

GOLF SHORT SKIRTS GOLF KATHRYN NEWTON MOVIE
She recently finished a series of auditions for potential television pilots, and she nearly landed a role in the recently released smash-hit movie The Hunger Games. Newton, who carries a 3.3 grade-point average, admitted that it’s tough balancing acting, academics and golf. “I just think she needs more time and exposure. The timing seemed right for Kathryn to receive expert instruction.

GOLF SHORT SKIRTS GOLF KATHRYN NEWTON PRO
Liaw, the head pro at Morongo Golf Club and an assistant coach at Division III Redlands University, approached Newton’s parents about working with her. Women’s Amateur Public Links who is coached by 2001 U.S. While playing a tournament in Hemet, Calif., she was paired with Jisoo Park, a semifinalist in the 2009 U.S. Nevertheless, Newton’s success last fall was a motivating factor to improve. A disappointing 95 at The Golf Club at Rancho California left Newton far off the cutline to reach the state finals.

A 79 at the individual sectional finals – she played her final five holes in one under par – put her in the state qualifier. Last fall, she starred as a freshman on the varsity at Notre Dame High in Sherman Oaks, Calif., helping the Knights to a regional title. Four years ago, she broke 80 for the first time. “I would win tournaments and the most you could win was $200 in prizes ,” said David Newton.ĭavid Newton first put a club in Kathryn’s hand when she was a toddler and by the time she was 8, she had fallen in love with the game. After graduation, his Index was a plus-2 and he briefly dabbled in Florida pro-ams. Her father, David, played two years at Platte Junior College in Nebraska, where he qualified for the National Junior College Championship (he wasn’t able to go due to lack of funds), and one year at the University of Colorado. “I am ready,” said Newton by phone from Studio City, Calif., where she has lived the past four years. Now she has taken the next step in her golf development by entering the 2012 U.S. Newton has been auditioning for television and movie roles since she was 4. If you’ve seen the 2011 movie Bad Teacher, Newton had a prominent role as junior high diva Chase Rubin-Rossi, alongside Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake.īut this summer, the 15-year-old Newton would like to take a different star turn on the grandest stage in women’s golf. You might have caught her in the role of Louise Brooks on Gary Unmarried, the CBS comedy that aired from 2008-2010. If I lose this job I’m going to have to sell pictures of my feet on OnlyFans.You might have noticed Kathryn Newton playing a young Colby Chandler on a couple of episodes of the ABC soap opera All My Children. It must be nice to have options and be good at stuff. Still, it makes sense that she ultimately chose acting, which does seem like an easier way to make a living than playing golf, or really than anything else in the world. She did play in a pro-am in Scotland last fall, though it’s unclear where she finished. Newton talked about possibly walking on at USC in a handful of interviews, though it looks like nothing came of that. It’s always weirdly surprising to learn that an actor is competent at something besides the performing arts, like meeting a lizard who can juggle. Women’s Open, but she got the lead in “Paranormal Activity 4” and had to withdraw from the sectional qualifier.įor those of you non-golfers out there, five under for nine holes (in a match, no less), isn’t just “pretty good,” it’s really, really good. She also set a school record with a five-under-par round in a nine-hole match and plays to a plus-2 handicap. She routinely shot in the 70s, and her lowest 18-hole score in a tournament is a 69. Now 18, Newton recently graduated from Notre Dame High School in Southern California after helping the school’s golf team win three league championships. As it turns out, she’s not (so far as I can tell without getting deeper into genealogy than Wikipedia allows), though she is really good at golf. She seemed familiar in that ineffable way, so much so that I wondered if she was one of them Nepo Babies we hear so much about. Kathryn Newton plays Cassie Lang in Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania, and if her face seems familiar it’s because she’s also been in Big Little Lies and has had minor roles in everything from Lady Bird to Mad Men to Dog With A Blog (yes, any excuse to squeeze in a Dog With A Blog mention).
