Welcomes the U.S. Women's Open 2015 to Lancaster County
The United States Golf Association has announced who’s playing with whom, and when, for the first two rounds of the U.S. Women’s Open, July 9-10 at Lancaster Country Club. Half the field will begin play on the first tee Thursday and 10th tee Friday, and vice versa. Also, half the field will play in the …
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With the U.S. Women’s Open at Lancaster Country Club less than a week away, tickets are going fast, but still available. “We’re nearing the potential for a sellout on the weekend,” tournament director Barry Deach said Wednesday, referring to the Saturday (third) and Sunday (fourth) rounds of the championship, scheduled for July 9-12 . “The …
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No player in the U.S. Women’s Open will travel farther to Lancaster than Suzuka Yamaguchi. In other news, she’s 14 years old. Yamaguchi shot 66 and 69, nine under par, to finish second in sectional qualifying for the Open June 15 in Kobe, Japan. She tied for second among 86 players in the qualifier. The …
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We’d rather not talk about grass – growing it or smoking it or making putts on it – but the United States Golf Association has left us no choice. Last week, the U.S.G.A. held its biggest event, the U.S. Open, on a former gravel mine covered in two kinds of grass: fescue and poa annua. …
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The only amateur to win the U.S. Women’s Open was Catherine Lacoste – of France and the polo-shirt Lacostes – in 1967. This despite the fact that the Women’s Open is probably easier to get in than the men’s. Women seem to rise to world class faster and younger than men (Jordan Spieth notwithstanding). There’s …
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Se Ri Pak, winner of 25 LPGA tour events and four major championships including the 1998 U.S. Women’s Open, has withdrawn from this year’s Women’s Open at Lancaster Country Club, the United States Golf Association announced Monday. No reason was given. Pak, whose win in the ’98 Open at Blackwolf Run in Kohler, Wisconsin is …
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Will Lancaster’s greens look, roll, or inspire criticism like Chambers Bay’s? If so, greenskeeper Todd Bidlespacher will aerify himself. Which is another way of saying no. A thousand times, no. Holes with tees 90 yards apart (laterally)…. par-4s one day becoming par-5s the next …..550-yard par-4s, 210-yard 6-irons, guys dribbling golf balls on the fairways …
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Christina Kim admitted Tuesday what a lot of other LPGA players sort of imply, that among the five major championships of women’s golf, the U.S. Open is THE major. “You know how you say you like all your kids equally?’’ Kim asked media members after a practice round for the Women’s Open at Lancaster Country …
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Brooke Henderson doesn’t know how to win big-league golf tournaments yet, which makes sense, since she’s 17 years old. You’ve got to admire her hands-on approach to figuring it out. Henderson, from Canada, finished 10th in the U.S. Women’s Open and second in the Women’s Amateur last year. She turned pro in December of last …
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The crude stereotype goes something like this: Se Ri Pak won the 1998 US. Women’s Open, and every father in Pak’s native South Korea immediately bought their daughter golf clubs and lessons and club memberships. A Korean invasion of the LPGA tour soon followed. It’s not wrong so much as simplistic. Take Na Yeon Choi …
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The last of the 25 sectional qualifiers for the U.S. Women’s Open was completed Monday in Japan. No, that doesn’t mean the entire field is set. From the United States Golf Association’s Christina Lance: “While qualifying is over, we will not have a full field until the week of the championship. Because we have exemption …
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Among LPGA golfers playing practice rounds for the upcoming U.S. Women’s Open, praise for Lancaster Country Club has been universal and almost obligatory. Christina Kim took it to another level Tuesday. “The golf course is perfect,” she said. “No other way to put it.” Anything about it surprise her? “Just how perfect it is.” Kim …
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