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WSJ Secrets of Wealthy Women

Stacy Lewis: Striving for Equity in Women's Golf

WSJ Secrets of Wealthy Women

The Wall Street Journal

Careers, Business

4.6955 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Stacy Lewis, a professional golfer on the LPGA tour, explains to WSJ's Veronica Dagher how the sport has changed for women and how she's getting through the pandemic.

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Hey I'm Veronica Dagger and this is the Wall Street Journal,

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Secrets of Wealthy Women, where women share how they tackle career, money, and the world.

0:28.0

Today, we're speaking with Pro Golf Champion, Stacey Lewis.

0:32.0

Stacey is a 12-time winner on the professional tour and she's

0:35.8

ranked twice as the number one female golfer in the world. But in her life

0:40.4

like in golf she's had to overcome some sandpits including back surgery

0:44.9

and balancing a pro-Golf career with being a mom. Today she's here to tell us what

0:50.1

she's learned from managing both roles and how she's become an advocate for women in sports. Stacey, welcome to Secrets.

1:05.0

Thanks, Veronica, thanks for having me.

1:10.0

Our pleasure. First, how are you doing?

1:12.0

I know it's been a crazy couple months for everybody.

1:14.4

It has, you know, I just kind of feel like you're sitting around waiting for somebody to tell you to go.

1:19.1

I have a one-year-old, so fortunately we stay pretty busy every day and just really been enjoying our time

1:24.8

as a family but I'm ready to play some golf. Yeah the LPGA tour has been on hold

1:30.3

because of the coronavirus but it's scheduled to get underway in July.

1:35.0

How are you feeling about the season?

1:37.2

I'm excited, you know, this time has actually been great for me.

1:40.5

I've actually had a lot of time to work on my game that I haven't been able to do

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