The Webex Players Series Murray River has been a tournament dominated by the women – if the men hope to end that trend in 2024, they will have to contend with a larger and deeper field of players from the WPGA Tour of Australasia.
Coming to the end of her remarkable rookie season on the LPGA Tour, Australian Grace Kim has confirmed she will return home for the ISPS HANDA Australian Open in Sydney alongside former world No.1 and 2013 champion Jiyai Shin of Korea.
Sarah Jane Smith broke a long drought and added her name to the handful of women to have beaten the men in Webex Players Series events with a brilliant close-out performance at Cobram Barooga today in the TPS Murray River tournament.
Kim took home $30,000 in prizemoney and was joined by fellow Australians Sarah Jane Smith (T2) and Robyn Choi (T4) in the top section of the leaderboard.
WPGA Tour Australasia chief executive Karen Lunn and long-time touring professional Sarah Jane Smith did the honours on the balcony of Royal Queensland’s clubhouse on Monday in the absence of the seven-time Major champion, who is at her US home in Florida this week.
For the first time in the history of the LPGA Tour, the Q-Series will be conducted over two weeks with Robyn Choi, Karis Davidson, Stephanie Kyriacou and Sarah Jane Smith earning exemptions in a variety of different ways.
LPGA players were anxious to get back on the course at the Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic. But thus far it’s been a game of hurry up and wait at the Ocean Club.
The long-hitting Aussie set up her round with an eagle on the par-five sixth hole and then made three birdies on the back nine in one of the rounds of her career.
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