World Golf History: Isabelle Beisiegel Earns Card for Men's Canadian Tour

You go, girl.

Good for you, Isabelle Beisiegel. You're amazing and you've made golf history.

While Tiger Woods is hobbling around in his protective boot, a 32-year-old former University of Oklahoma All-American went out and earned playing privileges last week for the men's Canadian Tour.

Simply put, Beisiegel is the first woman EVER in golf history to earn a spot at a men's professional qualifying tournament.

She shot rounds of 75-78-68-75 to finish ninth and earn a fully-exempt spot with a 296, eight-over par total at the Canadian Q-School at the Morningstar Golf Club in Parksville, British Columbia.

This was no 6,600-yard course either. It was 7,000-plus and difficult. Medalist Andrew Kelly of Australia shot one-under par, 287 for the 72-hole qualifier.

What makes this even more interesting is the fact that Beisiegel has fought and overcome Graves Disease.

She was the medalist at the 2003 LPGA Q-School, but had a really non-eventful 2004 season and it was after that in November of 2005 when she was diagnosed with the disease that strikes the auto-immune system.

Beisiegel underwent surgery to remove her thyroid, then had successful thyroid hormone replacement therapy.

After a long road back, this latest accomplishment should garner a lot of attention for the Canadian Tour.

Golf history, for sure.

Major accomplishment? Simply extraordinary.