Surgical precision

When Natalie Srinivasan retired from professional golf at the end of the 2022 Epson Tour season, she did it cold turkey. Srinivasan, formerly the top female collegian, hasn’t played a round since she left the tour.
For one thing, as a first-year medical student at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina, Srinivasan lacks the time to pour into her game. For another, Srinivasan, who grew up in Spartanburg, South Carolina, spent so long at the pinnacle of the sport that now it’s hard to experience it in any other way.
Srinivasan’s 2½-year professional career largely played out on the Epson Tour. She made 14 cuts in 18 events in the 2022 season and finished in the top 10 three times. By July, however, she had decided that she would hang it up in the fall. She played the Epson Tour Championship in October, finished T-56, and hasn’t played a round since.
The few times post-retirement that she has hit golf balls, usually with her brother, she found the experience to be frustrating.

“For me, golf wasn’t a hobby...