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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

Pederson dropped three shots over her final seven holes at Pelican Golf Club as the wind picked up late in the morning. “It got a little bit more windy out there and my back nine was not as I hoped,” Pederson said. “I hit a few uncommitted golf shots that I'm a little bit mad at myself about. Political Cartoons View All 1240 Images“Obviously, I know where I am at the CME,” Pederson said. So I’m just trying to focus on putting together a good day, a good hole, good shot every day.

Persons: Emily Kristine Pederson, Annika, Pederson, ” Pederson, “, ” Minami, Jasmine Suwannapura, I’ve, I’m, it’s, Lexi Thompson, Lydia Ko, Thompson, Ko, Jin Young Ko, ___ Organizations: LPGA, Pelican, Solheim, CME Globe, CME Locations: Fla, Danish, ” Minami Katsu, Japan, Thailand, Spain, Florida, Naples, Las Vegas

BELLEAIR, Fla. (AP) — Brooke Henderson was bothered by seeing so many low scores before she even teed off Thursday on the LPGA Tour. She just went out and putted for birdie on every hole, opening with an 8-under 62 for a one-shot lead in The Annika. “To hit all 18 greens is more what I used to be used to a little while ago,” the Canadian said. Political Cartoons View All 1239 ImagesThis is the last tournament for the top 60 players to reach the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship down the coast in Naples. “I just went into the day knowing I had to make birdies,” Thompson said.

Persons: — Brooke Henderson, Annika, Henderson, Jin Young Ko, Patty Tavatanakit, hasn’t, ”, “, ” Henderson, hasn't, That's, Ko, “ I’ve, ” Tavatanakit, I’m, Emily Kristine Pedersen, Minami Katsu, Katsu, Lexi Thompson, ” Thompson, Nelly Korda, Lydia Ko, ___ Organizations: LPGA, CME Globe, Pelican Golf, PGA Tour Locations: Fla, Florida, Naples, Japan, Las Vegas

How can someone that talented go more than four years without winning on the LPGA Tour? It's not about how many men Thompson beat over 36 holes. Golf is one of the few sports that allows for men and women playing together, and the PGA Tour is just now getting up to speed. Men and women compete for one prize (the women play from a shorter set of tees). There was chatter several years ago about combining the Tournament of Champions at Kapalua for winners from the PGA Tour and LPGA Tour.

Persons: Lexi Thompson, Thompson, —, It's, Michelle Wie, Adam Scott, Butch Harmon, Wie, Grant Thornton, Rickie Fowler, JC Penney, John Daly, Laura Davies, Linn Grant, it's, — Nelly Korda, ___ Organizations: PGA, LPGA, Shriners, Globe, Solheim, Sony, Grant, Grant Thornton Invitational, PGA Tour, JC, Australian, European Tour, Ryder, IOC Locations: Las Vegas, Europe, Sweden, Florida, Los Angeles

☆ Tom Kim becomes youngest golfer to win three PGA Tour titles since Tiger Woods
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Almost exactly a year on from easing to a three-shot victory at the same event, it makes Kim the first golfer to defend the Shriners Children’s Open since Jim Furyk in 1999, and the youngest to win three PGA Tour titles since Tiger Woods. Orlando Ramirez/Getty ImagesA meteoric riseSunday’s success moves Kim, who clinched his maiden PGA Tour title at the Wyndham Championship in August 2022, up five places to a career-high world No. “Certainly because I’m 21, I’m not the oldest guy out here, and the kids here are even younger than me. 46 Hadwin had looked on course for a second PGA Tour title before disaster struck at the par-five 16th hole, his approach shot splashing into the water. It’s the best feeling just seeing the amount of kids out there screaming ‘Lexi, Lexi, go Lexi’.

