KETTERING, Ohio – Shelley O’Keefe signed up for a local qualifier for this year’s U.S. Senior Women’s Open, but her back went out on the morning she was supposed to tee it up at Sierra View Country Club in Roseville, California. She tried to qualify last year, too, the day before her last round of chemotherapy for ovarian cancer. That time was less about qualifying and more about seeing whether she could walk five miles.
O’Keefe gets emotional talking about what last year’s qualifier did for her mentally.
