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Aaliyah Kikumoto, the Texas Tech cheerleader who went viral when she was noticed on TV within the gallery throughout final 12 months’s Masters and earned her the moniker “Masters Woman,” returned for one more spherical this 12 months, however it didn’t go easily.
Kikumoto, who truly has a heck of a golf swing herself, first gained the eye of golf followers when a video of her standing behind the golfers on the sixteenth tee field throughout the broadcast blew up on TikTok.
It didn’t take lengthy for web sleuths to determine her. After all, they’d fairly a little bit of assist from Aaliyah Kikumoto’s personal mother and father.
Her mom A.J. and her father Charles each shared a number of posts on social media, proudly revealing that it was their daughter who went viral.
Sure, having fun with easter on the masters with my TTU pom squad hat on. Our daughter Aaliyah has the inexperienced masters hat on and goes to Tech. Wreck em! pic.twitter.com/5nq99dTi06
— Charles Kikumoto (@CharlesKikumoto) April 10, 2023
Taking full benefit of her newfound fame, Aaliyah Kikumoto then attended the PGA Championship and was reportedly “swarmed” by followers on the occasion.
The summer time enjoyable over, Kikumoto returned to Texas Tech for her sophomore 12 months within the fall and resumed her duties as a Pink Raiders cheerleader and build up her social media fanbase.
Quick ahead to this previous week and yep, there she was once more at Augusta Nationwide carrying her now trademark Masters cap.
“Shes again!!” Aaliyah wrote on TikTok.
@aaliyahkikumoto shes again‼️‼️#Inverted #themasters #masters2024 #golf #mastersgirl #themastersgirl ♬ shes again – moura
“Feels so good to be again,” Kikumoto captioned one other video from Georgia.
@aaliyahkikumoto feels so good to be again☺️☺️☺️ #Inverted #themasters #masters2024 #mastersgirl #themastersgirl #augusta #golf #golftiktok ♬ Reward Jah In The Moonlight – YG Marley
Whereas she seems very completely happy to have made her triumphant return to the match, getting there was moderately troublesome, based on her dad Charles, who despatched an electronic mail to Outkick.
“As you may think about there aren’t any direct flights from Lubbock to Augusta so our daughter needed to fly from Lubbock to Dallas to Charlotte to Augusta and was purported to land simply earlier than midnight on Friday night time – additionally on American Airways,” Charles wrote.
“Her flight in Dallas will get delayed with points (not climate associated) so she misses her flight to Augusta,” he continued. “She will get a textual content that she is rebooked from Charlotte to Augusta on Sunday versus being there as initially booked on Friday night time.”
He ended up driving the three hours from Augusta to Charlotte, selecting her up at 12:20 a.m. and returning to August round 4 a.m.
“So it’s Saturday morning and Masters Woman is now right here on Augusta grounds and with a pair hours of sleep we are able to’t complain.”
“Catch me on the clubhouse,” the 20-year-old Aaliyah wrote on Instagram after lastly arriving.
A number of followers on on Instagram stated additionally they noticed her watching the gamers teeing off on the primary gap, so it seems that it was undoubtedly value the entire effort.
