Kai Trump reveals mental change that led to improvement on second day of LPGA debut

President Donald Trump's granddaughter Kai Trump improved connected a unsmooth archetypal time of her LPGA debut. 

In her encore astatine The Annika Friday, she improved by 8 strokes compared to her show Thursday.

After she was done playing Friday, Trump said she felt much "peaceful" compared to Thursday, which led to the improvement. 

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Amateur Kai Trump of the United States lines up her putt connected the 15th greenish during the archetypal circular of The Annika astatine Pelican Golf Club Nov. 13, 2025, successful Belleair, Fla. (Julio Aguilar/Getty Images)

"For the archetypal time I was decidedly truly nervous. I deliberation the nerves conscionable got to me," she said. "When I went retired determination today, I felt precise calm and peaceful, to beryllium honorable with you. That’s wherefore I played better.

"I did everything I could perchance person done for this tournament. So, I deliberation if you hole right, the nerves tin … they're ever going to beryllium there, right? They tin beryllium a small softened. So, I would conscionable accidental that."

Trump's "peaceful" mindset whitethorn person paid disconnected erstwhile she made a bid of aboriginal blunders connected the third, 4th and 5th holes but recovered to birdie 3 of her adjacent six holes.

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"Things are going to happen. Once it happens, you can’t spell backmost successful clip and hole it," she said of the triple. "The champion happening I could bash is determination on. Like I told my caddie, Allan, benignant of conscionable started laughing. It is what it is. We got that retired of the way, truthful let’s conscionable determination on. It was beauteous casual to determination connected aft that."

Still, she finished successful past spot successful the 108-player tract and volition not marque the chopped to proceed successful the tourney implicit the weekend. She finished with a two-round full of 18-over 158, putting her 27 shots down person Grace Kim (65-66) and 17 distant from the projected chopped enactment astatine 1 implicit par.

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Amateur Kai Trump walks from the 16th tee during the archetypal circular of The Annika astatine Pelican Golf Club Nov. 13, 2025, successful Belleair, Fla. (Julio Aguilar/Getty Images)

But Trump's show earned the praise of women's play prima Charley Hull, a protagonist of the president. 

"That’s truly bully considering this is not conscionable an casual LPGA event. This is astir apt 1 of the harder courses that we play on," Hull said of Trump, per Golf Channel. 

"So, for her to travel out, she had to beryllium truthful nervous. It was her archetypal LPGA event. I retrieve my archetypal event. I was truly nervous, and she’s got a batch of unit connected her and a batch of eyes connected her."

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