“Something unusual happened early this week at the Chevron Championship. Golf’s most important leaders gathered on LPGA soil to brainstorm how to drive the women’s game forward. Attendees of the inaugural Commission at The Chevron Championship in Houston included PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, PGA of America CEO Seth Waugh and U.S. Golf Association CEO Mike Whan.”
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“Brittany Lincicome’s newest ball marks remind her of her most significant remaining LPGA Tour dream. Using one with the name Sophia on it Thursday, in honor of her 8-month-old daughter, she’ll rotate to one engraved with Emery, her eldest daughter’s name, on Friday. Both were in attendance as Lincicome posted a two-under 70 at Carlton Woods Thursday, putting her in contention for her first major title since the 2015 ANA Inspiration, the former namesake of this tournament.”
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“Stacy Lewis, a former star of The Woodlands High School, is sleeping at her parents' house this week as The Chevron Championship is being held in her hometown.
The championship is one of five major tournaments on the LPGA Tour. While former champions like Lewis, sleeping at their parents' place is rare. Ensuring mothers and children are together is a pillar for the LPGA Tour.”
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“You see her influence right away, starting with Dinah’s Place, the pavilion surrounding the 18th green at the Club at Carlton Woods. The players’ lounge is also called the 1972 Club. And the ice cream in player dining is a distinct nod to the soft-serve machine that was always a hit in the old Mission Hills clubhouse. Those touches, connecting the past to the present and the present to the future, came together this week at the Chevron Championship because of a committed sponsor, an enthusiastic town, and the impassioned leadership of a past champion and former world No.1 – Stacy Lewis.”
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“Stacy Lewis admits it’s a little bit strange being at the LPGA’s first major championship of 2023. After a half-century in Palm Springs, the Chevron Championship (formerly known as the ANA and the Dinah Shore) has relocated to the Woodlands, just outside of Houston. That means a new golf course. It means new traditions. But for Lewis it means a blast from the past, too: sleeping at home.”
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“Two-time Chevron Championship winner Brittany Linciciome joins Golf Today to discuss her preparation for the upcoming major, balancing motherhood and a career, and her remaining golf goals.”
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“Making it to the top of the game can be very expensive. Tournament entries, travel, accommodation, food, caddies and plenty more outgoings mean that the sport loses plenty of talent simply because a number of Pros just can't afford to keep going.
Epson Tour (the tour below the LPGA) player Hannah Gregg, who has over 165,000 followers across Instagram and Twitter, put it very frank when talking about the finances on the satellite and mini tours where a $1,000 check was up for grabs but the event cost $600 to enter.”
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“Betsy King is bringing the LPGA back to Berks County for a pro-am in June.
King, the Berks native and World Golf Hall of Famer, is hosting the event to benefit her charity, Golf Fore Africa, on June 5 at Moselem Springs Golf Club, she announced Friday during a press conference at the BCTV studio in Reading.”
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“When Jill McGill first toured the new Colorado Golf Hall of Fame Museum at The Broadmoor on Friday, one of her first thoughts — besides just how impressive it is — regarded her kids and how they viewed their mom’s golf career.
“To see the history they have (compiled) all the way from Babe Zaharias, it’s astounding,” said McGill, who was inducted into the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame in 2009 — and who last year became the first American to win the U.S. Senior Women’s Open. “To look at the (museum’s) timeline and all of the different people who are displayed or represented, and to be part of that, I don’t know if I really appreciated it prior. But now going through what I have and having kids, you realize, ‘Wow, there really is history.’ And selfishly looking at it, I’m like, ‘Wow, this is amazing.’ My kids will know that I actually did something besides pick up dog poop and pack lunches.”"
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“Razor-sharp for the last two weeks, Miguel Tabuena on Sunday mowed down The DGC Open leaders, shooting a flawless seven-under-par 65 to complete a comeback from six shots down at the start of the day and win his third Asian Tour crown by a shot over home bet Rashid Khan in New Delhi in India.”
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“Fatima Fernandez Cano is no stranger to Mesa, Arizona or Longbow Golf Club. The two-time Epson Tour champion secured one of those victories in 2022 at the Carlisle Arizona Women's Golf Classic. The third annual event sponsored by the Carlisle Companies returns to Longbow Golf Club in 2023, along with Cano, to defend her title. Although the 27-year-old did not learn to play golf in the desert, Cano has grown to love and trust her game in Arizona.”
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“Brittany Lincicome was hoping to slide under the radar at the Florida’s Natural Charity Classic. But it’s hard for a two-time major winner to blend in at an Epson Tour event.
