The 70th U.S. Women’s Open is being held at Lancaster Country Club this week. Here are what other papers are writing about the course: Frank Fitzpatrick of Philly.com has praise for the “Old school” course and its 95-year-old layout designed by William Flynn. Fitzpatrick quotes tournament director Ben Kimball saying, “In my opinion, this is …
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Here are some spots where you’ll be able to see a variety of U.S. Women’s Open golf and golfers with minimal exertion: Behind the first green: As you face the green from the back, the tee at 12 and green at the eighth — two terrific par-3s — are just behind and to your left. …
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MIKE GROSS, MGROSS@LNPNEWS.COM It’s late April, and Lancaster Country Club is thawed and lush and green enough to spark a golf-course geek’s imagination. We’re standing on the green at the seventh, a par-5 that will be reachable in two shots by almost all the the field in July’s U.S. Women’s Open. The hole location faced by …
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United States Golf Association officials Ben Kimball and Shannon Rouillard were in Lancaster Friday to walk the golf course and begin planning their approach to preparing the classic layout for the U.S. Women’s Open in July.  

MIKE GROSS MGROSS@LNPNEWS.COM We’re now less than four months away from the U.S. Women’s Open at Lancaster Country Club, and, as Matt Sawicki of the United States Golf Association put it Wednesday, “the plans are all in place, and now we’re ready to begin executing them.’’ The chairs of the 19 volunteer committees gave progress …
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MIKE GROSS MGROSS@LNPNEWS.COM King Knox and Ken Phillips, two of the area’s most accomplished amateur golfers, won’t be teeing it up much between now and, oh, mid-July. From now to then, when Lancaster Country Club hosts the U.S. Women’s Open July 6-12, they are generals to an army of marshals who have volunteered to work …
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The U.S. Women’s Open at Lancaster Country Club is about 16 weeks away. The United States Golf Association formally opened the event to entries Thursday. But golf-appropriate weather seems almost unimaginable at this moment near the end (it is hoped) of a hideous winter. As the snow fell and piled up on the fifth day …
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LPGA tour players Sandra Gal and Gerina Piller visited the Lancaster Country Club on Tuesday morning for a round of golf on the links that will host the 2015 U.S. Women’s Open next summer. Gal is presently ranked 37th in earnings on the tour this season with $198,940, while Piller is 28th with $314,143. Gal …
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Perhaps for the first time Tuesday, the U.S. Women’s Open coming to Lancaster felt like more than words. Three-time Women’s Open champion Annika Sorenstam and Mike Davis, the executive director of the United States Golf Association, played a round of golf and appeared at a luncheon at Lancaster Country Club with club members, event sponsors …
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