Gabriella Then didn’t know much about the Ladies European Tour when she signed up to go to Q-School in Spain at the request of a friend. This was, after all, a second act of sorts. She’d already quit tour life once. Why not try something totally different?
Then, 26, actually won Q-School at the La Manga Club, and then got the shock of her life when she realized that much of the Ladies European Tour isn’t actually staged in Europe.
“I literally thought it was Europe, plus Dubai,” she said.