Before Lincicome begins her 2023 season on the LPGA later this month in Arizona, the mother of two thought she’d try to regain some confidence at the season-opening event that’s about 90 minutes, without traffic, from her St. Petersburg home. It’s her first time playing on the official qualifying tour. The 37-year-old went straight to the LPGA from high school and was a rookie in 2005.”
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“DemandScience, a global B2B data company that partners with customers to drive demand generation, today announced that Megan Khang is the first member of the LPGA Tour to become a brand ambassador for the company. DemandScience now has partnerships with 18 elite professional golfers from North America and Europe playing on the LPGA Tour, the PGA TOUR, PGA TOUR Champions, and the Korn Ferry Tour.”
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“Two-time major champion Stacy Lewis has been named captain of the 2024 U.S. Solheim Cup Team. Lewis is already hard at work as captain for the 2023 Team and will now also lead the top 12 American female golfers as they represent their country at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Va., on Sept. 10-15, 2024.”
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“Ana Belac ended 2022 on a high with a T38 result at LPGA Q-Series before she headed to Spain and secured LET status with a fourth-place finish.
The Slovenian carded rounds of 68, 69, 73, 71 and 67 on the North and South courses at La Manga Club easily finishing in the top 20 and clinching her LET card for 2023.”
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“Shelley McGill O’Keefe says she loves everything about Thanksgiving. One highlight arrives just before the traditional dinner begins, when each person gathered around a bountiful table takes the opportunity to articulate what it is that makes him, or her, grateful.
When it was Shelley’s turn to speak this year, she might have taken a little more time than usual. Same for her younger sister, Jill McGill.
Seven months past her 50th birthday, Jill won her first professional golf tournament this summer, capturing the U.S. Senior Women’s Open at NCR Country Club in Kettering, Ohio. Jill was a college hotshot, a two-time All-America at USC and 1993 U.S. Women's Amateur champion who seemed destined to win a bunch when she stepped onto the LPGA nearly three decades ago.”
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“Quietly and with remarkable consistency, Megan Khang is constructing a pretty solid career with the LPGA. The young woman who was born in 1997 in Brockton, Mass., to parents who as children had escaped war-ravaged Laos in 1970, will be teeing it up in the CME Group Tour Championship, which begins today.”
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“A few months ago, Lauren Stephenson’s life off the course was turned upside-down when her younger sister, Hannah, had a cancer scare. Stephenson continued to play, but her golf game reached a breaking point after her second straight missed cut at the LPGA MEDIHEAL Championship. She decided that it was time to step away and focus on her sister.”
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It has been only a few months since Brittany Lincicome last played in a tournament, as she went on maternity leave in late June for the birth of her second daughter, Sophia.
But it feels like “years when you take that much time off,” the Seminole native said.
During a media event Tuesday for the LPGA Pelican Women’s Championship, which tees off Nov. 10 at Pelican Golf Club, Lincicome said the mental side of golf is one of the most difficult hurdles she will have to overcome. She gradually has ramped up her preparation for the event but said it still snuck up on her.
Lincicome knows that she can hit the ball the same. She knows her abilities have allowed her to win on the tour before, and she reminded herself that it hasn’t changed even with the time off.
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There’s been no closer call for Megan Khang this season than the final round at the Dana Open presented by Marathon. Khang started the day four back of 54-hole leader Lucy Li and came out swinging on her opening nine holes, carding five birdies in seven holes to turn in 29 and tie the lead. Her next birdie came on the 11th, giving Khang the solo lead at -16, but her putter went cold and her playing partner, Gaby Lopez, got hot, birdieing Nos. 16 and 17 to pull one ahead. Both players put their second shots in the bunker on the reachable, par-5 18th and Lopez barely got hers out, splashing it to mid-range, with Khang nearly holing out for eagle, setting up a two-foot birdie that would send the pair to a playoff. But the fiery Lopez buried her putt in the heart of the cup, spelling the end for Khang who was looking for her the first win of her seven-year LPGA Tour career.
“My front nine was incredible. I was rolling the ball really well on the greens, and Jack and I kind of just were out there and we were like, Hey, we're not in the last group but we're pretty close. We're chasing and we just got to give ourselves the best chance at it,” said Khang who only needed 27 putts on Sunday to finish solo second. “There is always a little bit of disappointment, but Gaby played an amazing round as well. A lot of mixed feelings, but I gave myself chances, and just going to take what I learned from this week and carry it on for my career.”