Persons: Tom Kim, Korean phenom, Adam Hadwin, Kim, Jim Furyk, Tiger Woods, Ferrero Rocher, “ I’m, ” Kim, “, ” Kim toasts, Orlando Ramirez, Brian Harman, it’s, Shriners Children’s, I’m, Hadwin, ” Hadwin, “ Tom, Thompson, Lexi Thompson, teed, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, ” Thompson, Lexi, Lexi ’, ” Organizations: CNN, Korean, Shriners, Shriners Children’s, Wyndham Championship Locations: Las Vegas, Vegas, Europe

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Lexi Thompson kept a rough round from getting worse and wound up holding her own Thursday in the Shriners Children's Open until darkness kept her from finishing. Thompson was the main attraction of this FedEx Cup Fall event, the seventh woman to play a PGA Tour event and the first in five years. She was even par when she came up short of the green on par-4 seventh and had 12 feet for par. On the par-3 eighth, she came up well short in the rough, chipped about 25 feet by the hole and left her par putt 6 feet short. Then he holed a short birdie putt on the 18th for his 62.

Persons: — Lexi Thompson, Beau Hossler, Thompson, “, ” Thompson, . Poston, ” Hossler, Hossler, Cameron Champ, Davis Thompson, Lanto Griffin, Lexi Thompson's, Michelle Wie, who've, ”, ___ Organizations: LAS VEGAS, Shriners Children's, PGA, TPC, FedEx, Sony, Shriners

It had been more than 50 years since a woman played on the PGA Tour. Political Cartoons View All 1206 ImagesAnd then there was Michelle Wie West, who played eight times on the PGA Tour. Thompson has gone 73 starts on the LPGA Tour since her last win at the ShopRite LPGA Classic in 2019. “I know that Lexi at times has been one of the top players on the LPGA Tour and she's obviously very athletic. The spotlight and any negativity about playing a PGA Tour event don't seem to be a problem.

Persons: Lexi Thompson, Thompson, ’ ” Thompson, Michael Kim, Ben Griffin, “ I'm, ” Thompson, Brittany Lincicome, Annika Sorenstam, Suzy Whaley, Michelle Wie West, ”, ” Kim, Peter Malnati, “, Lexi, ” Malnati, Lydia Ko, Kevin Roy, Trevor Werbylo Organizations: Shriners Children's, PGA, PGA Tour, Colonial, Greater Hartford, Shriners, LPGA, LPGA Tour, Solheim, FedEx, U.S, Women's, Olympic Club, ANA Locations: Arkansas, Texas, Saudi, Spain, Europe, Vegas

THE COLONY, Texas (AP) — Hyo Joo Kim shot a 3-under 68 on Friday in The Ascendant LPGA to take a two-stroke lead over Sofia Garcia into the weekend, with resurgent Lexi Thompson tied for third. Kim had four birdies and a bogey in her morning round at Old American to reach 10-under 132. Thompson won the last of her 11 LPGA Tour titles in June 2019. The five-time LPGA Tour winner has two runner-up finishes and six other top 10s this season without winning. Defending champion Charley Hull, another European Solheim Cup player, had a 69 to get to 1 under.

Persons: — Hyo Joo Kim, Sofia Garcia, Lexi Thompson, Kim, ” Kim, Garcia, “, ” Garcia, Thompson, Celine Boutier, Boutier, ” Thompson, “ It’s, “ I’ve, It’s, haven’t, Lilia Vu, ” Boutier, Leona Maguire, Marina Alex, Maria Torres, Azahara Munoz, Charley Hull, ___ Organizations: Texas Tech, Globe, Solheim, She's, CME Globe, Evian, Scottish, Duke Locations: Texas, Paraguay, Las Vegas, United States, Spain, Arkansas, France, Europe

☆ Lexi Thompson to be seventh woman to compete at PGA Tour event with Shriners Children’s Open exemption
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Lexi Thompson will make history when she tees off at the Shriners Children’s Open next week, becoming just the seventh woman ever to compete in a PGA Tour event. An 11-time winner on the LPGA Tour, the American received an unrestricted sponsor exemption to make the 132-player field competing for a $8.4 million prize purse at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas from October 12. The appearance sees the 28-year-old joins Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Shirley Spork, Annika Sörenstam, Suzey Whaley, Michelle Wie West and Brittany Lincicome as the only women to ever compete at a PGA Tour event. “I was inspired when they did it,” Thompson told the PGA Tour. She has one major title to her name, having won the Kraft Nabisco Championship (now the Chevron Championship) in 2014.

