Gole, 56, in the midst of a stellar 2024 that includes six earlier victories, one of them in the R&A Women’s Senior Amateur, defeated Canadian Shelly Stouffer, 3&2.
The three-time LPGA winner, 31, announced on Instagram overnight (Australian time) that she is leaving the professional game and thanked friends, family and past caddies for their consistent support throughout her eight-year LPGA career.
[IMAGE: Dylan Buell] Not even a month away from the LPGA slowed down Lydia Ko’s run. Following a gold medal at the Paris Olympics in July to earn her place in the tour’s vaunted Hall of Fame and Ko’s third career major victory at the AIG Women’s Open last month at StAndrews, the 27-year-old delivered Read more…
The trophy is the same, but the venue is very different as Minjee Lee eyes off a title defence with a difference at this week’s Kroger Queen City Championship in Ohio.
Lewis has now helped her team earn a tie in Spain in 2023 and a streak-snapping home victory this year at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, sweating out a 15½-12½ win to lift the Solheim Cup for the first time since 2017.
After losing the Solheim Cup for the first time since 2017, the European captains certainly felt the pain of defeat. But in that pain, they also found tenderness, an understanding that while the shots hit in the moment seem like everything, they’re really a piece of something more than the match at hand.
Zhang joins Dottie Pepper (1998) and Morgan Pressel (2011) as the only US players to ever score 4 points in a Solheim Cup. She bettered Pepper and Pressel’s record, however, by never having a match get to the 17th hole. That’s a Solheim Cup record.
Thompson’s impact goes beyond her 9-7-7 career record, as multiple captains lauded her for how she sets a tone for the American’s ethos with her team-first attitude.
US Solheim Cup captain Stacy Lewis felt the game missed a chance to promote itself with the Ryder Cup and Solheim Cup being held in the same year in 2023. Her next big suggestion for the two tours to grow the game is to make the Presidents Cup a blended event.
While the teams have only seen a different nine each at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, every player that came to the media centre on Tuesday (US time) laughed at how much easier getting around the course is compared to the hilly Finca Cortesin nestled among the Estepona Mountains in Andalucia, Spain, a year ago.
Virginia’s Robert Trent Jones Golf Club wasn’t designed by its namesake purposefully for matchplay, but it assumed status as one of the USA’s premier team-competition venues.
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