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.
From bumping into Nelly Korda at registration to watching Grace Kim practise over breakfast, Kelsey Bennett has had a starstruck lead-up to just her second career major at this week’s Amundi Evian Championship.
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.
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.
The six Aussies in the Jabra Ladies Open de France field at Evian Resort this week, Stephanie Bunque, Kelsey Bennett, Kirsten Rudgeley, Maddison Hinson-Tolchard, Justice Bosio and Whitney Hillier, along with reserve Belinda Ji, were all invited by the LET to recreate Grace Kim’s historic shot during a practice round.
Kelsey Bennett came within touching distance of another Ladies European Tour victory in Morocco before Canadian teen Anna Huang produced a history-making final round at the Lalla Meryem Cup. The Queenslander’s runner-up finish continues her outstanding 2026 campaign and cements her place among the LET’s form players.
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.
Kelsey Bennett leads the home charge at the Women’s Australian Open, sitting three strokes behind first-round leader Darcey Harry from Wales at Kooyonga Golf Club.
Five-time champion Karrie Webb has urged Australia’s modern stars to ride the wave of home crowd support in their quest to end a more-than-decade-long drought at the Women’s Australian Open starting today at Kooyonga Golf Club in Adelaide.
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