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.
The set includes driver, fairway woods, hybrids and irons, and the entire group reflects the commitment to distance through a different understanding of how women players create swing speed and ball speed and how clubs can be manufactured to better line up with the speeds these golfers create.
A day after Hank Haney was suspended from PGA Tour Radio for controversial comments he made regarding women’s golf and Koreans, the swing coach’s most famous former student weighed in. And Tiger Woods made clear what he thought of the situation.
It was a tournament that Japan’s Nasa Hataoka wanted to win more than others, but to do so required a timely assist, and Australia’s Minjee Lee provided her one.