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☆ The Match: Female golfers take part in competition for the first time in historic edition
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Callum Sutherland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —From NFL quarterback greats locking horns to clashes between golf’s most notorious rivals, Capital One’s The Match series has delivered on a unique approach to entertainment in recent years. Next month, the ninth and latest edition is set to make even more history: for the first time, the series will include female participants. ET (11:30 p.m. GMT) on February 26, Capital One’s The Match will take place under lights across a 12-hole event at The Park course in West Palm Beach, Florida. Warren Little/Getty ImagesAt 28, Thompson is already a seasoned champion, boasting a major title – the 2014 Chevron Championship – among her 11 LPGA Tour victories. In October, she became just the seventh woman to compete on the PGA Tour.

Persons: Rory McIlroy, Lexi Thompson, Rose Zhang, Max Homa, Michael Reaves, –, Jay Monahan, ’ McIlroy, Tiger Woods, Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth, Jordan, ”, McIlroy, ” McIlroy, “ It’ll, Thompson, Zhang, Warren Little, Jennifer Kupcho, “ It’s, Homa Organizations: CNN, NFL, Capital, TNT Sports, USA, Golf, Hawaii, PGA, JT, Hero Dubai, LPGA, Northern Ireland, Emirates Golf Club, Chevron, –, Stanford, Mizuho, Team Europe, Ryder, Turner Sports, Warner Bros, Discovery, Warner Bros . Locations: West Palm Beach , Florida, United States, Florida, American, Rome

Stark’s putt on the 17th put Europe ahead, then Grant clinched the win by sinking hers on the 18th. Stark and Grant, good friends off the course as well, had made their Solheim Cup debuts with a loss in the opening foursomes on Friday. The Europeans rallied in the fourball matches in the afternoon to cut the lead to 5-3 going into the weekend. France's Boutier, the top-ranked European who was playing some of the best golf ahead of the Solheim Cup, remains winless. “We got a few down going into the back nine and just stayed positive.”Spain is hosting the Solheim Cup for the first time, 26 years after it hosted the men’s Ryder Cup at Valderrama.

Persons: Maja Stark, Linn Grant, Stark, Grant, Danielle Kang, Andrea Lee, Carlota Ciganda, Emily Pedersen, Jennifer Kupcho, Lilia Vu, ”, Pedersen, Nelly Korda, Allisen Corpuz, Celine Boutier, Korda, France's Boutier, Lexi Thompson, Megan Khang, Leona Maguire, Anna Nordqvist, Nordqvist, “, ” Thompson, Ryder Organizations: —, Solheim, U.S, Denmark, Finca, Women's, Georgia, Valderrama Locations: Spain, Europe, United States, U.S, Rome

☆ Solheim Cup: Emily Pedersen hits incredible hole-in-one, but Team USA leads Team Europe after Day One
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Matias Grez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Emily Pedersen made a stunning hole-in-one for Team Europe on a thrilling opening day of the Solheim Cup, but it wasn’t enough to prevent Team USA taking a 5-3 lead going into day two. Emily Pedersen produced the shot of the day. Angel Martinez/Getty ImagesThere was some late drama on the 18th as Leona Maguire produced a delightful chip-in to snatch a point for Team Europe alongside Georgia Hall, beating the American pairing of Lexi Thompson and Lilia Vu. Angel Martinez/Getty ImagesBut on a day that certainly wasn’t lacking in spectacular shots, it was Pedersen’s hole-in-one – only the second in Solheim Cup history – that became the standout moment. That shot and the rest of the afternoon fourballs were just the tonic Team Europe needed after a difficult morning.

Persons: Emily Pedersen, Maja Stark, Allisen Corpuz, Jennifer Kupcho, Angel Martinez, Leona Maguire, Lexi Thompson, Lilia Vu, ” Maguire, we’ll Organizations: CNN, Team Europe, Solheim, Team USA, USA, Georgia Hall, Sky Sports, ” Locations: Europe, Málaga, Spain, Georgia

CINCINNATI (AP) — Ruixin Liu of China was still suffering from allergies that forced her to withdraw from the LPGA Tour event last week. Liu said she still didn't have a clear head for the opening round in Cincinnati and has no idea why she played so well. Thompson is having her worst year on the LPGA Tour but still made the Solheim Cup team through the women's world ranking. The LPGA Tour is coming off a week that delivered one of the biggest surprises of the year. She is a six-time winner on the Futures Tour but has never finished in the top 10 on the LPGA Tour in individual play.

