It was the second stop of the FedEx Cup Playoffs at Castle Pines Golf Club for the BMW Championship, making the first time in 10 years that the PGA Tour returned to Colorado, where the course sits more than 6,200 yards above sea level and is stretched out to over 8,100 yards. That is not
Lydia Ko has done it again. The newly-minted LPGA Hall of Famer was dominant down the stretch Sunday, capturing her third major title at the 2024 AIG Women’s Open at St. Andrews. Ko won by two shots over World No. 1 Nelly Korda, No. 2 Lilia Vu and No. 6 Ruoning Yin for her first
There’s something extra special about winning this week’s AIG Women’s Open. This is only the third time the women’s major has been played on the historic Old Course at St. Andrews, and to boast that you claimed the title at the Home of Golf is a reward that doesn’t come with a specific price tag.
In 2013, the last time the AIG Women’s Open was played at St. Andrews, Stacy Lewis cashed a first-place prize money payout of $402,583 for her victory out of a total purse of $2.75 million. Come Sunday, when a new champion photographed on the Swilcan Bridge, there will be 3½ times that much on the
If this is what’s in store the next two weeks for the FedEx Cup Playoffs, we’re in store for some goodness. Hideki Matsuyama was cruising, seemingly running away with the FedEx St. Jude Championship on Sunday, then it happened. He went through a four-hole stretch at TPC Southwind where he made bogey, par, bogey, double
Lauren Coughlin was always confident she would be a winner on the LPGA, even after some early years struggling to find her way in pro golf after turning pro in 2016. But what came after claiming her first title three weeks ago at the CPKC Women’s Open in Canada was not only the satisfaction of
It took Lauren Coughlin 101 starts to earn her first win. Just three weeks later, she’s a winner again. Coughlin closed with a 3-under 69 on Sunday at Dundonald Links in Ayrshire, Scotland, to win the 2024 ISPS Handa Women’s Scottish Open by a comfortable four shots. Olympic silver medalist Ester Henseleit of Germany was