Golfweek’s Nervous Transgender Profile Piece

Golfweek, the golf publication “preferred by serious golfers,” has an interesting profile out this golf-week on Lana Lawless, 2008’s RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship women’s winner—annnnnd—a transgender person! Lawless seems pretty awesome—she’s done a golf-media victory lap this year where she got to say things like, “That other person, that 245-pound SWAT cop I used to be, he’s gone. He’s not coming back.” So there’s no lack of material with Lawless. I’m betting, though that senior writer James Achenbach is wading in some uncharted Golfweek territory here, based on the awkward bookends of the piece—his reluctant lede and sensational kicker.

Let’s see Achenbach’s lede. In a story titled “Long-drive champ shares her secret,” Achenbach starts off with a long, meandering, putt:

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