playing with Lydia and Brooke too... that group will get a lot of coverage and rightfully so
She appears to be a generational, potentially transcendent talent. She had a prolific amateur career, won just about everything including the USGA Women's Am, the Augsta National Women's Am and back to back individual NCAA titles. She was the first woman to ever win two NCAA individual titles let alone do it back to back. All told, she was the top ranked female amateur for a record number of weeks. She turned pro right after winning her 2nd NCAA title back in May and she became the first woman in like 75 years to win her professional debut. Her next start was the KPMG major at Baltusrol and she finished T8.
She's obviously extremely talented and had a huge college career but the hype feels strong. Lydia Ko had 14 wins and a pair majors before she turned 20. There are dozens of LPGA tour wins from under 20 players over the past decade (and 4 US Women's Open winners who were age 20 or under). The women players seem to pop up and peak young with the best already winning by the time they're 20 (and not competing in college). Again, obviously talented and winning in her first event is a great sign but she's not exactly in uncharted territory except for the fact she chose to go to college rather than jump onto the tour as young as possible. Are parts of her game just better than other players? Looking at her driving distance (257, limited sample) she's not particularly long for the modern LPGA tour.
Although the good news is that they'll have ShotTracker (or whatever it's called) this week, so there should be better data.
Shotlink. They will have the same level of data as the men this week with the slight exception that the baselines for strokes gained come from data sources that are not nearly as reliable as on the PGA TOUR.
She is +5 on the 5th hole, -3 on the other 32 holes.
Yeah, but bear in mind that she holds the record single round women's score on this course: 61.
It was a 63 but, yes, she is still in this. Only 8 back of the leader who isn't an elite player and 6 shots back of the trailing pack. 68 or 67 tomorrow and she's in the mix for Sunday.
Well, you know, the 1 and the 3 are SO close together and I have VERY fat fingers.
Thanks for recalibrating me.
Announcers on the US Women's stream just confirmed this and doubt that the scoring will be any easier later in the afternoon.
She came out of retirement to win the US Women’s Senior Open in 2021 (T5 last year). Not really competitive with the younger players anymore.
Thats really cool! Are you a member there? I've been lucky enough to play there a few times. What a beautiful place.
It’s very odd that the USGA and R&A, the two organizations responsible for making distance measuring devices legal before any local rules through their 2020 rules overhaul, run the only two high-level women’s events than ban DMDs. I feel bad for Vongtaveelap and hope it wasn’t caused by a language barrier.
