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Article: GOLF PLUS; DIFFERENT STROKES; Erdmann-Crooks, Johnson take opposite routes to LPGA Tour
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- February 27, 2005
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Joellyn Erdmann-Crooks took the trial-and-error route to the LPGA
Tour, spending years working on her swing and her game and finally
making it through tour qualifying on her sixth attempt.
Malinda Johnson took the lightning-bolt route, winning the season-
ending Futures Tour event last year to vault to No. 5 on the money
list and claim the developmental tour's final automatic LPGA
exemption.
Erdmann-Crooks had been a professional for six years when she made
it to the big tour. Johnson had been a pro for three months and was
still a student at the University of Wisconsin. She graduated in
December with a degree in art.
But it doesn't matter how they made it to the LPGA Tour.
The point is ...