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"\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n\n\nShowcasing the fact talent has no age minimum, 11-year-old Lucy Li is competing against women at least twice her age at the U.S. Women's Open in Pinehurst, North Carolina, this week. The Redwood Shores, California, sixth-grader is the youngest player to ever qualify for the competition after winning the Half Moon Bay sectional in San Francisco by a whopping seven shots, the Golf Channel reports.Li took up golf when she was 7 after watching her brother play for his high school team, The New York Times reports. At 5-foot-3, she can drive the ball about 230 yards, she says \u2014 about the length of two football fields. Li already established herself as a golf prodigy last year when, at 10, she became the youngest player to qualify for the U.S. Women's Amateur, according to the Golf Channel.Despite the achievements, Li hasn't let the pressure get to her. \"I like the crowds,\" she told reporters this week during her introductory press conference for Pinehurst, and there's nothing really that scares her about the Women's Open.\"I just want to go out there and have fun and play the best I can,\" she said. \"And I really don't care about the outcome. I want to have fun and learn. I want to learn a lot from these great players\" \u2014 great players who, at this rate, won't be seeing the last of Li's braces-marked smile anytime soon.RELATED: Get That Life: How I Opened My Own Clothing BoutiqueWorld Cup-Inspired Fashion So Cute, You'll Forget You Don't Care About Soccer5 Easy Ways to Work Out While TravelingFollow Alyssa on Twitter.Photo credit: Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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