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.
Lexi Thompson needs a big week this week in Florida at the penultimate LPGA tournament of 2023 if the 28-year-old doesn’t want it to be the last week of her season. And she’s going to have to do it while not at full health.
For the third week in a row, the LPGA Tour needed a playoff to determine a winner. And this one nearly set the record for the longest playoff in tour history.
Golf certainly has had its share of rules issues over the years, but it’s rare when there’s one in which the person who originally brought an infraction to the forefront regarding a playing partner ultimately is disqualified because of a separate broken rule.
It took a solid 48 hours before Lilia Vu finally felt like a major champion. The whirlwind Sunday at the Chevron Championship didn’t allow her to sit back and take in all that she had accomplished, having birdied the last two holes in regulation at the Club at Carlton Woods outside Houston, then winning with birdie in the first extra playoff hole.
Multiple sources who attended the meeting tell Golf Digest that the discussion did not include many specifics regarding what a merger might look like. Rather, LPGA officials spoke more broadly about TV viewership goals, purse growth and how a merger could grow women’s golf overall.
LPGA officials announced Thursday that the Taiwan Swinging Skirts LPGA, slated for October 26-29, has been canceled due to “operational factors.” The tournament was last held in 2019 when Nelly Korda successfully defended her first-ever LPGA title.
The shot of one golfer’s life turned into the highlight-reel of his life thanks to some fortunate timing. Look, you need a little luck to make an albatross, but to make one while cameras happen to be rolling? Well, that’s a belated St. Patrick’s Day miracle.
Australian Golf Digest
