Of the top 25 female golfers in the world, 12 are from South Korea, and none of them is better evidence of that country’s golfing eminence than In Gee Chun, U.S. Women’s Open champion. Chun is 20. She doesn’t even play the LPGA Tour (yet). She is, in essence, a minor-leaguer. A blue-chip prospect and …
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When the curtain rose on the world’s stage this past week, the scene was Lancaster and the spotlight was on the Lancaster Country Club. A field of 156 women’s golfers from 25 different countries descended on the nearly 100-year-old golf course off the New Holland Pike for the U.S. Women’s Open. With a Fox Sports …
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Stacy Lewis suggested Saturday that if windmills were placed on a couple of hole locations at this U.S. Women’s Open, “it would be perfect.” The runner-up heading into Sunday’s championship round at Lancaster Country Club was only half-kidding. There were hole locations where the ball didn’t roll out as expected, Lewis said, and there were …
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When you’re organizing an event as big as the U.S. Women’s Open, it takes a lot of forethought to keep things running smoothly. All that planning seems to have paid off for the Open at Lancaster Country Club. Spectators’ reactions to the event, which ran for a full week and concluded Sunday, were overwhelmingly positive, …
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Golf is supposed to be fun, and that is exactly what Alli Weaver tried to do on Sunday, have fun. “I didn’t keep score today,” said Weaver, who was playing as a marker for the second straight day. “I was just focused on hitting as many good shots as I can.” While Weaver was not …
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There’s no trophy for the top-scoring amateur at the U.S. Women’s Open. But it’s a sure bet those in that field were vying for the title. “I did know where I was because the two behind me, Mariel (Galdiano) and Muni (He) are actually my friends, so we’re all close. I know we’re all friends, …
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There’s no official list of the hardest to easiest jobs at Lancaster Country Club during the U.S. Women’s Open this week. Well, if there is, it hasn’t been disclosed. But there’s a group of several folks in baby-blue shirts at the course this week who could make argument for having one of toughest gigs. All …
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Stacy Lewis and Amy Yang, Saturday’s final twosome, came off the 18th green to cheers and yells from the crowd, followed by a phalanx of security staff, tournament officials and media. And Erica Corey, 13, an eighth-grader in the Manheim Township School District. Corey was the standard-bearer, the person who walks the course with each …
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The crowd forms a gentle stream as it follows the worn-down walkway between the 14th and 18th greens at Lancaster Country Club on Saturday, absorbing the hot July sun in the middle of the afternoon. Some members of the stream peel away, though, pulling out phones or pausing for a pose under the structural centerpiece …
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Michelle Wie wasn’t terribly sure what to expect before teeing it up in this year’s U.S. Women’s Open at the Lancaster Country Club. The defending champion has been dealing with hip and ankle injuries all season. On top of that, she made some swing changes that made climbing any leaderboard difficult. But she was encouraged …
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One is a 22-year-old native of South Korea. The other is a 38-year-old product of Japan. At opposite ends of the spectrum age-wise, what In Gee Chun and Shiho Oyama have in common is that both have much to play for in Sunday’s final round of the U.S. Women’s Open at Lancaster Country Club. Competing …
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Lee Khang was among the first members of his family to come to the United States back in the mid-1970s. It’s a move his parents put in motion by applying for a sponsorship in the U.S. when they realized it was no longer safe to live in Laos, just north of Vietnam, during the height …
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