Courtney Myhrum will serve as a starter for the 2022 U.S. Senior Women’s Open, a role she will resume this year at the event in Pittsburgh. Darren Carroll, USGA

Courtney Myhrum would have liked to play in this week’s US Senior Women’s Open at Fox Chapel Golf Club in Pittsburgh.

She competed in 16 USGA Championships and would have faced 120 of the world’s top seniors on her home course, a classic Seth Raynor design renovated by Tom Fazio, where she is a seven-time club champion. However, an embolism and subsequent recovery earlier this year forced her to curtail her activities, so she withdrew from her designated qualifying site for the Aug. 1-4 event.

“I didn’t have the fitness at that point and certainly didn’t have April and May to get my game in order,” said Myhrum, who has served on the United States Golf Association’s executive committee since 2020. “How often do you get the chance to play in a championship at the…