Persons: — Ruixin Liu, Liu, Peiyun Chien, Elizabeth Szokol, Dottie Ardina, Linnea Strom, ” Liu, “, ”, Emily Kristine Pedersen of, Charley Hull, Madelene, Jennifer Kupcho, Ally Ewing, Rose Zhang, Lexi Thompson, Thompson, Lydia Ko, Ruoning Yin, Chanettee Wannasaen, I’m, Ardina, ” Ardina Organizations: CINCINNATI, LPGA, Kroger, City, Kenwood Country Club, Portland, Queen City, Solheim, Emily Kristine Pedersen of Denmark, Kenwood, PGA Locations: China, Peiyun, Cincinnati, Spain, Europe, Sweden

☆ Opinion: Rose Zhang is a reminder to sports fans — anything can happen
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Opinion Amy Bass | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Zhang displays her trophy after winning the Mizuho Americas Open in a playoff over Jennifer Kupcho during the final round Sunday. “Incredible few weeks for Rose Zhang, defends her NCAA title and then wins in her Pro debut,” tweeted Tiger Woods, who forged his own legacy as a Stanford Cardinal golf player. Join us on Twitter and FacebookIt would be wise, sport fans, to pay attention, even if golf isn’t your thing. With Rose Zhang, the LPGA has a star who is not just the most touted athlete to hit women’s golf in a long time, but golf writ large. Indeed, Zhang might be one of those athletes, like Woods, who could transcend her sport, creating the start of something special for all of us.

Persons: Amy Bass, Read, Rose Zhang, Beverly Hanson, Amy Bass Rodney Bedsole I’m, —, Julene Caulfield, Zhang, Jennifer Kupcho, Elsa, ” Zhang, ”, Woods, “, Zhang —, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz Organizations: Manhattanville College, CNN, Mizuho, Stanford University, NCAA, Student, Manhattanville, Division III, Liberty, Stanford, Kupcho, Twitter, Stanley, Golden Knights, Celtics, Denver Nuggets, NBA Locations: Jersey City , New Jersey, Vegas, Florida

☆ Zhang triumphs in playoff to win in pro debut on LPGA Tour
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

NEW YORK, June 4 (Reuters) - American Rose Zhang prevailed in a tense playoff against compatriot Jennifer Kupcho to claim at the Mizuho Americas Open title and become first woman in more than 70 years to win on her professional debut at an LPGA Tour event on Sunday. "It was just last week that I won NCAAs with my team mates and to turn pro and come out here, it's just been amazing." Got a taste of the pressure, got a taste of the wind and I tried to stay composed as always," said Zhang. Zhang, who won the Augusta National Women's Amateur in April, is the second woman to win in her pro debut on the tour after Beverly Hanson in 1951. Reporting by Amy Tennery; Additional reporting by Nick Mulvenney in Sydney; Editing by Christopher CushingOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Rose Zhang, Jennifer Kupcho, it's, Zhang, Beverly Hanson, Amy Tennery, Nick Mulvenney, Christopher Cushing Organizations: YORK, Mizuho, Liberty, Augusta National, Amateur, Thomson Locations: Sydney

☆ Reigning NCAA champion Rose Zhang becomes the 1st LPGA golfer to win tournament in pro debut since 1951
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Homero De La Fuente | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

But Sunday’s final round shaped up to be a roller coaster for the two-time NCAA women’s golf national champion. With a win in sight, Zhang missed a would-be victory clinching putt to send the tournament into a sudden death playoff with Kupcho. Rose Zhang at the first tee during the final round of the LPGA Mizuho Americas Open on Sunday. Following her maiden LPGA Tour victory, Woods congratulated Zhang on Twitter saying, “Incredible few weeks for Rose Zhang, defends her NCAA title and then wins in her Pro debut. Despite the busy school schedule, Zhang says fans can expect to see a lot more of her on the LPGA Tour.

