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From The Golf Channel

By Brian Hewitt

If you detected a chill in the Minnesota air last Saturday when Inbee Park and Angela Park played in the same grouping—by the way, they’re not related—it was not just your imagination.

Inbee Park would win the U.S. Women’s Open the next day. Angela Park would finish in the top three for the second straight year. But afterward Don Brown, Angela Park’s coach, said that, sadly, Inbee and Angela are no longer best golfing friends.

Seems there was a falling out—between Angela’s parents and Inbee’s parents and it developed into something of a family feud that dragged the daughters into it. What was a very tight relationship between Angela and Inbee has suffered as a result.

When I asked Angela Park about this after the tournament, she was clearly uncomfortable with the subject. “It has been hard,” she said. “You never want to lose a friend. I have nothing against Inbee. We’re still young.”

When I asked Angela if their friendship could be restored in the future, she said she hoped so. Let’s hope so, too. Both women are just 19 years old.

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