According to the LPGA’s statistics, only two out of 165 players are averaging over par on the par 5s this season. The four par 5s at Pebble this week are averaging 5.06.
After so many years of battling under the shadow of the San Jacinto Mountain range, how do players prepare for a new date for the opening Major of the year on a new course with a new flow to the schedule leading into the tournament?
In advance of this week’s championship, we ranked the top 25 players we see as most likely to raise the Dinah Trophy at the end of the week and emerged a historic first winner at the Chevron’s new home.
Only two weeks after Cameron Smith came from four shots behind two overnight leaders to win the Open Championship at St Andrews, Ayaka Furue did the same to claim the Trust Golf Women’s Scottish Open.