Zhang explained that while major venues test all of a player’s skills, there is extra emphasis for her in the short game and course management – lessons she learned in her eight majors as an amateur.
Despite stringing together some impressive results over the past month, including three top-15 finishes, rising star Gabi Ruffels will enter the season’s first major championship with something so much more valuable than form itself.
Wales’ Lydia Hall has been crowned the first Women’s World Sand Greens champion after an all-world up-and-down on the final hole at Walcha Golf Club in New South Wales.
Korda’s 12th career title makes her the first to win four events in a row since Lorena Ochoa in 2008 and the first American to do so since Nancy Lopez in 1978.
England’s Lottie Woad punctuated a comeback from a stumble with three birdies in the last four holes – including a converted 15-footer at the 18th – to capture the 2024 Augusta National Women’s Amateur.
With one of the sweetest swings in the sport, the kind that leave her male counterparts on the PGA Tour awestruck, why is Nelly Korda using a driver that seems to be made for choppers?
Korda’s second playoff win of the year returned her to No.1 in the Rolex Women’s World Rankings and already secured her first multiple-victory season since 2021.
The final day was all about Korea, with Oh, Hyosong Lee, and Shihyun Kim combining for an incredible 11-under-par last round to seal an impressive victory.
South Korea’s So Yeon Ryu, a two-time major champion and six-time LPGA Tour winner, announced on Instagram yesterday that the Chevron Championship would be her last event before retiring.