Articles by Kent Paisley

November 18th, 2024

Nelly Korda hadn’t competed in two months but shows up at Annika’s event and dominates to earn record seventh win

This is the first time since Yani Tseng in 2011 that someone has won seven times in a year, and Korda is the first American to accomplish the feat since Hall of Famer Beth Daniel did so in 1990.

November 18th, 2024

With tears in her eyes and family by her side, Brittany Lincicome walks into retirement after a beautiful 20-year ride

Lincicome realised she wanted to retire only a few months ago. As recently as July, she told friends that she still had 10 years left in the tank, feeling she still had the game even though her head often got in the way.

November 16th, 2024

Competing for 28th time this season, Alexa Pano is learning some tour lessons the hard way

An LPGA sophomore season is usually defined by players picking and choosing their events after sampling as many courses as possible during their rookie year. They start finding a season-long rhythm, discovering a daily routine, how to book their travel, when to practice, how many events in a row their body can handle before taking Read more…

November 10th, 2024

A Lim Kim finally backs up major win with Lotte Championship triumph

Kim’s win ensures the 29-year-old South Korean’s spot in the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship, jumping her from 65th to 22nd in the points standings.

November 10th, 2024

LPGA stalwart Angela Stanford goes into retirement battling to the end

As Angela Stanford’s putt trickled towards the hole, she couldn’t help but smile. Her 20-footer for birdie on the 72nd hole of the Lotte Championship on Saturday tracked to the cup, but slowed its roll, ending up two feet shy. Had her ball fallen in, Stanford would have earned her way into next week’s Pelican Read more…

November 6th, 2024

A major champion in danger of losing her card and six other pros in the hot seat as the LPGA season hits its home stretch

For many players, the magic number is 100, as in making sure to be inside the top 100 in CME points to keep full status on the LPGA Tour in 2025.

November 5th, 2024

Although 3 events remain, Nelly Korda has wrapped up the LPGA’s Player of the Year award

It’s the first time she’s won the award, this one for her impressive, yet sometimes turbulent, six-win campaign.

November 4th, 2024

Japan LPGA’s top player erases late three-shot deficit to claim eighth season title on sixth playoff hole

The Toto Japan Classic, which is co-sanctioned by the LPGA and Japan LPGA, came down to a marathon six-hole playoff, with one representative from each tour vying for the title.

November 2nd, 2024

LPGA’s Toto Japan Classic reduced to 54 holes after tropical storm wipes out third round

The LPGA released a joint statement with the Japan LPGA, who co-sanctions the event, that due to the postponement, the tournament will be reduced to 54 holes.

October 28th, 2024

With a birdie on the last hole in Malaysia, Ruoning Yin captures her second LPGA title this month

The LPGA’s Maybank Championship in Malaysia came down to a pair of former world No.1s.

October 26th, 2024

LPGA sets up 96-yard par 3, and of course there were holes-in-one

Three aces came in a flurry during the third round of the LPGA Tour’s Maybank Championship on one of the shortest par-3s the tour plays. The 96-yard par-3 fourth at Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club in Malaysia was playing 32 yards shorter than in the second round. MORE: College stars make different decisions after Read more…

October 26th, 2024

College stars finish high in LPGA Q School second stage and take different paths in their decisions to turn pro

Two of the top amateur finishers at the second stage of the LPGA Tour’s qualifying school walked off Plantation Golf Club in Venice, Fla., on Friday facing career-altering decisions. Adela Cernousek, the 2024 NCAA individual champion out of Texas A&M, and UCLA’s Zoe Campos, No. 10 in the Women’s Amateur Golf Ranking, have to give Read more…

October 20th, 2024

Hannah Green hangs on at the BMW Ladies Championship while continuing to etch her name in Australian golf history

The BMW Ladies Championship remains in Australian hands. After Minjee Lee won the LPGA’s lone tournament in South Korea last year, Hannah Green went wire-to-wire at Seowon Hills Country Club for her third win of 2024, closing with a 71 to hang on for a one-stroke victory for her sixth career title. Leaderboard Win: Hannah Read more…

October 13th, 2024

How a long-distance phone led to a runaway victory for this major champion at the Buick LPGA Shanghai

The former world No.1 went bogey-free for her final 50 holes in front of her hometown fans to shatter the tournament-scoring record by nine shots.

October 7th, 2024

Australia’s Cassie Porter one of 15 to secure LPGA status at the Epson Tour Championship

Australia’s Cassie Porter finished T-17 at the Epson Tour Championship to improve from 11th to 10th on the season-long standings.

September 30th, 2024

Historic scoring day sees Jasmine Suwannapura (61) top Lucy Li (60) in Walmart NW Arkansas playoff

A historic scoring storm Sunday at Pinnacle Country Club turned into a two-hole playoff shootout in the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship.

September 26th, 2024

US Solheim Cup stalwart Ally Ewing announces her retirement from LPGA

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.

September 25th, 2024

On Tour: Morning Hit

An inside look at the growing coffee culture filtering through golf’s professional circuits

September 23rd, 2024

Not even a month break can slow Lydia Ko as she dominates in Ohio to continue her magical season

[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…

September 19th, 2024

After Solheim Cup win, Nelly Korda gets back to business and needles teammates: ‘Just hate all the girls again’

A “let’s move on” focus was apparent in the world No.1’s pre-tournament press conference when she got in a sly joke on getting back to business while reflecting on her appreciation for her Solheim Cup teammates.

September 16th, 2024

Stacy Lewis was the culture-changing captain the USA needed to win the Solheim Cup for the first time in 7 years

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.

September 15th, 2024

Breaking down all 12 singles matches for Day 3 at the Solheim Cup

GAINESVILLE, Va. — Europe is in a 10-6 hole going into Sunday singles at the Solheim Cup, needing to match the 2012 Ryder Cup’s Miracle at Medinah comeback with the Robbery at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club to keep the Cup for four straight matches. Both captains shared that their plan was to stack their Read more…