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Sophia popov

March 23rd, 2025

LPGA clerical error leads to ineligible player in tournaments and 3 others who were left out, including an Aussie

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June 1st, 2024

Lancaster test for US Women’s Open has been more brutal than USGA expected

In every respect, the difficulty of Lancaster has outpaced itself from the US Women’s Open the Pennsylvania course held nine years ago.

October 18th, 2021

Watch the first Ladies European Tour event played in the USA end in the dark under floodlights

There was always going to be something historic about this week’s Aramco Team Series-New York event at Glen Oaks Club on Long Island given it was the first Ladies European Tour event ever to be played in the United States. But the finish created its own novelty.

June 25th, 2021

Danielle Kang can’t stand rangefinders or green-reading books; opinion divided in women’s game

Kang is only 28 years old, but clearly has a throwback mentality when it comes to technological advances. Not all of her competitors agree.

May 31st, 2021

A fatigued Ally Ewing is the last woman standing – barely – at the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play

Ewing claimed a rare matchplay tournament on the LPGA Tour on her one-year wedding anniversary.

March 25th, 2021

Getting Back In The Game

December 16th, 2020

Why you won’t be seeing two of this year’s four Major winners at the LPGA Tour season finale

Due to a unique set of circumstance that begins with COVID-19 pandemic, new US Women’s Open champion A Lim Kim and Women’s British Open winner Sophia Popov will not be playing at Tiburón Golf Club in Naples, Florida

August 31st, 2020

Germany’s Aline Krauter follows countrywoman Sophia Popov’s lead, wins Women’s British Amateur title

With the victory, Krauter earns an exemption into next year’s Women’s British Open at Carnoustie. The Women’s British Amateur winner also typically gets a spot in the US Women’s Open and the Evian Championship.

August 30th, 2020

Commissioner Mike Whan stands by controversial decisions not to alter LPGA regulations to accommodate Sophia Popov

Sophia Popov of Germany became a Major champion and a cause celebre, all in a matter of days, when it was revealed that her improbable victory in the AIG Women’s British Open on Sunday earned her only a two-year LPGA exemption rather than five and no exemption into the next women’s Major, the ANA Inspiration in two weeks.

August 28th, 2020

Sophia Popov officially makes the biggest one-week jump in the Rolex Women’s World Rankings history

Prior to Popov’s accomplishment, the biggest jump in rankings happened in 2007.

Here’s the prizemoney payout for each golfer at the 2020 AIG Women’s British Open

Sophia Popov’s winner’s bag from the AIG Women’s Open

Minjee Lee bows to Sophia Popov’s Open heroics

Sophia Popov overcomes losing her LPGA card, long battle with Lyme disease to win AIG Women’s British Open

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