Persons: Lexi Thompson, Didrikson Zaharias, Shirley Spork, Annika Sörenstam, Suzey Whaley, Michelle Wie West, Brittany Lincicome, Michael Owens, Thompson, Lincicome, “, ” Thompson, agonizingly, Stuart Franklin, Kim “ Tom ” Joo Organizations: CNN, Shriners, LPGA, American, Phoenix, Tucson, TPC, PGA, US Solheim, Arkansas, Kraft Nabisco, Chevron, Team USA, Solheim, Getty, Shriners Children’s, Shriners Children, South Locations: Las Vegas, Kentucky, Spain, Europe

THE COLONY, Texas (AP) — Hyo Joo Kim took the first-round lead Thursday in The Ascendant LPGA, breaking away at Old American with a back-nine birdie run in a 7-under 64. “My putting hasn’t been good, so I hadn’t been able to hit low scores,” Kim said. She's a rookie on the LPGA Tour. “I hit good drives, good approaches; I putted really nicely. Maddie shot 74 and amateur Ellie had a 76 in her LPGA Tour debut.

Persons: — Hyo Joo Kim, Kim, Azahara Munoz, Sofia Garcia, Yu, Sang Hou, Sarah Kemp of, American Marina Alex, ” Kim, “, ” Garcia, She's, ” Alex, Celine Boutier birdied, Lexi Thompson, Thompson, Charley Hull, Arpichaya, Maddie, Ellie Szeryk, Ellie, ___ Organizations: Old, Sarah Kemp of Australia, Texas Tech, LPGA, Globe, Solheim, CME Globe, Games Locations: Texas, Spain, Paraguay, Taiwan, American, Las Vegas, Arkansas, Thailand, China, Dallas

LAS VEGAS (AP) — LGPA Tour trailblazer Lexi Thompson will compete against men at the PGA Tour's upcoming event in Las Vegas. The Shriners Children’s Open announced Wednesday that Thompson received an unrestricted exemption into its tournament that begins Oct. 12 at TPC Summerlin. She will compete with 131 men for a $8.4 million purse. Thompson will become the seventh woman to compete in a PGA Tour event and the first since Brittany Lincicome did so at the 2018 Barbasol Championship. Political Cartoons View All 1199 Images“Shriners Children’s mission is to help all children live their best life regardless of what medical challenges lay in front of them,” said Patrick Lindsey, executive director of the Shriners Children’s Open.

Persons: Lexi Thompson, Thompson, Brittany Lincicome, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, “, ” Thompson, ”, Patrick Lindsey, Lexi, ” Thompson hasn’t, She’s, ___ Organizations: LAS VEGAS, PGA, Shriners Children’s, TPC, Shriners, Children’s, LPGA, U.S, Women’s, CME Globe Locations: Las Vegas

☆ Solheim Cup: Europe retains title after stunning comeback against USA
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-24 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Team Europe retained the Solheim Cup on Sunday, staging a remarkable late fightback to tie 14-14 with Team USA at Finca Cortesin Golf Club in Andalucia, Spain. For European captain Suzann Pettersen, who made nine playing appearances at the Solheim Cup, it pens another happy chapter in the her glittering story at the tournament. It came down to Carlota [Ciganda], in Spain, in her own hands,” Pettersen told Sky Sports. “I have many feelings right, I’m so happy just to do this for Suzann, for Spain,” Ciganda said. The 2024 Solheim Cup sees a return to even-numbered years at Robert Trent Golf Club in Virginia, a scheduling change made to avoid clashes with the Ryder Cup, which tees off in Rome on Friday.

