NAPLES, Fla. — While 60 LPGA players are in the field at this week’s CME Group Tour Championship, 62 will be walking the course during the LPGA Tour’s final event of the 2023 season. Maria Fassi and Jessica Korda, who are not playing at Tiburon Golf Club, will be on-air talents doing on-course reporting and Read more…
Zhang said she will have five classes during Stanford’s winter quarter, taking on a loaded 22-unit schedule. She is about halfway through the requirements to earn her degree.
Since 2016, the player who has won the LPGA’s first event of the season did not win again that year. The Canadian has one chance left to break that streak.
The largest payday being claimed on the LPGA Tour this week is likely to go to someone who isn’t even playing at the Annika driven by Gainbridge, the penultimate event on the 2023 calendar.
This week’s Annika driven by Gainbridge tournament serves as the LPGA’s last call for players vying to earn their way into the CME Group Tour Championship as well as save their cards for the 2024 season.
Rose Zhang has marked another first in her debut LPGA Tour season by changing her caddie. Zhang replaced Jason Gilroyed, who looped for Zhang since she turned professional, including her debut victory in June’s Mizuho Americas Open, with Olly Brett for the remainder of the 2023 season. The new partnership started at last week’s Maybank Read more…
An Angel Yin press conference is guaranteed to bring laughs, and it only took the first question Wednesday in Malaysia ahead of the Maybank Championship for hilarity to ensue. Asked about the support Yin has received since her first career LPGA victory at the Buick LPGA Shanghai two weeks ago, she got called out by Read more…
The alliance between the LPGA Tour and the Ladies European Tour is set to grow stronger in 2024. Multiple sources tell Golf Digest that principals on both sides of the Atlantic have agreed to a plan where the top four players off next year’s LET Race to Costa Del Sol season-long points list will be Read more…
Kristen Gillman’s redemptive season on the Epson Tour came down to the final two holes of the Tour Championship. Starting the week in 13th place on the tour’s Race for the Card standings, three spots away from earning an LPGA card for 2024, the 26-year-old peered over at the leaderboard while walking off the 16th Read more…
The Kiwi has struggled with her game this year. So much so that the 26-year-old finds herself in the precarious position of possibly not being in the field to defend two of her titles, the BMW Ladies Championship in October and the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship in November.
If U.S. Solheim Cup captain Stacy Lewis stepped into Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Va., today for the rematch against Europe after it retained the Solheim Cup in Spain, her roster would look similar to the one she had last week. With a season of points already being earned, Lewis’ nine automatic qualifiers Read more…
You would be forgiven if you forgot about Caroline Hedwall was playing for Europe at the Solheim Cup. Suzann Pettersen did not dust off her captain’s pick until Saturday afternoon four-balls. But instead of being an afterthought, the 34-year-old Swede delivered one of the best stretches of golf on Sunday in Solheim Cup history, going Read more…
Preparedness is a core tenet of U.S. Solheim Cup captain Stacy Lewis’s philosophy heading into Finca Cortesin this year, emphasizing that there should be no surprises for her 12 American players from when they first step foot in Spain through the end of the competition. The priority ties back to Lewis’s first taste of the Read more…
Faced with stopping the Americans’ slide on foreign soil and crucially flipping the momentum of the matches, US captain Stacy Lewis has spent plenty of time processing the gravity of what this year’s Solheim Cup means for her team and its future.
Since the last time the Solheim Cup was played in 2021 at Inverness Club, Europeans and Americans have dominated the LPGA Tour. Of the 24 competing this week as the biennial event comes to Finca Cortesin, 16 have won on the LPGA in that time, with nine of them combining for 13 wins on the Read more…
All eight players in line for automatic spots heading into the week held their places, while six of the eight qualifiers have previous experience in the Solheim Cup.
Pano turned 19 on Sunday, but she’s a name golf fans have heard of for a decade now after having the early days of her junior golf career chronicled in the Netflix documentary “The Short Game” while competing at the US Kids World Golf Championship at Pinehurst.
The weekend has arrived at the AIG Women’s Open as Ally Ewing holds a five-stroke lead at 10 under par after 36 holes. American compatriot Andrea Lee, U.S. Women’s Open runner-up Charley Hull, and Japan’s Minami Katsu form the closest chase group at five under.
Can she, at 28, maintain her spot for her sixth consecutive Solheim Cup team? And even stranger to ponder, can the 11-time winner maintain full LPGA status?
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