THE WOODLANDS, Texas — World No. 1 Nelly Korda had an unbelievable run on Friday just to make the cut in the Chevron Championship. Her momentum continued in Saturday’s third round with four birdies and a first nine of 33 that got the defending champion only four shots off of the lead. Then, inexplicably, Korda Read more…
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — World No. 1 Nelly Korda had a rough first round in the Chevron Championship and an even tougher start on Friday. MORE: Semi-retired Lexi Thompson shows she can still compete Korda bogeyed two of the first three holes at The Club at Carlton Woods and was seven over with 16 holes Read more…
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — If you see Sarah Schmelzel and her caddie smiling and laughing, after a birdie or bogey, it’s by design. Between singing “Blank Space” by Taylor Swift or needling one another, caddie Taylor “Shota” Takeda likes to keep things loose, and Schmelzel is up for that, too. They started working together at Read more…
China’s Yan Liu joined a very exclusive golf club Friday in the second round of the LPGA Tour’s first major of the season, the Chevron Championship. MORE: Semi-retired Lexi Thompson shows she’s still got game In the midst of a round that had the 27-year-old vying to stay at the top of the leaderboard, Liu Read more…
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — There’s a noticeable difference between Lexi Thompson the semi-retired LPGA Tour player and the one who played fulltime on tour for 14 years. More vacations and down time. MORE: Making sense of the ‘zero torque’ putter craze Thompson, who announced her part-time status last year, hasn’t turned off that competitive streak, Read more…
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Lydia Ko had reason to celebrate, and it was more than just her birthday. Ko turned 28 on Thursday and after her first round one-over 73 at the Chevron Championship, she received a surprise cake. The beautiful dessert was a white cake with vanilla bean frosting and had pink flowers and Read more…
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Nelly Korda’s defense of her Chevron Championship title got off to such a rough start that the world’s top-ranked golfer is in serious danger of missing the cut in the LPGA’s first major of the year. Korda had a morning tee time during Thursday’s opening round at The Club at Carlton Read more…
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Jeeno Thitikul has remarkable perspective for a 22-year-old LPGA Tour star. She has 46 top-10 career finishes and four career wins. She’s in contention to win as much Caitlin Clark is to make 3-pointers in any given game. She has $10.4 million in career earnings. But she hasn’t won a major Read more…
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — There’s a term that doesn’t sit quite right with Swedish golfer Ingrid Lindblad. It’s a word given to people who are new at something. They often are inexperienced and need training. And, generally, there’s a different tone about it. In sports, it refers to someone in their first season. Rookie. “I Read more…
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Lilia Vu made the famous jump into the pond after her win the Chevron Championship here in 2023 for the first major title of her career. MORE: 15 players to watch in the Chevron Championship It was a core memory full of joy and excitement and euphoria. So very different from Read more…
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — The Chevron Championship is so much more than an LPGA major. The title sponsor has added many bells and whistles since taking over the tournament in 2022 and moving it to the Houston area in 2023, it all makes perfect sense when everything reputedly is bigger in Texas. It’s a coveted Read more…
The Chevron Championship at The Club at Carlton Woods outside of Houston starts on Thursday, and we’ve got the goods on players we think have the best shot to win.
TARZANA, Calif. — Japanese star Akie Iwai has dreams of winning a major and playing with her twin sister, Chisato, in a final pairing on the LPGA Tour. The 22-year-old identical twins took a significant step in that direction as they were paired together for the first time in an LPGA event Saturday in the Read more…
TARZANA, Calif. — Japanese rookie Akie Iwai is making her first LPGA start in the Los Angeles area. Luckily for the 22-year-old, the Dodgers were in town and Iwai had the chance to go to a game to see fellow countryman Shohei Ohtani. Asked if she was a fan, Iwai said: “Of course. Actually, we Read more…
TARZANA, Calif. — There are dozens of perks that come with winning a major, but one of the coolest for Nelly Korda in defending her Chevron Championship is working with a star-studded chef for her champions dinner menu. Korda is embracing her Czechoslovakian roots to kick off the LPGA’s first major of the year next Read more…
TARZANA, Calif. — Liz Moore is at one of the LPGA’s revered events just north of Los Angeles for a couple of days, and it’s certainly a happy place for golfers. The JM Eagle LA Championship is one of the tour’s beloved events—named event of the year in 2024—in the second-largest TV market in the Read more…
TARZANA, Calif. — How does Nelly Korda relax from the pressures of being the No. 1 golfer in the world and contending in LPGA events? Building Legos, of course. Korda posted about her new hobby from Arizona, where she played in the T-Mobile Match Play Championship but didn’t make the weekend Round of 16. She Read more…
TARZANA, Calif. — Asterisk Talley is becoming a household name in golf, yet she believes she has a lot to prove. The 16-year-old rising star enters the JM Eagle LA Championship on the heels of a second-place finish in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. She’s had such a great last year of golf that tournament Read more…
The LPGA’s commissioner search is down to two finalists who come from the golf industry, Alex Baldwin and Craig Kessler, according to a report by Golfweek. MORE: Augusta sensation Asterisk Talley and major winner Sophia Popov gets exemptions into LA Championship The search has been ongoing since late 2024 when Mollie Marcoux Samaan announced she Read more…
Rose Zhang has withdrawn from JM Eagle Championship, citing injury in an Instagram post, and her return to the LPGA is uncertain. Zhang didn’t indicate what the injury was but after she conceded two matches in pool play last week at the T-Mobile Match-Play, broadcasters talked about the injury appearing to be an upper body Read more…
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