Shoshone-Paiute golfer Gabby Barker earns first professional victory in Florida
She beat a field of more than 60 women by four strokes
Shoshone-Paiute golfer Gabby Barker recorded her first professional win Feb. 4 at the NXXT Women’s Championship at Juliette Falls Golf Course in Dunnellon, Florida, according to ICT.
Barker finished the tournament at one-under-par, winning by four strokes over the next competitors in a field of more than 60 women golfers, according to ICT. Barker said difficult weather conditions shaped the competition. “With the wind and cold, if you got out of position it punished you pretty fast, so it turned into a strategy week more than a ball-striking contest,” she told ICT.
Barker grew up near the Duck Valley Indian Reservation along the Idaho-Nevada border and began playing golf with encouragement from her family. She previously qualified for the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship from 2012 to 2014 and earned Big 12 Player of the Year honors at Texas Tech University. Barker told ICT she is now focused on qualifying for the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour and the U.S. Women’s Open again.
- 1.Mark Wagner. ICT, .
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