Roberta Liti: “Paris 2024, goal from last year”

There will also be Roberta Liti’s star in the golf panorama of 2023. Born in 1995, the Tuscan has shown the best of her repertoire to conquer the coveted card that is worth the opportunity to play on the LPGA tour. A goal, this, sought for a long time, with many efforts and finally found with immense joy. Oasports reached out to her for an interview that sees her talking about what just happened, her university years and a future that, why not, could also include five very specific circles.

Roberta Liti, statements

“It was a beautiful and huge emotion. All the two weeks leading up to taking the card were difficult, in which she tries not to think about everything else that will follow if she manages to reach her goal. Once the last putt entered at 18 it was on the one hand a liberation, on the other an immense joy because you realize that it’s what you’ve always been waiting for, since I was 9 and started playing. The dream has come true, but it’s only the beginning.”

“Let’s say it’s a bit of a tour de force. You have to be in top form for two consecutive weeks: one lap, one bad episode is enough to throw everything away. Even maintaining concentration for eight laps is difficult, with all the pressure involved. This is definitely one of the hardest tests I’ve ever been on. Eight laps are a lot, but whoever lasts wins!”

“Unfortunately the difficult thing about golf is the separation of the professional golfing part of yourself from the human one. When your life becomes that of golf, the kicks you take in golf carry over into your personal life as well. The kicks I’m talking about are golf-level, but when your life revolves around golf in one way or another, then it’s hard to get away from what’s going on on the course. A bit like everyone, not just me. Golf challenges you every day. What we golfers say is that sometimes in every moment we say ‘no, you’re crazy, I don’t know if those few moments of joy are worth the coin’. But probably yes, because otherwise we wouldn’t still be here doing it”.

“Unfortunately, when your main goals in life involve golf, if things don’t go well it’s hard to make them go right on a personal level too. The most difficult thing, but also the one that in a certain sense leads to success, is being able to separate Roberta as a player from Roberta as a person and not to connect her person to the results on the golf course. You can’t make what you’re worth as a person depend on what happens on the pitch, which is what I think many players find it more difficult to do”.