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Leonie Harm, right, attends the German Masters golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour in Winsen Germany, Saturday, May 16, 2026. (Marc Moeller\/dpa via AP) (Marc M\u00f6ller\/DPA)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Thirteen years after nearly dying when she was hit by a drunken driver, German golfer Leonie Harm won her first professional title on the Ladies European Tour \u2014 on home soil, too.<\/p>

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Harm birdied her last two holes to win the German Masters on Sunday for a belated golfing breakthrough that seemed destined not to happen in 2013 when she went for an early-morning run before school.<\/p>\n

As she crossed the street near her home, Harm \u2014 aged 15 at the time and a highly rated junior in European golf \u2014 was hit by a car being driven at 45 miles per hour by a woman who had been drinking alcohol.<\/p>\n

Harm said she suffered collapsed lungs, a skull fracture and had hematomas in her brain, while she also broke her ribs, hip and ankle and sustained a damaged left ear. She was put in a medically induced coma, with doctors unsure if she\u2019d be able to walk again.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s why Harm spoke after her maiden win about showing \u201cresilience\u201d in the tough times in her life, which included losing her mother to cancer soon after starting to study biochemistry at the University of Houston and then nearly quitting professional golf at the end of 2024.<\/p>

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\u201cI believe right now I\u2019m in a good spot mentally,\u201d Harm told the LET, \u201cand for it to then be paired with success in golf is such a great feeling because I didn\u2019t have to be miserable. I could\u2019ve been happy this whole time and it would have worked with a lot of the times where you get impatient and to be more forgiving to yourself.<\/p>\n

\u201cA good takeaway there is to be your own best friend eventually and hopefully then be successful in working with yourself rather than against it, which I\u2019ve done for probably most of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old Harm, who went into the German Masters ranked No. 250 in the world, was especially happy to have won her first title in an event in her home country.<\/p>

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\u201cSo many people came out to support,\u201d she said, \u201cand that just means a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

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AP golf: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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