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PGA Tour's top 2 rules officials retiring after long careers
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — For Mark Russell and Slugger White, getting into the business as a PGA Tour rules official was a lot easier decision than getting out. With some 80 years of experience between them — Sam Snead was still playing the occasional tournament when they started — Russell and...
Ko wins LPGA's season-ending CME Group title in a flourish
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Jin Young Ko missed most of the LPGA Tour season and still won the yearlong money title. That’s what a $1.1 million check does. Ko, the No. 1 player in the world, put an emphatic capper on her truncated year Sunday by shooting a final-round 6-under 66 and winning the CME Group...
Top-ranked Jin Young Ko takes lead in LPGA Tour finale
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Top-ranked Jin Young Ko took the lead into the weekend in the LPGA Tour’s CME Group Tour Championship, putting herself in position to win the season money title in only four events. Ko shot a 5-under 67 on Friday in chilly and breezy conditions at Tiburon Golf Club to take a...
Lexi Thompson shoots 65, leads LPGA Tour's season finale
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — With brother Curtis back at her side at Tiburon Golf Club, Lexi Thompson shot a 7-under 65 on Thursday to take the first-round lead in the LPGA Tour's CME Group Tour Championship. Curtis, a Korn Ferry Tour player, also caddied for his sister in 2018 when she won the season-ending event....
Column: A major success getting in 7 major championships
HOUSTON (AP) — Already the latest a major championship had ever been played, it was only fitting the U.S. Women's Open had to go an additional day because of rain. Equally appropriate for the conclusion of this surreal season was the winner, A Lim Kim, wearing a mask while she played. “I'm OK to get...
Major champion Popov overlooked for exemption to LPGA finale
Sophia Popov not playing the ANA Inspiration after her Women’s British Open victory was understandable. The ANA Inspiration was postponed until September because of the pandemic and, just like the Masters, decided to leave the field as if it were played the first week in April. More curious is Popov, one...
A Lim Kim wins US Women's Open debut with record-tying rally
HOUSTON (AP) — The Bermuda grass of south Texas was unlike anything A Lim Kim had ever seen. The U.S. Women's Open, with its reputation as the toughest test, was a major she had never played. What didn't change in a frigid final round at Champions Golf Club was how to keep score. And when the 25-year-old...
Report: Olson contending, coping with father-in-law's death
HOUSTON (AP) — Amy Olson, in the final group of the U.S. Women’s Open as she goes for her first victory, now is coping with heartache over the sudden death of her father-in-law in North Dakota, Golfweek reported Sunday night. The LPGA Tour confirmed to Golfweek on Olson’s behalf that Lee...
US Women's Open pushed to Monday because of thunderstorms
HOUSTON (AP) — The latest U.S. Women's Open on the calendar will last one more day because of relentless rain that drenched Champions Golf Club and forced the USGA to suspend the final round until Monday. Hinako Shibuno of Japan, who had a one-shot lead as she goes for a second major, never teed off. The...
Shibuno passes big test and hangs on to lead in Women's Open
HOUSTON (AP) — No spectators. Two golf courses in play for the opening rounds. A major championship two weeks before Christmas. Nothing about this U.S. Women's Open felt normal until Saturday. That's when it became a grind that for so many years has defined this biggest event in women's golf. The long,...
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