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…
This week’s LPGA tournament starts Zhang’s next test of changing her mindset from a Stanford University student to refocusing herself as a professional golfer, a challenge she looks forward to.
Sandra Gal says there were many times when she thought she’d never play professional golf again. Over the past six years, the 38-year-old LPGA veteran and two-time Solheim Cup player has suffered through myriad health issues, including extreme fatigue, a medical misdiagnosis, hip surgery, back pain and an unexpectedly long and arduous healing process that Read more…
There is no such thing as batting for the cycle in golf, but Amelia Garvey got as close as possible during her round Thursday on the NXXT Women’s Pro Tour. The Kiwi had scores of 1 through 6 on her card, including an albatross, ace, eagle, birdie, par, and bogey in recording a six-under 66 Read more…
US Solheim Cup captain Stacy Lewis announced that Paula Creamer, Brittany Lincicome, Morgan Pressel and Angela Stanford will be her four assistant captains for this year’s Solheim Cup.
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