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In prevailing conditions – strong winds and heavy showers – that have done nothing for the case that Scotland really does have a summer, Korda’s creative shot-making and solid putting has been extraordinary indeed.
In winds that gusted to more than 40mph, as many as 16 members of the 144-strong field gathered in the Home of Golf for the AIG Women’s Open Championship managed to eke out scores in red figures.
Perhaps that’s not the best example to set for impressionable young fans, but Hull is just following in the footsteps of John Daly, Arnold Palmer and Ben Hogan. That’s mighty fine company to be in.
It was her first victory as a professional and came on one of golf’s grandest stages, earning her a payday of $US2 million, the largest in women’s golf.
The top two players from England in the Rolex Women’s World Rankings did not reach out to their remaining teammates, Bronte Law and Jodi Ewart Shadoff, leading to a palpable hot temperature during their first interview.
The 25-year-old Canadian had led after the first three rounds and seemed very much in control of her game en route to her 13th career LPGA title, despite the fact that only the previous weekend she figured out what clubs she was going to be using.
Charley Hull and Mackenzie Hughes won their first titles on the LPGA and PGA Tours one day apart in 2016. They both won their second career titles on the same day this past Sunday.
There was always going to be something historic about this week’s Aramco Team Series-New York event at Glen Oaks Club on Long Island given it was the first Ladies European Tour event ever to be played in the United States. But the finish created its own novelty.