SINGAPORE – Over a few months in 2019, Aloysa Atienza would take the ferry to Pulau Tekong a few times a week, spending the day in nature doing fieldwork as part of her civil engineering internship.
It was during this time that she realised she would much rather be surrounded by the greenery of the golf course, which pushed the then undergraduate at the National University of Singapore to practise more.
It was a move that paid dividends as she was recruited to the national team in 2020. She went on to notch a creditable run of results in 2022, winning an individual silver medal in her SEA Games debut as well as several top-10 finishes in tournaments in Australia and the United States.
All these experiences have given the 24-year-old more confidence as she begins her quest to become a professional golfer, and ultimately play on the LPGA Tour.
Atienza said: “I felt that those to…