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Singaporean golfer Shannon Tan is a shining study in progress

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Singaporean golfer Shannon Tan has made her fine improvements in her short game and in her final-round play.

PHOTO: MARK RUNNACLES/LET

Progress is what the athlete searches for. A sign, a hint, a signal. Am I better? It comes incrementally, thousands of lonely hours translating to marginal improvement. It can be a feeling, a timing, a statistic on precision. It can be a short game thats tighter or a tenacity thats been tested.

Or just a great player telling you that, who knows, one day you could be somebody.