Amateur Michelle Cheung became the first Hong Kong golfer in history to play in – and make the cut at – a Ladies European Tour event last month when she put in a brilliant performance at the World Ladies Championship on Hainan Island. Here, Michelle, who will head to Wisconsin University-Madison later this year on a golf scholarship, recalls the experience in her own words
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Written by Michelle Cheung
Photography by Courtesy of Mission Hills
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