It’s AIG Women’s British Open week at Royal Porthcawl, but we’re still talking about Grace Kim’s incredible win at the Evian. It was only two weeks ago that Kim hit a hybrid to a foot on the final hole of regulation to force a playoff with Jeeno Thitikul. She then holed out an improbable chip Read more…
To win the AIG Women’s British Open, you need a great short game. Links golf challenges in a different way, demanding creativity and an ability to convert pars from difficult positions. And to save par, you need a short game that can stand up to the test. These three AIG Women’s Open winners, Inbee Park, Read more…
Loving the Open Championship means loving links golf. There’s something so refreshing about watching players hit shots we don’t usually see, in weather we’d usually try to avoid. To play links golf well, there are a few shots you need to be able to hit. On a trip to Scotland, Jason Guss, a Golf Digest Read more…
The LPGA Tour is in the midst of a strenuous stretch of the 2025 schedule: This is the third major in seven weeks. Anyone can miss a cut at a major at any time, but factor in the quick succession of majors, and it’s not a surprise that even some top players missed the cut Read more…
Australia’s Grace Kim says this simple shot is going to get you landing the ball softly with little runout, and it’s a whole lot easier to hit than the flop shot.
A major championship is as good of a time as any to make your first LPGA Tour hole in one. Leona Maguire aced the second hole at the Amundi Evian Championship during the first round of the major. The hole-in-one helped her along to a six-under 65 and a tie for the clubhouse lead. “It Read more…
Charley Hull’s bid to claim her first career major title at this week’s Amundi Evian Championship was cut short in a scary turn of events during Thursday’s opening round that ultimately led to her withdrawing from the tournament.
Jack Nicklaus said what many were thinking after Rory McIlroy won the Masters: “It will take the world off his shoulders and you’re now going to see a lot more of really good golf out of Rory McIlroy,” Nicklaus said during the CBS broadcast. After 11 years of trying to complete the Grand Slam, McIlroy Read more…
There are two par 4s at Fields Ranch East in Frisco, Texas, that were reachable during the third round of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. That is, they were reachable for the players who can hit it over 300 yards. The seventh hole played 311 yards and the 15th was 236 yards (which is the Read more…
Lexi Thompson is in the mix at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. After two rounds, she’s in solo fourth, four shots behind leader Jeeno Thitikul. But she didn’t get there without a little extra stress. During Thompson’s second round on Friday, in which she shot two-under 70, her group was put on the clock. “Yeah, Read more…
If you feel like you’re seeing more women on the golf course than ever before, you’re right. According to the National Golf Foundation (NGF), a record 28 percent of all on-course golfers in 2024 were women. The total number of women golfers increased to nearly 8 million, marking the fifth consecutive year that the number Read more…
There are many mystical experiences you’ll encounter as a parent, but one of the greatest is sharing the things you love with your children, and watching them fall in love with them, too. Parents who play golf feel this viscerally, because if you see your child fall in love with the game, you know you’re Read more…
Nelly Korda has categorised her relationship with the US Women’s Open as “complicated.” She believes she’s more emotional about this major because the first time she played in it she was 14.
As the final groups began their rounds on Sunday, Thompson posted on Instagram about her experience at Erin Hills. She began by thanking the USGA, fans and volunteers for their efforts and saying that she didn’t have the week she’d hoped she would. And then she got into the pace of play.
Kiara Romero had no idea she was making history. She was just freewheeling it at Erin Hills on Sunday at the U.S. Women’s Open. After a brutal Saturday where she shot 84, Romero found herself at the bottom of the leaderboard. Instead of feeling defeated, Romero saw it as an opportunity. “I think just knowing Read more…
While playing in China at the Blue Bay LPGA in March, Julia Lopez Ramirez felt pain in her stomach. She thought it was food poisoning. She kept playing, ended up missing the cut, and flew home. The pain continued, so she went to a doctor. “I thought it was like food and I just wasn’t Read more…
The U.S. Women’s Open doesn’t care if players have won majors before. It doesn’t care if players are ranked in the top 10 in the world. Anyone can miss the cut. With Map Sago is in the lead at eight under, and Nelly Korda and others sitting three shots back, the U.S. Women’s Open at Read more…
You’ve probably never heard of Chiara Tamburlini, and she knows you haven’t heard of her. “I feel like no one knows my name, which is okay,” the 25-year-old hailing from Switzerland says. The relative unknown is near the top of the leaderboard at the 2025 U.S. Women’s Open at Erin Hills. She posted rounds of Read more…
When you wonder what it’s like to play the U.S. Women’s Open, you probably think about thick rough and greens so fast they’ll give you night terrors. When you see pros take their wedges out to advance the ball out of the rough, you get a good sense of how dense it must be. But Read more…
Style in golf shoes is nuanced. You want something that gives you confidence – not only in terms of visual panache but more importantly, in how they perform. Consider that walking 18 holesrequires approximately 10,000 steps. There’s simply no disputing that a properly fit pair of the right shoes will help you perform better athletically. Read more…
Women’s Golf Day, in its 10th year, celebrates women in golf. And this year is certainly a good time to be excited about women’s golf. The National Golf Foundation has found that 7.8 million women and girls played golf on-course in 2024, making up 28 percent of all U.S. golfers. That’s the highest number of Read more…
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