Choi enjoys success, 'can't stop' giving back: Na Yeon Choi could barely speak English as an LPG... #sports #golf

LPGA's Choi enjoys success, 'can't stop' giving back

golfweek.com 18 Jan '13, 10pm

Choi enjoys success, 'can't stop' giving back: Na Yeon Choi could barely speak English as an LPG... #sports #golf

WINDERMERE, Fla. – When Na Yeon Choi was a rookie on the LPGA, she spoke so little English that she and her parents often ate at fast-food restaurants because the combo meals were numbered. One of the few times they ventured out to a nicer establishment, Choi’s father ordered for the family by walking the waiter over to a nearby table and pointing to the plates of other patrons. “We traveled like that for over one year,” Choi said. “It was a very hard time.” On Friday, Choi sat in a dining room overlooking the first tee at Isleworth Golf and Country Club and handled a lunch interview as seamlessly as the other U.S. Open champion sitting nearby, two-time men's winner Retief Goosen, might have done. Four years ago, this would’ve been a tortuous day for the player known on tour as NYC. In fact, downright impossible. But now the reigning U.S. Women’s Open champion and No. 2-ra...

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