Sean Foley Spotted Working With Rising LPGA Star

Lindy Duncan is a name you're going to want to familiarize yourself with.

She made her LPGA debut in 2014, but only made one start, quickly losing her status and had to fight to earn it back for the 2016 season. It's a story we hear all too often in golf, a player makes it to the big tour but struggles to perform. But here's what makes Duncan so intriguing. The 34-year-old LPGA vet is just now hitting her stride—on a tour that is skewing to reward young players fresh out of college and in their early 20s.

Over the past few seasons, the average winning age on the LPGA Tour has hovered around 25.5 years, almost a decade younger than Duncan. And despite this trend, the former Duke Blue Devil standout is as mentally tough as she's ever been.

She's yet to get that maiden title, but nevertheless, she is walking away from 2025 the most successful she's ever been in an LPGA season.

Back in the spring, Duncan sprung onto the scene after a stellar performance at the Chevron Championship. She played her way into that wild five player playoff, coming up just shy as a runner-up. Since then, she's earned five other top-10s and a career record $1.2 million in earnings.

On Monday night, at the annual Rolex LPGA Awards, Duncan was honored with the Heather Farr Perseverance Award for the resiliency she's shown throughout her career.

It has been anything but easy, and Duncan delivered what was one of the most impactful speeches of the night, which she also shared on her Instagram.

"Not that long ago, on the very last hole of Q-Series I made an eight. To be clear: on the 144th hole of the most stressful tournament of my life, I made an eight...and missed full status by one shot.

This was not a "golf-is-hard" eight. It was a total out-of-body eight. A complete mental collapse" Duncan recalled in her speech.

"In 15 minutes, my job disappeared and it felt like part of my heart did too. I ruminated for weeks, "Oh golf...why don't you love me back?"

"So with nothing left to lose, except maybe the last bit of my sanity, hanging on like a downhill four footer, I started searching for a new way."

With a new mindset, she's brought on one of the most prolific coaches in the modern game—Sean Foley. The two crossed paths via Lydia Ko, another one of Foley's players on the LPGA and a good friend of Duncan's.

Most notably, Foley worked with Tiger Woods when his game needed it most. The always stylish coach brought Woods back to being the top ranked player in the world, and they won eight titles together.

I'll be the first to admit when players make swing adjustments and who they bring on to help make those changes has never really quite been in my orbit—but in this particular situation, you can consider my interest piqued.

For the better part of a year Foley and Duncan have been teaming up, and she feels the most herself. In an April story for Golf Channel and NBC Sports Duncan said, "He’s really into, I’d say, philosophy, psychology and perspective. So it really took a turn in that direction. He’s really amazing to talk to in terms of what’s going on in life and he’s been really helpful with that."

She's a force, and with the right person behind her—Lindy Duncan is one to watch in 2026.

She's in the field for the CME Group Tour Championship, her first since 2018. Follow along this weekend.

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