"Still, Trump, 18, didn't make the cut, not after finishing last among 108 players with a two-round total of 18-over, 27 shots behind leader Grace Kim and 17 away from the projected cut line. The granddaughter of President Trump improved eight strokes to a 75 in the second round of the tournament hosted by Hall of Famer Annika Sorenstam at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Fla."
""Things are going to happen," she said. "Once it happens, you can't go back in time and fix it. The best thing I could do is move on. Like, I told my caddie, Allan [Kournikova], kind of just started laughing, 'it is what it is.' "We got that out of the way, so let's just move on. It was pretty easy to move on after that.""
"What would she tell her grandfather about the round? "That I hit a great shot on 18 two days in a row." "I did everything I could possibly have done for this tournament, so I think if you prepare right, the nerves can ... they're always going to be there, right?," she said. "They can be a little softened. So I would just say that.""
Kai Trump, an 18-year-old senior, played in an LPGA Tour event and went from "definitely really nervous" to "very calm and peaceful" between rounds. She shot a 75 in the second round, improving by eight strokes, but finished last among 108 players at 18-over, 27 shots behind leader Grace Kim and 17 shots from the projected cut line. Trump had nine bogeys, two doubles and one birdie in the first round, then briefly went under par in the second before a triple bogey. She laughed off the triple and rebounded with three birdies over six holes. She nearly made a hole-in-one on No. 12 and emphasized moving on from mistakes and managing nerves.
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