First-time LPGA winners Yana Wilson and Gina Kim took out the 2026 Dow Championship and Wilson’s lesson from alternate shot golf is one every golfer should hear.
The LPGA needs and wants to capitalise on Korda’s star power and translate it into higher ratings and ticket sales and more. Which is why Monday was a good day for the tour.
An unlikely partnership became a winning one at the LPGA’s Dow Championship, with Yana Wilson and Gina Kim securing their maiden LPGA titles after a final-round charge and a little help from ChatGPT.
It was American golf’s moment. And it most certainly should be a moment that shakes awake everyone in charge of the game at all levels of women’s golf.
At 27, Korda is the youngest American to win four majors since Mickey Wright in 1960. She also is the first woman since Inbee Park in 2013 to capture two majors in a season.
The outcome of her final putt was nearly a nightmare – but it turned into a moment that Nelly Korda will be able to laugh about for the rest of her career.
Feeling comfortable with her choice of lines and simply believing the famous layout fit her eye, Kupcho shot a five-under 66 on the opening day to lead the US Women’s Open by one stroke after the first round.
There will be a mix of three major winners and two US Women’s Open debutants among the Aussie contingent when the second LPGA major of the year tees off at iconic Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles on Thursday.
Who should be on your radar for the year’s second women’s major? Here are 10 players we’ll be watching, appearing in their order on the Rolex Women’s Rankings, from lowest to highest.
The 11-time LPGA Tour winner qualified for her first US Women’s Open in 2007 as a 12-year-old amateur and has competed every year since, a streak ending this week at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles.
World No.6 Hannah Green has reflected and reset as she sets her sights on more major championship glory at this week’s US Women’s Open at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles.
Celine Boutier’s inspiring pre-round meeting with young cancer patient Evelyn King-White helped set the tone for her emotional ShopRite LPGA Classic victory.
The six Aussies in the Jabra Ladies Open de France field at Evian Resort this week, Stephanie Bunque, Kelsey Bennett, Kirsten Rudgeley, Maddison Hinson-Tolchard, Justice Bosio and Whitney Hillier, along with reserve Belinda Ji, were all invited by the LET to recreate Grace Kim’s historic shot during a practice round.
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