The American continued her stellar play with a four-under 68 in the opening round of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship to take the outright lead after the first round of a major for the first time in her 13-year career. Meanwhile, world No.5 Hannah Green is the best-placed Australian.
Ahead of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, Korda and long-time caddie Jason McDede subtly changed their club-selection process to give the 25-year-old more responsibility on her club choices at Sahalee Country Club.
Since the Olympics’ reintroduction of golf at the 2016 Games, the women’s tournament has been a reflection of the dominant country’s success at the time on the LPGA Tour. The two gold medalists, Inbee Park (2016) and Nelly Korda (2020), came from nations that sent four players to the Olympics, an opportunity only allowed if Read more…
Nearly a week after six-time LPGA winner Nasa Hataoka was disqualified from the ShopRite LPGA Classic after she signed an incorrect scorecard because she was deemed to have taken too long to search for her ball, the Japanese star posted on social media a long and critical response.
Strom, who birdied her 36th hole just to make the cut, earned her first career LPGA title to shatter the tour’s previous record held by Ayako Okamoto at the 1987 Lady Keystone Open (T-23) for the biggest comeback by position.
The expectations were kept to a minimum for Arpichaya Yubol headed into Sunday at the U.S. Women’s Open. The Thai somehow managed to end up in eighth place through 54 holes despite missing six straight cuts going into her debut at the championship. Her third round two-under 68 was Yubol’s first red-figure round since late Read more…
Charley Hull has had a plenty decorated professional golf career. The Englishwoman has won twice on the LPGA Tour, played in six Solheim Cups, and gave a late-Sunday charge at last year’s U.S. Women’s Open, ripping a fairway wood from under the cypress tree on Pebble Beach’s famed 18th to try and chase down her Read more…
Wichanee Meechai finds herself navigating uncharted waters at the U.S. Women’s Open, where the eight-year LPGA Tour veteran is in a thrilling three-way tie for the lead alongside LPGA winners Minjee Lee and Andrea Lee at five under. On Saturday, the Thai displayed remarkable poise under pressure, shooting an impressive one-under 69 despite battling what Read more…
This U.S. Women’s Open witnessed a trio of performances that will likely never happen together again. Thursday at Lancaster Country Club, major champions Brooke Henderson, Lydia Ko, and Nelly Korda each shot 10-over-par 80. It was the second round ever in the 80s for Henderson, with the fourth for Korda and fifth for Ko. Even Read more…
Lancaster Country Club sapped Nelly Korda’s superpowers Thursday, with the six-time winner this season carding an 80, the first 10-over-par round of her eight-year career. On Friday, needing a red-figure effort to make the weekend, Korda’s talent emerged with an even-par 70, but the 10-stroke turnaround still was not enough for the World No. 1 Read more…
A May to remember continues for Adela Cernousek. It began three weeks ago when the 20-year-old from France qualified for her first U.S. Women’s Open. Ten days later, the Texas A&M junior pulled off the biggest win of her career by claiming the 2024 NCAA individual title at Omni La Costa Resort. The momentum continued Read more…
With an impressive six-win season achieved before the close of May, Nelly Korda is the primary beneficiary of the LPGA Tour’s groundbreaking purse increases and on the brink of entering uncharted fiscal territory. Korda’s current earnings stand at $2,943,708 from just eight events in 2024, already garnering the eighth-most money in a single season in Read more…
Lexi Thompson announced on Tuesday ahead of this week’s U.S. Women’s Open that she’ll retire at the end of this season. Fittingly, the 29-year-old has been synonymous with the national championship since qualifying for the major in 2007 when she was just 12, starting a streak of 18 consecutive appearances before turning 30. It’s another Read more…
A winner of 14 LPGA events, Korda has notched nearly half of them in only eight starts this season. She is only the fourth player in LPGA history to win at least six times before June.
Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson missed qualifying for the U.S. Women’s Open on Monday by one stroke. Davidson finished in a three-way tie for third in the 36-hole qualifier at Bradenton (Fla.) Country Club with rounds of 70-73, emerging as the first alternate from the event. She tied two-time LPGA Tour winner Jasmine Suwannapura and Louis Read more…
Nelly Korda’s bid for an historic six wins in a row on the LPGA are all but gone in the Cognizant Founders Cup. The World No. 1 shot a one-over 73 on Saturday at Upper Montclair Country Club and sits 11 shots off the lead of Swede Madelene Sagstrom heading into the final round. The Read more…
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