{"id":6313,"date":"2022-10-21T08:19:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T08:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/marvel-star-kathryn-newton-says-actings-way-easier-than-golf\/"},"modified":"2022-10-21T08:19:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T08:19:53","slug":"marvel-star-kathryn-newton-says-actings-way-easier-than-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=6313","title":{"rendered":"Marvel star Kathryn Newton says acting’s ‘way easier than golf’"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n Next year, Kathryn Newton is set to face off against a time-travelling supervillain.\n <\/p>\n
\n But for this Hollywood actor, universe-ending threats are nothing compared to playing golf in 50 mile-an-hour winds at the legendary St. Andrews Old Course in Scotland.\n <\/p>\n
\n A leading role in the multi-billion-dollar Marvel cinematic universe marks the latest highlight in the 25-year-old\u2019s blossoming acting career: She will star as Cassie Lang, daughter of the titular shrinking superhero in \u201cAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,\u201d which comes out in February.\n <\/p>\n
\n But before there were short superheroes, there was the short game. Holding clubs before she could walk, Newton\u2019s life-long passion for golf made her a natural fit for the fabled Alfred Dunhill Links Pro-Am tournament staged at St. Andrews in October.\n <\/p>\n
\n Together with England\u2019s Matt Wallace, a four-time winner on the European Tour, she fought through blustery conditions as the duo recorded a respectable 118th place finish among a star-studded field of 167 pairs.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cActing\u2019s way easier than golf,\u201d Newton told CNN\u2019s The Jazzy Golfer, at the event.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI (don\u2019t) say that lightly because I have respect for my acting and my fellow actors. When I see the pros out here today, I feel like they\u2019re magicians or something.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI see a lot of similarities in the mental aspect of it, but I just think golf is so hard and to really be good at it, there\u2019s no sport like this. The elements today in Scotland \u2026 I don\u2019t even know how we\u2019re supposed to physically do it.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019m pretty blown away by the pros and I think I\u2019m going to stick to acting.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n The fact that the choice between a career on screen or on the fairways was once a very real dilemma is a testament to Newton\u2019s golfing prowess.\n <\/p>\n
\n Growing up on a golf course in Florida, she was a regular competitor in tournaments by the time she was eight. At Notre Dame High School, her five-under score set a new nine-hole school record en route to three team league championships.\n <\/p>\n
\n Having shot a 69 at one 18-hole event and regularly shooting in the 70s, in 2012 she had been set to try for a spot at the U.S. Women\u2019s Open, Newton told Golf Digest in a 2015 interview. Yet after landing the leading role in the fourth instalment of the horror film franchise \u201cParanormal Activity,\u201d she pulled out of her sectional qualifier.\n <\/p>\n
\n A burgeoning acting career, with leading roles in drama series \u201cBig Littles Lies\u201d and \u201cThe Society,\u201d soon put regular competitive golf on ice.\n <\/p>\n
\n When she\u2019s fizzing drives at her favorite course in the world and being complimented on her swing by major winners Rory McIlroy and Matt Fitzpatrick, does Newton ever wonder: \u201cWhat if?\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cOh yes, and then I think, \u2018Thank goodness I\u2019m not,\u2019\u201d she laughed. But give her the choice between scooping an Oscar and lifting a major, and the answer is a little different.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cWin a major, for sure,\u201d Newton said.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cActing is such a different thing, if you win that\u2019s incredible, but in golf there\u2019s something so commendable because it\u2019s all you: You did it, no one can take it from you, no one can doubt you, it was your day.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cOf course I\u2019d love both but I think an Oscar or any of those things, it\u2019s not a score on a scoreboard, it\u2019s just different. It\u2019s very subjective, I don\u2019t even know how you really win one, there\u2019s no \u2018you have to shoot this many better than the other person.\u2019\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n The Pro-Am also included a four-ball event, which saw Newton ally with Matt Wallace, Matt Fitzpatrick and Susan Fitzpatrick, mother of the 2022 US Open winner.\n <\/p>\n
\n Newton told CNN her dream four-ball line-up would be Rory McIlroy, Robert MacIntyre, Billy Horschel and Maverick McNealy, with Tiger Woods narrowly missing out.\n <\/p>\n
\n At The Open Championship in July, the stage for Woods\u2019 emotional, potentially concluding, walk down the Old Course\u2019s 18th fairway, the Hollywood star was left starstruck when asking the 15-time major winner and McIlroy for a selfie.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI had no choice, I had to,\u201d she said.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe words didn\u2019t really come out of my mouth, but they understood.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Having now made three visits to St. Andrews, Newton is already eyeing another trip to the \u201chome of golf\u201d for the Women\u2019s Open in 2024. The event returns to the Old Course for the first time since Stacy Lewis\u2019 victory nine years ago, after being held there in 2007 and 2013.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019m so excited,\u201d Newton said. \u201cI would love to be here when the women play here because I think they would just rip this course up.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThis is one of the best places in the world to play, so I feel excited for the women to get out here and show the world how amazing they are.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n And as the women\u2019s game continues to grow, Newton has a message for young girls yet to pick up a club.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cIf you\u2019re out there and you haven\u2019t played before and you think that this sport\u2019s for old people, it is, but it\u2019s also for you. I promise it\u2019s fun,\u201d she said.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019m so done with the question or the surprised face when I\u2019m at an event like this and they\u2019re like, \u2018So what are you doing here?\u2019 and I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh, I\u2019m playing\u2019 and they go, \u2018Oh.\u2019\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThat has to change. It shouldn\u2019t be surprising that I\u2019m going to play and most likely kick your butt.\u201d\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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