Persons: Carlota Ciganda, Nelly Korda, Lexi Thompson, Emily Pedersen, Suzann Pettersen, Ciganda, ” Pettersen, John Walton, King Felipe VI, “, ” Ciganda, ‘ I’m, Stacy Lewis, Bernat Organizations: CNN — Team Europe, Solheim, USA, Sky Sports, Robert Trent Golf Club, Ryder Locations: Andalucia, Spain, Carlota, Virginia, 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

CASARES, Spain (AP) — The United States enjoyed its best-ever start to a Solheim Cup, sweeping the favored European team in all of the foursomes matches in the opening session to take a 4-0 lead in Spain on Friday. The U.S. trailed briefly in only two of the matches at Finca Cortesin in southern Spain. Thompson and Khang, who together have nine Solheim Cup appearances, took an early 3-up lead through three holes. Maguire had won four matches in her Solheim Cup debut two years ago,The teams will be back in the afternoon for the fourball matches, when each player will hit their own ball. The Americans arrived with a young team that included five rookies, though many who have won important tournaments recently.

Persons: Ally Ewing, Cheyenne Knight, Charley Hull, Emily Pedersen, Ewing, Knight, Lexi Thompson, Megan Khang, Maja Stark, Linn Grant, Thompson, Khang, Andrea Lee, Danielle Kang, Celine Boutier, Allisen Corpuz, Nelly Korda, Leona Maguire, Anna Nordqvist, Maguire, María Olazábal, Ryder, ___ Organizations: United States, Solheim, European, U.S, Finca, Cheyenne, Americans, Georgia Hall . U.S, Women’s, ”, Valderrama Locations: Spain, Europe, Wales, U.S, Georgia, ” Spain

Chien has won three times on what is now the Epson Tour and twice on the Taiwan LPGA. Former U.S. Women's Open champion Yuka Saso (66) and Charley Hull of England (68) were five shots behind. This is Thompson's final event before the Solheim Cup in Spain on Sept. 22-24. U.S. Women's Open champion Allisen Corpuz had another 72 and missed the cut, along with fellow U.S. Solheim Cup player Cheyenne Knight, who had a 73. Linn Grant of Sweden shot 71 and missed the cut ahead of her Solheim Cup debut.

Persons: —, Chien, “, ”, Ruoning Yin of, Morgane, Ruixin Liu of, Yin, Shanshan Feng, Liu, didn't, Yuka Saso, Charley Hull of, Rose Zhang, Lexi Thompson, Thompson, Allisen Corpuz, Cheyenne Knight, Linn Grant, Perrine Delacour, It’s, ” Delacour, I’m Organizations: CINCINNATI, Kroger, City Championship, Epson, Taiwan LPGA, Games, Kenwood Country Club, KPMG Women's, Former, Women's, Solheim, U.S, Cheyenne Locations: Chien, Taiwan, America, Asia, Ruoning Yin of China, Switzerland, Ruixin Liu of China, China, Former U.S, Charley Hull of England, Spain, Sweden

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

☆ Brian Harman powers to 2023 Open Championship victory, clinching first career major
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

CNN —Brian Harman won the 151st Open Championship on Sunday, sealing the first major of his career in dominant fashion. When Faldo birdied at the subsequent hole, Hoch's hopes of a first major win similarly went up in the air. David Cannon/Getty Images Europe/Getty Images Lorena Ochoa, US Women's Open (2005) Ochoa secured a top-four finish at the 2005 US Women's Open. Not when you led at the final hole. A par at the final hole would have been enough to put the American into the playoff, but an agonizing missed putt [pictured] epitomized her painful afternoon in San Francisco.

