Korda’s two-stroke victory over Maja Stark makes her one of three in LPGA history to win five straight starts, joining Hall of Famers Nancy Lopez (1978) and Annika Sorenstam (2004-2005).
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Nelly Korda enters Sunday at the Chevron Championship in prime position in her quest for five straight wins. She sits at 10 under par, tied with Brooke Henderson and a stroke off the lead of Atthaya Thitikul. The obstacles the final day presents amid this streak? After third-round play was suspended Read more…
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Ten years after Lexi Thompson’s lone major triumph at 19 years old in the 2014 ANA Inspiration (now Chevron Championship), Thompson missed the two-over cutline at the same major by six shots with scores of 78-74. It’s her sixth missed cut at a major over her last seven starts, with Thompson Read more…
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — The weight of Nelly Korda’s four-straight-victory run hasn’t yet lifted from her shoulders. Even with an off week before the Chevron Championship spending quality time with family, Korda, 25, felt at the start of her first round that her energy was at about 70 percent. As the gusting winds firmed up Read more…
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Lauren Coughlin giving her husband a chance at becoming her full-time caddie has led to some of the best golf of her career. John Pond had lobbied for the job after Coughlin left her caddie of three years following the Blue Bay LPGA in February. Coughlin gave him a chance at Read more…
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — With less than 100 days until the first round of Olympic golf is played in Paris, the first three Olympic golf broadcasters have been selected. An NBC spokesperson confirmed to Golf Digest that Karen Stupples, Morgan Pressel and Tom Abbott will broadcast women’s golf for NBC Sports in August. Stupples and Read more…
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — In South Korea, the generation has been called “Seri Pak’s Kids,” because it’s a group of young women who became inspired by the golf star’s ascendance with her watershed 1998 U.S. Women’s Open victory. In the decade that followed, huge amounts of girls took up the game, and the repercussions would Read more…
Zhang explained that while major venues test all of a player’s skills, there is extra emphasis for her in the short game and course management – lessons she learned in her eight majors as an amateur.
The Chevron Championship arrives as the LPGA Tour is in Nelly Korda’s orbit. The 25-year-old has won her last four starts in a row, starting at the LPGA Drive On in January. Then Korda took seven weeks off and returned to the tour by winning the LPGA’s last three events: the Fir Hills Se Ri Read more…
Korda’s 12th career title makes her the first to win four events in a row since Lorena Ochoa in 2008 and the first American to do so since Nancy Lopez in 1978.
Not even a format change can stop Nelly Korda’s LPGA tour de force. The No. 1 player in the Rolex Women’s World Rankings advanced to the final of the T-Mobile Match Play in Las Vegas after winning her quarterfinal and semifinal matches on Saturday. Korda will play Solheim Cup stalwart Leona Maguire at Shadow Creek Read more…
Rachel Heck, the first woman in Stanford golf history to win an individual NCAA title, announced in a first-person story on nolayingup.com Monday that she will not pursue a professional golf career. The Stanford senior will instead continue as one of the most decorated female amateur players in history and start a career in private Read more…
Korda’s second playoff win of the year returned her to No.1 in the Rolex Women’s World Rankings and already secured her first multiple-victory season since 2021.
South Korea’s So Yeon Ryu, a two-time major champion and six-time LPGA Tour winner, announced on Instagram yesterday that the Chevron Championship would be her last event before retiring.
PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. — The dreaded R-word popped up last September for the first time in Lizette Salas’ 13-year LPGA Tour career. After the 34-year-old spent months away from competition on medical leave due to back pain, the hyper-competitive Salas briefly thought retirement was imminent while watching the Solheim Cup from afar for the Read more…
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