Beneath the glamour of a season on the road – a new country every week, myriad hotel stays – is a deeply erratic lifestyle. For a majority of players, each week on the Ladies European Tour is a high-stakes gamble, and an expensive one at that.
West Australian Whitney Hillier carried the memory of fellow WPGA Tour of Australasia member Jessica Bang to a co-runner-up finish on the Ladies European Tour.
Kelsey Bennett has moved up to third on the Ladies European Tour Order of Merit after finishing fifth at the PIF London Championship, a week that also saw 17-year-old Anna Huang break an 11-year-old Lydia Ko record.
Nelly Korda has won four times thus far in 2026, so she’s of course going to be a player to watch at every tournament she enters. But there are more golfers to keep an eye on in France this week.
Carolina Chacarra collected her first professional victory on the Ladies European Tour at the Hulencourt Women’s Open. The 23-year-old from Spain shot a final-round 68 in Belgium to top Australia’s Kelsey Bennett by three shots.
Australia’s Kelsey Bennett will take a two-shot lead into the final round of the Hulencourt Women’s Open as she chases her second LET title of the year.
Hannah Green’s winning run shows no signs of slowing down after the world No.7 posted a bogey-free six-under 65 to assert early dominance at the Australian WPGA Championship at Sanctuary Cove Golf & Country Club.
The fatigue from finally winning the Australian Open is real, but Hannah Green is adamant that she wants more silverware at this week’s Australian WPGA Championship on the Gold Coast.
After an abridged inaugural staging in 2022 and a tournament wiped out by Cyclone Alfred 12 months ago, the Australian WPGA Championship gets its time to shine this week at Sanctuary Cove Golf & Country Club on the Gold Coast.
West Australians Hannah Green and Kirsten Rudgeley share second place at the halfway stage of the Women’s Australian Open, just one stroke behind France’s Celine Herbin.
Australian Golf Digest
