[PHOTO: James Gilbert]
When Auburn University women’s golf coach Melissa Luellen has a team issue to mull over or an opinion she needs from one of her players, she says she’s got a go-to person in Megan Schofill. The 22-year-old, Luellen says, is smart, driven, thoughtful and walks the careful line between being confident and cocky. Luellen calls her a “mini-coach” and says she’s told Schofill that if professional golf doesn’t work out, she’d be the fantastic leader of a golf program one day.
Schofill wasn’t so sure about that. “She’s pretty tough,” Luellen says. “She said she’d probably make the girls cry.”
If Schofill didn’t leave anybody crying in the 123rd US Women’s Amateur at Bel-Air Country Club this past week, they certainly walked away with a new-found respect for her tenacity and talent. In the final, Schofill faced her childhood…