The Lebron James of LPGA: Megan Khang Wins Los Angeles’ Heart After Jokingly Stealing A Legend Persona

The Lakers 23 yellow kit can bring your inner LeBron James out. Ask Megan Khang. Actually, you don’t have to ask her; she actually did bring out her inner King James at the Wilshire Country Club in LA. Donning a Lakers 23 jersey, Khang impersonated how James would behave on the course. That, quite inevitably, included a slam dunk as well. 

It was a result of a bet, though. Allison Lee, her LPGA peer, challenged Khang a few weeks ago for a three-hole playoff. Khang lost after driving her ball straight to the lake and had to don the Lakers jersey despite being a Celtics fan, not without throwing enough ‘tantrums’. Fans, though, loved the bit of entertainment after a closely fought major championship. 

Megan Khang is the LeBron of the LPGA 

Staying true to her words, Khang donned the Lakers jersey, and of course, it was LeBron James’s yellow kit. “I’m a little restricted right now,” quipped the 26-year-old before impersonating James’s warm-up routine. The discomfort didn’t last long, though. Khang, after smoking her tee shot, screamed, “LeBron James.” Who wouldn’t flex while sporting a Lakers 23 kit?

Now, you don’t see golfers doing warm-ups while traveling from the tee to the fairway. But Khang channeled her inner NBA icon and looked pumped. As she walked with her club in her hand, the LPGA pro braced herself for the approach. She was well in a position to hole out on her next shot. 

Well, we should call it a slam dunk rather than a putt. She, after all, spun around Allison Lee, who stood by the pin flag to ‘hole’ it out. Khang missed on her first try; Lee teased, “That’s way off.” But Megan Khang dunked it like a pro on her second attempt. Lee herself tried and missed twice. “Trash,” Khang dismissed Lee’s attempts to hole it out, taking on not only LeBron’s game-skill for moments but also his trash talk prowess!

However, from a further distance, Lee had the upper hand. “I win again. You gotta wear that jersey tomorrow too,” Lee said. Khang and Lee appeared to have shaken off their Chevron Championship heartbreak. LPGA fans, too, loved the way these two entertained each other. 

Fans are sold on Khang’s King James avatar

Fun challenges like this are rare, especially when the major season has kicked in. But the lighthearted banter was well-received among fans, who probably remembered Sam Burns and Justin Thomas’s college football bet at the American Express. Comments like “Yessssss! hahaha,” “this is great lol I love it”,  “I love her” filled her feed. In fact, Jessica Korda, too, joined the chorus. She posted the tears of joy emoji in the comment section.

However, some expected to see Nelly Korda, too. Arguably, Khang and Korda are the LPGA’s most famous BFFs, after Charley Hull and Georgia Hall. Interestingly, Nelly Korda was slated to tee off at the JM Eagle Championship. But she eventually withdrew, deciding to take a week off after five straight LPGA Tour victories. Some fans were heavily expecting to watch the reigning worldno. 11 on the greens. “How about world#1 play in La??!!” wrote one user.

The JM Eagle LA Championship will kick off on April 25. Megan Khang has been paired with Charley Hull and Jin Young Ko on the first tee at 1.10 PM local time. Lee will tee off ten minutes later from the same box, along with Ayaka Furue and Rose Zhang.