The three-time LPGA winner, 31, announced on Instagram overnight (Australian time) that she is leaving the professional game and thanked friends, family and past caddies for their consistent support throughout her eight-year LPGA career.
[IMAGE: Dylan Buell] Not even a month away from the LPGA slowed down Lydia Ko’s run. Following a gold medal at the Paris Olympics in July to earn her place in the tour’s vaunted Hall of Fame and Ko’s third career major victory at the AIG Women’s Open last month at StAndrews, the 27-year-old delivered Read more…
The trophy is the same, but the venue is very different as Minjee Lee eyes off a title defence with a difference at this week’s Kroger Queen City Championship in Ohio.
At the end of a long week dominated by slow play that saw the opening two rounds both take about six hours to complete, the New Zealander reached the seven-under-par total that proved too strong for a formidable host of challengers down the stretch.
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.
Lauren Coughlin is getting good at this. Just under three years on from regaining full exempt status on the LPGA Tour and less than a month since she eliminated the tag “winless” from her career resume, the 31-year-old has multiple victories – both national Open titles – to her name.
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