For all the clamour of more co-ed professional golf, the co-sanctioned mixed-team tournament is a beta test for potential expansion into more events with between players on the LPGA and PGA Tour.
For the first time this millennium, PGA Tour and LPGA Tour players will tee it up together in a co-sanctioned mixed-team event at this week’s Grant Thornton Invitational.
The story behind the smiley face on her visor says a lot about the 34-year-old LPGA veteran and the journey she has been on during her 16 years competing on tour.
Since 2016, the player who has won the LPGA’s first event of the season did not win again that year. The Canadian has one chance left to break that streak.
Here are six tour pros – major champions and Solheim Cuppers among them – who surprisingly won’t be travelling to Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida, this week.
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
Each woman in the field has an equal chance of winning, a notable change from years past where only about a dozen players statistically had a chance to win the $1 million bonus.