Long has caddied at some professional
events in the past, most notably on the
Web.com Tour. He had never worked a PGA
Tour or LPGA Tour stop before Kingsmill,
though, and he got some good advice from
Woods’ caddie prior to starting.
“He looked at us, and he said, ‘You only get
to do this once. We get to do this every week.
Come out and enjoy yourselves,’” Long said.
Greenlief shot 82-75 over the two days,
well below the cut line but far from the
worst score in the tournament. (That would
belong to Lee, who stunningly shot 79-83.)
Greenlief’s drive on No. 1 on Thursday was
a sign of things to come, going left into the
tall grass. She scrambled for par, but the
trend continued throughout the front nine,
as everything seemed to go left.
It happened again on the par-5 third hole,
when she drove left into the rough near some
tall trees. She hit her second back to the fairway, but her third shot went way right, leading to a tricky shot out of the rough below the
green. Long said he figured Greenlief’s short
game was going to have to be on point if she
had any chance to compete, and Greenlief
showed just how good she could be when she
was on. Her fourth shot stung the flagstick,
and she tapped in for a wild par.
“Holes like that just make you smile,
because you kind of feel like you’re stealing
a shot back,” she said.
If she stole one there, she paid it back
in full five holes later on the par-4 8th.
Her drive settled on the left edge of the
fairway