RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — The LPGA is not readily accessible to a daughter of Mexican immigrants who was reared in a nondescript town a few miles east of Los Angeles, in a neighborhood where collars are predominantly blue.
Lizette Salas hits her second shot on the second hole during the final round of the Kraft Nabisco Championship. Photo by Stephen Dunn/Getty Images
“Golf was not the thing you do where I grew up,” Lizette Salas said. She is from Azusa, Calif., a town that in a broad context claims little more than the middle stop in the old Jack Benny Show routine announcing the next train to Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga. There was no rail service to Azusa.
Yet there she was at the start of play on Sunday, in second place and vying to win the prestigious Kraft Nabisco Championship. She might have been steamrolled in the final round, …