The Aramco Team Series presented by the Public Investment Fund is back for 2022 – and has brought with it a new format, a new location, more prizemoney and the promise of five thrilling global events on the Ladies European Tour.
Although it wasn’t the red number that 36-hole leader Hannah Green was looking for on Moving Day at the Palos Verdes Championship presented by Bank of America, she was still very proud of her grit on day three.
The Aramco Team Series, part of the Ladies European Tour (LET), is returning in 2022 with an extended global schedule and increased prize fund. The Aramco Team Series Bangkok kicks off the 2022 tournaments with the Thai Country Club playing host on May 12-14.
Jennifer Kupcho claimed her first LPGA title at the opening major of 2022, The Chevron Championship, finishing two shots clear of fellow American Jessica Korda, who finished in solo second place.
On Saturday at The Chevron Championship, it was Jennifer Kupcho who set the Dinah Shore Tournament Course at Mission Hills ablaze. Nine birdies and one bogey later, Kupcho fired an eight-under 64 to set the low round of the week, as well as a new personal best, and sit at the top of the championship leaderboard at sixteen-under overall.
Denmark’s Nanna Koerstz Madsen is feeling loose. After becoming a Rolex First-Time winner on 13th March after her playoff victory at the Honda LPGA Thailand, the 27-year-old remains in form at the JTBC Classic presented by Barbasol. Koerstz Madsen backed up her first-round 66 with a five-under 67 on Friday, carding seven birdies and two bogeys on the day. Players often say that getting that...
Even though she didn’t become an LPGA Tour Member until 2014, Lydia Ko was winning events on Tour as early as 2012. On Sunday in the Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio, Ko added win number seventeen to her mantel on the LPGA Tour. She becomes the first player to reach seventeen wins before the age of 25 since Nancy Lopez captured her 17th title in 1979.
The race to the 2021 finish line has begun, and 18 holes remain until a Race to the CME Globe is crowned. World number one, Nelly Korda is joined by defending champion Jin Young Ko along with 2021 LPGA Tour winners Nasa Hataoka and Celine Boutier in a tie for first after the third round of the CME Group Tour Championship on fourteen-under-par.
After a second-straight 65 at the CME Group Tour Championship, Celine Boutier took a four-stroke lead in Naples at fourteen-under. Her 130 becomes a career and tournament-best 36-hole score, as she holds the second-round lead for only the second time in her career. It’s the fourth time in 24 starts this season that Boutier has opened up with two straight rounds in the 60s.
Team Jessica Korda clinched victory at the Aramco Team Series – New York after they beat Team Popov in a two-hole playoff at Glen Oaks Club. After starting the day two strokes behind the overnight leaders, Jessica Korda, Karolin Lampert, Lina Boqvist and amateur Alexandra O’Laughlin produced another solid round to finish with a total of forty-one-under-par.
Stacey Lewis, a twice major winner and a veteran of four Solheim Cups was the surprise omission from Pat Hurst's picks for the team to represent the USA at the Inverness Club. Lewis had played a role in the Solheim Cup going to Toledo and was fancied by many to play despite not securing one of the automatic qualifying positions. Instead, Lewis will be an assistant captain of Team USA.
Two Scandinavian players head a star-studded leaderboard going into the final round of the AIG Women’s Open at Carnoustie. Sweden’s Anna Nordqvist and Nanna Koerstz Madsen from Denmark share the lead on nine-under-par after impressive rounds in challenging, wet conditions in Angus.
