Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.

I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.

I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.

When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.

My life is really quite conservative. I've been married nearly 50 years. I don't have hobbies or children. I don't much care to travel. I've never had a big social life. I really just stay home, except when I go to work.

My family went to Toronto to visit relatives when I was 13 or 14. It was the first time we had ever been abroad. This was the early Eighties, and I remember the impossible glamour of air travel - my mum spending days trying to decide what she was going to wear on the plane.

As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.

When I moved to Atlanta, I felt like an outsider - away from my friends and family except for the LGBTQ community.