Grace Kim will bring her rapidly rising star power back to Australian shores in March, with the major winner confirmed as an early marquee player for the 2026 Women’s Australian Open at Kooyonga Golf Course.
Professional golf this time of the year is generally called the silly season, to which Andrew Novak’s contribution to the silliness was his identifying his victory with Lauren Coughlin in the Grant Thornton Invitational as completing “the modern-day grand slam.”
If you pair professional golfers together in a scramble format in which they get to choose the best result of every shot, and give them benign weather and pristine greens, you’re rolling out a green carpet for crazy low numbers.
Thitikul walked away with all the goods in south-western Florida, even with an achy wrist that started to bother her last week; the huge cheque, the tournament title, the scoring record and LPGA Player of the Year honours.
It looked like Korda’s best option would be to play to the left, find the centre of the green and take the long birdie putt. Apparently she saw another line.
It’s almost unfathomable that Korda – ranked second in the world – has yet to win after a seven-victory season where she tied a record for winning five straight.
The tournament will switch in 2026 from The Club at Carlton Woods outside Houston across the city to Memorial Park Golf Course, where the PGA Tour holds its Texas Children’s Houston Open in March.
Early headlines at The Annika LPGA event were dominated by 18-year-old Kai Trump and WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark – to the point that Nelly Korda’s return to the course for her first start in six weeks became a secondary story. It’s not often that the 27-year-old is the understudy.
Kai Trump is teeing it up in her first LPGA event this week and undoubtedly got pre-tournament advice from the most unique mentors of any amateur golfer.
You don’t have to look any further than Instagram to understand why the most notable player at this week’s LPGA Tour event isn’t one of the top women’s professionals in the field, but rather an 18-year-old high school senior with a famous last name.
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Gianna Clemente, a high school senior and acclaimed junior golfer from Estero, Florida, doesn’t celebrate her 18th birthday until March 28. But she is aiming to earn an LPGA Tour card at next month’s LPGA Q Series