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Yahoo
29-04-2025
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Lydia Ko caddies for Danielle Kang at U.S. Women's Open qualifying in San Francisco
Lydia Ko traveled straight from the year's first major in Texas to U.S. Women's Open qualifying in San Francisco to help out a friend. The world No. 3 caddied at The Olympic Club on Monday for fellow major champion Danielle Kang on the Lake Course, using her push cart for the 36-hole gig. Kang and Ko have teamed up several times to compete in the LPGA's Dow Championship. Kang, 32, has struggled on tour of late, dropping to 389th in the world. Rounds of 74-73 weren't enough to earn her a spot in this year's championship, held May 28-June 1 at Wisconsin's Erin Hills Golf Course. This will be the first U.S. Women's Open Kang has missed since 2009. Her lone top-10 finish in the event came in 2018 when she finished fourth. As for Ko, a winner of three different major championship titles, she needs a victory at the U.S. Women's Open or KPMG Women's PGA to complete the career grand slam. While major champions Ko and Kang were the stars of the field, amateurs dominated the leaderboard at the historic club, where three players advanced to Erin Hills. Junior Sarah Lim of Saratoga, California, shared medalist honors with Emily Oden, a junior at SMU who hails from Barbados, at 3-under 139. Oden will be the first player from Barbados to compete in the championship. Lim carded a 67 in Round 2 to clinch her spot. Meanwhile Stanford players Paula Martin Sampedro and Andrea Revuelta, both of Spain, battled it out for the last automatic spot. Martin Sampedro shot 3-under 68 in the second round to edge her teammate by one stroke. Revuelta will be the site's first alternate. This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Lydia Ko caddies for Danielle Kang at U.S. Women's Open qualifying
USA Today
29-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Lydia Ko caddies for Danielle Kang at U.S. Women's Open qualifying in San Francisco
Lydia Ko caddies for Danielle Kang at U.S. Women's Open qualifying in San Francisco Lydia Ko traveled straight from the year's first major in Texas to U.S. Women's Open qualifying in San Francisco to help out a friend. The world No. 3 caddied at The Olympic Club on Monday for fellow major champion Danielle Kang on the Lake Course, using her push cart for the 36-hole gig. Kang and Ko have teamed up several times to compete in the LPGA's Dow Championship. Kang, 32, has struggled on tour of late, dropping to 389th in the world. Rounds of 74-73 weren't enough to earn her a spot in this year's championship, held May 28-June 1 at Wisconsin's Erin Hills Golf Course. This will be the first U.S. Women's Open Kang has missed since 2009. Her lone top-10 finish in the event came in 2018 when she finished fourth. As for Ko, a winner of three different major championship titles, she needs a victory at the U.S. Women's Open or KPMG Women's PGA to complete the career grand slam. While major champions Ko and Kang were the stars of the field, amateurs dominated the leaderboard at the historic club, where three players advanced to Erin Hills. Junior Sarah Lim of Saratoga, California, shared medalist honors with Emily Oden, a junior at SMU who hails from Barbados, at 3-under 139. Oden will be the first player from Barbados to compete in the championship. Lim carded a 67 in Round 2 to clinch her spot. Meanwhile Stanford players Paula Martin Sampedro and Andrea Revuelta, both of Spain, battled it out for the last automatic spot. Martin Sampedro shot 3-under 68 in the second round to edge her teammate by one stroke. Revuelta will be the site's first alternate.
USA Today
27-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Watch: Ariya Jutanugarn nearly whiffed on 18 while leading the Chevron Championship
Watch: Ariya Jutanugarn nearly whiffed on 18 while leading the Chevron Championship THE WOODLANDS, Texas – After Ariya Jutanugran intentionally aimed at the grandstand and let a hybrid fly long into the par-5 18th – literally hitting the volunteer she was aiming at – she nearly whiffed her third shot from a gnarly lie in the rough during the final round of the 2025 Chevron Championship. The shocking development happened so fast it almost didn't look real. An aerial view of the shot shows Jutanugarn's ball advance just a couple inches. She proceeded to make a bogey on the 72nd hole to drop into a tie with Hyo Joo Kim and Ruoning Yin at 7 under. Two more players behind her at 6 under – Mao Saigo and Lindy Duncan – have a chance to either join them at 7 under with a birdie or win outright with an eagle. Jutanugarn, 29, is a two-time major winner and former No. 1 trying to win her third different major. She last won on the LPGA in 2021 alongside sister Moriya in the Dow Championship, a team event. The trailblazing Thai player immediately went out to work on practicing chip shots from the rough, which she could easily experience again as the playoff format goes back to the 18th.
USA Today
19-03-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
LPGA announces another change to its Pace of Play Policy, making it even tougher
LPGA announces another change to its Pace of Play Policy, making it even tougher The LPGA has announced an additional change to its Pace of Play policy for the 2025 season. Beginning next week at the Ford Championship, the tour will add a season-long tracking element for holes timed. Players who have 40 or more holes timed during the rest of the 2025 schedule (with the exception of the T-Mobile Match Play presented by MGM Rewards, U.S. Women's Open, Dow Championship and AIG Women's Open) will receive a fine. This also will go into effect on the Epson Tour beginning on April 25 at the IOA Championship. On that tour, players who have 20 or more holes timed for the remainder of the season will also receive a fine. 'Looking at the data, we concluded that if a player had 40 or more holes timed over the season, that player contributed to a slower pace of play,' said LPGA Player President Vicki Goetze-Ackerman in a release. 'We believe that this addition to the policy, along with penalty strokes being issued for plus times of +6 or greater, will increase the number of players who heed the initial warnings, leading to fewer players out of position and therefore timings.' In February, the tour released a new Pace of Play Policy that introduced a one-shot penalty. The current policy dished out fines for those who were 1 to 10 seconds over the allotted time and a two-stroke penalty for those who were more than 11 seconds over. The new policy gives a fine for those who are 1-5 seconds over, a one-stroke penalty for those 6 – 15 seconds over and a two-stroke penalty for more than 16 seconds. In addition, players who tee off first on par 3s and reachable par 4s will continue to get an additional 10 seconds. The new policy, however, eliminates the additional 10 seconds that was given to players who are first to play from par 4 and par 5 tees. The new policy was revealed at the first player meeting of the season in February at the Founders Cup. World No. 1 Nelly Korda's reaction to the news: Finally.
