There's No PLACE Like the TOTO Japan Classic for the LPGA's Jane Park

Team Lithuania Lydia Siipola teeing off at Rio Mar

in Puerto Rico at the 2004 WWATC 

Click here to see first round highlights from Jane Park's round at TOTO Japan Classic 

Jane Park reflects on her USGA events

Opening Ceremonies:Making Friends and 

Collecting Pins after Resting All Day

Last time I saw Jane Park was at a the 2004 WWATC in Puerto Rico as I was a member of the Lithuanian team and she was on the United States team   with Paula Creamer & Sarah Huarte who ultimately finished tied for runner-up with Team Canada.

It was a challenging time for me as I was one year into my battle against an unknown mystery illness.

Weird pain, disrupted sleeping and fatigue as I attended the WWATC games.  My dream was to represent Lithuania and raise the Lithuanian flag in a tribute to my grandfather (mom's dad) who had been captured by the KGB and sent to Siberia.

He was a skilled horseman, pilot, skier, boxer to name a few of his athletic pursuits. He survived three years in Siberia before he was put to death at the age of 43.

Ultimately, I could barely manage to walk two (long) rounds and Did Not Finish the last two rounds.

KUDOS to my twin who did her best to complete her rounds.

14 years later it is no longer a mystery: A VECTOR BORNE ILLNESS was the culprit(s) that robbed me of a competitive amateur golf career and eventually caused me to step away from coaching the sport I love.


I REMAIN UNDAUNTED!

Thank you to the Translational Medical Group and Integrative Health Consults who identified the Protomyxoa (half malaria and half parasitic worm wrapped in a biofilm inside my blood cells) and Bartonella San Antonio and Bartonella Hemobart bacteria attached to the outside of my red blood cells.

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