Karen Stupples - What its like to win a major golf tournament, The LPGA dilemma- maintaining your edge while trying to have a family and the challenges that comes with it, What could be done to make women's professional golf more appealing?

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​Karen Stupples (IG: @stupplesk , T: @Ktupples) is an English former professional golfer who played primarily on the U.S.-based LPGA-Tour and was also a member of the Ladies European Tour. Over the course of her 15-year career Karen won LPGA’s Welch’s/Fry’s Championship and followed that with the 2004 Women’s British Open. She accumulated almost $4 million in career earnings on the LPGA and Ladies Euro Tours. Since 2013, Karen has worked as an on-course reporter and analyst for the Golf Channel in their coverage of the LPGA Tour and the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.

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