World number one, Jin Young Ko, walked arm in arm up to the 18th green at the CP Women’s Open yesterday with defending champion and local girl Brooke Henderson, as she cruised to a five shot lead over her nearest rival, Denmark’s Nicole Broch Larsen, to confirm that she is in her class of her own on the LPGA Tour this year.
On the course with the world’s top golfers and surrounded by the cheers of fellow countrymen, Brooke Henderson won the LPGA CP Women’s Open on Sunday, becoming the first Canadian to win the title in 45 years, and the second Canadian to win in the event’s history.
This Sunday evening the winner of the FedEx Cup Tour Championship will pick up a cheque for a cool $15 million dollars. The same evening at the CP Women's Open Aurora, Ontario, Canada the winner will take home a cheque for a paltry $337,500. However, earlier in the day in far flung Czechoslovakia those competing in the final round of the Tipsport Czech Ladies Open will take home the combined sum of roughly $135,000!
It’s Manic Monday, so here is a very quick round up of all the results and stories from the weekend on the PGA Tour, European Tour, LPGA and Women’s European Tour.
Never say never. Eleven years and 246 starts later, Jodi Ewart Shadoff is finally an LPGA Tour champion. Ewart Shadoff won the LPGA MEDIHEAL Championship, conquering The Saticoy Club with a fifteen-under 273 score, a new tournament record. She becomes the season’s 10th Rolex First-Time Winner, which ties for the second-most first-time victors in a year.
The Solheim Cup is just three weeks away and Team USA captain, Juli Inkster, used her picks to add some experience to her rookie Solheim Cup line up last night. This will be Stacy Lewis’ fifth Solheim Cup and Morgan Pressel’s sixth.
Well we nearly got the final line up right in that we predicted three of the four captain’s picks. European Captain Catriona Matthew went for France’s Celine Boutier, English stars Jodi Ewart Shadoff and Bronte Law and Norway’s Suzann Pettersen.
Hollywood is famous for its dramatic scripts and so was fitting that the final round at the Hugel Air Premia La Open provided its own excitement. Canadian Brooke Henderson overcame a four shot deficit to post a total score of sixteen-under-par and sneak past Jessica Korda, who led for the past three days, by a single stroke.
With all of the majors now done and dusted, attention in the women's game turns to The 16th Solheim Cup which will be played on the PGA Centenary Course at Gleneagles from 13th to the 15th of September. Here is your GolfPunk guide to all thing Solheimy.
Racing against darkness after starting times were delayed an hour and 15 minutes due to fog, Jodi Ewart Shadoff continued to play lights out at the LPGA MEDIHEAL Championship on Moving Day. The Englishwoman is looking to be the third wire-to-wire winner this season after posting a bogey-free three-under 69 on Saturday to take a four-shot lead at fourteen-under overall, a new tournament 54-hole...
Jodi Ewart Shadoff held onto her Thursday lead at the LPGA MEDIHEAL Championship, turning it into a 36-hole lead on Friday at The Saticoy Club. Ewart Shadoff followed up a first-round 64 with a second-round 69 to sit four strokes ahead of the field at eleven-under-par overall. Her 133 is a new tournament scoring record, besting the record which was previously earned by Jessica Korda at Lake...
It’s Manic Monday, so here is a very quick round up of all the results and stories from the weekend on the PGA Tour, European Tour, LPGA and Women’s European Tour.
