The LPGA’s commissioner search is down to two finalists who come from the golf industry, Alex Baldwin and Craig Kessler, according to a report by Golfweek. MORE: Augusta sensation Asterisk Talley and major winner Sophia Popov gets exemptions into LA Championship The search has been ongoing since late 2024 when Mollie Marcoux Samaan announced she Read more…
Rose Zhang has withdrawn from JM Eagle Championship, citing injury in an Instagram post, and her return to the LPGA is uncertain. Zhang didn’t indicate what the injury was but after she conceded two matches in pool play last week at the T-Mobile Match-Play, broadcasters talked about the injury appearing to be an upper body Read more…
[PHOTOS: Mike Mulholland] Hyo Joo Kim had a visitor on the last hole of her final round today. She found a ladybug on her ball on the 18th fairway at Whirlwind Golf Club. She carefully tried to help move it along with hand motions near the ladybug. Just as she and her caddie wondered aloud Read more…
Everything was lost in Mo Martin’s childhood home in Altadena, Calif., due to the devastating Easton Fire in January. That includes items from junior golf photos to UCLA awards. And then the most treasured trophy from winning the Women’s British Open. Martin eagled the 18th hole at Royal Birkdale in England to win in 2014. Read more…
Lottie Woad has played some phenomenal golf as an amateur, and she reached a new level of fame when she won the Augusta National Women’s Amateur last April. The Florida State junior and top-ranked female amateur in the world heads back to Georgia this week to defend her title, and there’s another perk looming as Read more…
Nelly Korda is back to defend her title at the Ford Championship, and the World No. 1 sure hopes to recreate the mindset she had 12 months ago. Korda was on a heater, fresh off wins at the LPGA Drive On Championship and Fir Hills SeRi Pak Championship. That run of torrid play continued at Read more…
Rose Zhang is back competing on the LPGA Tour this week at the Ford Championship after a break to get in another quarter of classes at Stanford. This year, she had a different strategy for sharing time with her books—continuing to pursue her degree despite turning pro after her sophomore year—and her clubs. She actually Read more…
Angela Stanford thought she had made a good case to become the next U.S. captain for the Solheim Cup. Yet, she mapped out the timing of when she thought the next captain would be announced and grew worried. She was so concerned that she didn’t feel well for nearly a week. By the time Stanford Read more…
Charley Hull wasn’t feeling her best before the third round of the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore. Being sick and throwing up didn’t stop her from getting in a run before the third round, nor did it keep her from putting herself into contention to win on the LPGA Tour. Hull scored a four-under Read more…
Nelly Korda is helping junior golfers in a major way. The Nelly Invitational winner—the AJGA event that World No. 1 Korda hosts—will now receive a special exemption into the Chevron Championship, the LPGA’s first major of the season Chevron is also the new partner for the Nelly Invitational as it signed a three-year deal with Read more…
LPGA rookie Akie Iwai undoubtedly earned a new fan base with her impressive performance in finishing second to Angel Yin in the Honda LPGA Thailand on Sunday. The 22-year-old Japanese star led the first two rounds of that tournament, and she and Yin had a thrilling battle on the back nine that went to the Read more…
Yin shot a final-round seven-under 65 to secure a one-stroke win while breaking the LPGA’s all-time 72-hole scoring record in relation to par with a 28-under 260 total.
The LPGA Tour has filed a complaint in federal court seeking to recover unpaid money from the 2024 and 2025 seasons by the parent company of its longtime Korean broadcast partner, JTBC.
ALTADENA, Calif. — Bill Fennessy grew up a few blocks away from the Altadena Golf Course. At 14, he had his first job there, where he picked up range balls and charged golf carts. He bought his first set of clubs there. He’s played golf at the nine-hole public course for 52 years and has Read more…
A LPGA spokesperson confirmed an updated pace-of-play policy was shared with players and will go into effect during the Ford Championship in March but said specifics of the policy would be made public next week.
Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, LeBron James and … Rose Zhang? At only 21, the LPGA star and record-setting amateur has accomplished so much in her young career. And now Zhang has reached another sporting and cultural milestone by getting her own trading card set and memorabilia collection, like many of the world’s biggest stars. Upper Read more…
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