes to proceed her studying on path to the LPGA Tour sooner or later.
Wilson says Chun is heading in the right direction and believes that by making continued enhancements in her placing and getting it to a world class degree, the objective of constructing it to the LPGA Tour is inside attain.
“Her placing is nice however by persevering with to enhance and getting it to a world class degree, that’s what’s going to get Monet onto the LPGA Tour and have quite a lot of success as soon as she’s there.”
Chun identifies two former members of the Canadian Nationwide Crew Program additionally from the Richmond Hill space who’ve offered her with a transparent imaginative and prescient for fulfillment over time by way of their success enjoying the game on the highest degree – particularly Rebecca Lee-Bentham and Taylor Pendrith.
“Rising up, I’ve identified about Rebecca and watched her play all through her junior profession in school and on the LPGA; and its fairly cool to be able to attempt to have a few of that success,” mentioned Chun.
“I’ve performed at Summit Golf and Nation Membership and I do know Taylor has performed there additionally. It’s inspiring to see the success he’s at the moment having as an expert on the PGA Tour.”
Having been on the Nationwide Crew Program since her teenage years, Chun is grateful for the continued assist and credit this system for enjoying a major function in serving to flip her imaginative and prescient and targets into actuality.
“This system has helped enhance not solely my strategies, however has helped me improved bodily power and my psychological recreation,” she famous.
“Being a part of this system, we’ve got entry to so many sources to assist us and assist us attain our targets on the golf course.”