Persons: Brian Harman, Australia’s Jason Day, Austria’s Sepp Straka, Tom Kim, Jon Rahm, Harman, “ I’m, ” Harman, Osullivan, Brooks Koepka, Wyndham Clark, Rahm, Kim, Rory’s, Argentina’s Emiliano Grillo, ” McIlroy, “, ”, Luke Walker, Greg Norman, France’s Jean van de Velde, –, McIlroy, Andrew Redington, Sam Snead, Snead, Lew Worsham, Louis, Arnold Palmer, Palmer, Billy Casper, Casper, Ed Sneed, Sneed, Fuzzy Zoeller, Tom Watson, Watson, Scott Hoch, Hoch, Nick Faldo, skyward, Faldo birdied, Hoch's, Mark Calcavecchia, Calcavecchia, Colin Montgomerie, Germany's Bernhard Langer, Norman, Faldo, David Cannon, Jean Van De Velde, Van De, Van De Velde, Frenchman, Barry Burn, Paul Lawrie, Lorena Ochoa, Ochoa, Birdie Kim, Harry, Phil Mickelson, Mickelson, Lefty, Geoff Ogilvy, Ezra Shaw, Stewart Cink, Warren Little, Dustin Johnson, Johnson, Graeme McDowell, Donald Miralle, Jason Dufner, Dufner, Keegan Bradley, Bradley, Adam Scott, Ernie Els, Scott, Jordan, Buddy, Jordan Spieth, Danny Willett, Spieth, Jim Watson, Lexi Thompson, Yuka Saso, Thompson, Sean M, Mito Pereira, Pereira, Justin Thomas, Will Zalatoris, Christian Petersen, Van de Velde, Stuart Franklin, Ghostbuster Harman, Tommy Fleetwood, Read, Brian Harman shrugs, unflappable Organizations: CNN, 151st, PGA, Reuters, Northern, Royal Liverpool, PGA Championship, North, Louis Post, Bettmann, Augusta, Augusta National, Getty, Ryder, American, Scottish, Team Europe, . Augusta National, Barry Burn . Pictures, South Korean, Chevron, Royal Lytham, Nasa, Mito, Southern Hills Country Club, eventual Locations: Royal Liverpool, South, Georgia, Carnoustie, Augusta, North America, San Francisco, Kiawah, Europe, Jean Van De Velde , British, Scotland, Mexican, British, Turnberry, Atlanta, American, New York, St, Annes, squander, Tulsa, Liverpool, Harman’s

☆ Jaden Soong, 13, impresses as youngest ever to attempt final stage of US Open qualifying
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

A seventh grader at Thomas Starr King Middle School in California, Soong was granted absence time to compete in the grueling two round, 36-hole event dubbed “Golf’s Longest Day”. Soong became the youngest ever to reach the final round of US Open qualifying after edging through a three-way first stage playoff at Brentwood Country Club in California last month, securing his passage with a 12-foot putt. Zhang in action at the 2012 US Open at The Olympic Club in San Francisco, California. Neither Block stamped their ticket to the major next week, with the youngest finishing three shots behind Soong. His father missed out in agonizing fashion, finishing just two shots behind the highest scoring qualifier at Ontario’s Lambton Golf and Country Club and just one shy of making it on to the alternate list.

Persons: Jaden Soong, Thomas Starr, Soong, Brendan Steele, Dylan Block, Michael Block, Andy Zhang, Zhang, Harry, Bella Simões, Lexi Thompson, Rose Zhang Organizations: CNN, US, Hillcrest Country Club, Thomas Starr King Middle School, Los Angeles Country Club, Hillcrest, Brentwood Country Club, Olympic Club, Stanford University, Mizuho, Ontario’s, Country Club Locations: Los Angeles, California, Toronto, Canada, San Francisco , California, Brazilian, Ontario’s Lambton

☆ US Women's Open: Nine-year-old Brazilian Bella Simoes becomes youngest ever to attempt qualification
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

At nine years old, the Brazilian is the youngest player ever to attempt qualification to the tournament, set to tee off at California’s acclaimed Pebble Beach course for the first time in its 78-year history in July. Follow along @FSGA ➡️ https://t.co/622czXdhXk pic.twitter.com/4aYolLLL21 — U.S. Women's Open (USGA) (@uswomensopen) May 9, 2023Yet that should come as no surprise given Simões’ already-impressive résumé. Aged 14 in 2004, she bested many of the world's top men's players' and major winners at the Sony Open (pictured) despite narrowly missing the cut. The Brazilian shot 23-over par, as two players – Lindy Duncan and Brooke Matthews – secured automatic qualification with scores of 10-under and 8-under respectively. Kimberly Williams, a 60-year-old pro from Bethesda, Maryland, was the oldest player to attempt qualification this year, according to the USGA.

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