Annabelle Pancake’s super power lies in an ability to adapt.
Here’s a player who grew up in the Midwest (Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel, Indiana, to be exact, where her dad, Tony, is the director of golf), has competed largely in the Southeast as a member of Clemson’s women’s golf team and has made deep match-play runs at women’s amateur events everywhere from the Chicago suburbs to University Place, Washington, to Sandwich, England.
Adaptability is just the start, and really more of a byproduct of prioritizing attitude and preparation.
Pancake, 21, can’t quite put a finger on who, in her head, she felt she was playing for as a junior golfer. But in the past two years, a firmer grasp on her faith has cleared the way for some of her best golf yet.
“My goal for every day is to have fun, glorify God and beat the golf course, and if I do those three things, I’m going to be pretty dang good,” she said. “That kind of is where I’ve shifted over the past couple years, and I feel like that’s really helped …
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