Persons: Rose Zhang, Jennifer Kupcho, Zhang, Atthaya Thitikul, Aditi Ashok, Beverley Hanson, it’s, I’ve, ” Zhang, “, I’m, ”, Rich Graessle, Lorena Ochoa, Tiger Woods, Woods, what’s, I’ll Organizations: CNN, Mizuho, Liberty National Golf Club, Kupcho, Stanford, NCAA, LPGA, LPGA Mizuho, NCAA National, CS Locations: New Jersey, Cheyenne Knight, Arizona

☆ Chevron Championship: Lilia Vu channels memory of late Grandfather to clinch first major title
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Lilia Vu triumphed at the Chevron Championship on Sunday, besting American compatriot Angel Yin in a playoff to seal the first major of her career in The Woodlands, Texas. I’m just really happy and proud of Cole [caddie] and I for doing this.”Vu (R) celebrates her win in the water. Amid bubbling frustrations during a wet and windy final round, it was the memory of her grandfather that kept Vu grounded. Carmen Mandato/Getty ImagesYin upbeatRunner-up Yin was upbeat despite agonizingly missing out on a first career major. “My caddie was telling me to calm down, but other than that, I really just wasn’t really feeling much.

☆ Vu at the top of early second round Chevron leaderboard
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

April 21 (Reuters) - Lilia Vu took advantage of soft conditions to move to the top the Chevron Championship leaderboard on Friday after the start of second round play at the year's first women's major was delayed by two hours due to heavy rain. "Really happy to finish today," said American Vu, the world number 12. The round left the American on six-over for the tournament well adrift of the projected one-over cut. Taiwan's Chien, the world's 189th-ranked player, was the surprise leader after round one and among the late starters on Friday along with world number one Lydia Ko. Second round play is expected to spill over into Saturday after more than two inches (5 cm) of rain dropped on the Jack Nicklaus designed layout overnight.

☆ Taiwan's Chien grabs early lead at Chevron Championship
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

April 20 (Reuters) - Taiwan's Peiyun Chien seized early control of the year's first women's major on Thursday, carding a five-under 67 to grab the first-round clubhouse lead at the Chevron Championship and grabbing the spotlight from the sport's big names. "I saw the pin sheet last night, and I can't sleep," said Chien, who came to the major off her best result of the season, a tie for fourth at last week's LOTTE Championship. Ko had a roller coaster round including four birdies and three bogeys which left the New Zealander on one-under 71 alongside Canada's twice major winner Brook Henderson. Kupcho, world number two and Olympic gold medallist Nelly Korda, U.S. Open champion Minjee Lee of Australia and British Open winner Ashleigh Buhai of South Africa were among the late starters. Reporting by Steve Keating in Toronto, Editing by Ed OsmondOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ How to watch the Chevron Championship live: Start time, channel and other things to know
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Once again, the first women’s golf major of the season tees off with The Chevron Championship. How to watchUS viewers can watch the first and second rounds on the Golf Channel, with coverage running from 10 a.m. CST until 7 p.m. CST. “I think I was in a bit of a panic last year,” Kupcho told reporters Tuesday. But I don’t think that’s going to be my driving force going to any of these events this year.”Ko tees off at the HSBC Women's World Championship in March. “I don’t think I have a weakness in my game at all, and I think that’s partially why I’ve been very consistent,” Hall told reporters.

☆ Not the same major splash as Chevron moves to Texas
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Steve Keating | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

April 19 (Reuters) - When women's golf crowns its first major winner of the season on Sunday at the Chevron Championship it will not make the same splash it once did. "I'm not really sure," said defending Chevron champion Jennifer Kupcho. "I think there might be snakes in the water here, so might be a little interesting." While a dock can be quickly constructed, it takes years to build traditions and rarely are they transferable. After missing last year's Chevron due to injury, Korda is back to full fitness with four finishes inside the top six in five starts this season, including runner-up at last month's HSBC World Championship.

☆ Kupcho expecting different challenge in Chevron defence
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

April 18 (Reuters) - American Jennifer Kupcho is expecting a very different challenge as she defends her first major title away from the familiar surrounds of last year's triumph, with the Chevron Championship kicking off the women’s major calendar at a new Texas venue after more than 50 years in its former Palm Springs home. Kupcho had yet to clinch a LPGA Tour title before her victory last year, when she held on through a nervy back nine to win by two shots. Yet the world number 20 will find very different conditions this year at Carlton Woods course. The 25-year-old picked up two more wins on the tour after her Chevron title but has struggled to make much of an impact in 2023, most recently finishing tied for 25th at the DIO Implant LA Open. Feel like I have my feet under me and ready to go," Kupcho added.

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