Archive for the Ladies European Tour Category


Year-End Awards Highlight Stars On All Tours.

The Hollywood Foreign Press announced their nominations for the Golden Globe Awards this week and the Academy of Arts and Sciences will be doing the same in a month or so. And while December is a hot month for movies, it is a decidedly slow one for golf. That being said it’s a great opportunity […]

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US victory raises profile of Solheim Cup and women’s golf

The Solheim Cup was more than a victory for the United States over Europe. It also proved that women’s golf was worth watching. Golf watchers from both sides of the Atlantic hailed the event as it provided riveting theatre, drama and great shots from both sides. The US won the tournament 16-12 for their third […]

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Golf: Going For Gold In 2016

Tiger Woods has just about done it all in the game of golf: 14 major championships, 69 career wins on tour, a record stay at world number one, NCAA, U.S Amateur and Junior titles, Fed-Ex, Ryder, and Presidents Cups. There’s not much else to conquer really. Over the weekend at the Buick Open Sir Nick […]

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LPGA Players Call For Commissioner To Step Down

Mutinies are historically associated with pirates and sea-faring ships. They are not, usually, associated with putters and professional sports. However, that’s exactly what has transpired this week as a number of LPGA players have called for, and possibly received, the resignation of LPGA commissioner Carolyn Bivens. In the same week as the biggest event event […]

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Mocs’ On Track For NCAA Championship

When you’re a mid-size college golf program making the NCAA Championship is a big deal. When your team is less than two seasons old and comprised entirely of freshmen and sophomores, that achievement becomes a whole lot more impressive. Two seasons ago Colette Murray was named head coach of the University of Tennessee Chattanooga women’s golf program, […]

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Annika Sorenstam Announces She’s Preganant

A couple of years ago we figured she was a super hero. Now we know she’s human after all. Annika Sorenstam, former World No. 1 and the most dominate female golfer of the past generation announced Thursday that she and husband Mike McGee, are expecting their first child. The announcement came on her website after […]

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The Circus Is In Town – Hip Hip Hip Hooray!

There is something magical about the circus coming to town! No I’m not talking about the Big Top and CoCo The Clown, but instead the LPGA, Ladies European Tour and The Ladies Golf Union. Whilst 27 Open Championships have be held at St Andrews, this will be the very first time a Women’s British Open […]

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Is the LPGA Tour Becoming Too Young?

There is a tremendous youth movement right now on the LPGA Tour, which depending on point of view, could be a good or bad thing for the game. On one hand, this influx of young talent is bringing the LPGA Tour to unprecedented heights. Never before, in the history of the women’s game, has it […]

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Should Michelle Wie Play With the Guys?

Teenager Michelle Wie, who has been out of the spotlight with a wrist injury, created a stir this week by once again accepting a sponsor invitation to the PGA Tour’s John Deere Classic. The announcement comes on the heels of negative feedback from LPGA players, who disagreed with her inclusion into the lucrative Samsung World […]

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The First Scottish Golfing Superstar

With the Women’s British Open being played at St Andrews this year the tournament will, again, garner the sort of headlines that the mainstream media seem loathe to give women’s golf throughout the rest of the year. Yet it is often widely forgotten that women and golf have been closely connected in Scotland for centuries.  […]

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Home Of Golf To Welcome Women’s British Open

I can’t believe the great golf events that are happening right under my nose during this upcoming summer. There is the Open at Carnoustie, the Seniors at Muirfield and then at the beginning of August there is the Women’s British Open Championship at the Old Course, St Andrews. I’ve attended the Women’s British Open Championship […]

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British-Indian Teen Matharu Hailed As the Female Tiger Woods

America and Thailand have Tiger Woods, now Britain and India hope they have their own mixed-race superstar. She is Kiran Matharu, the first high-profile British-Asian golfing star who is hoping to supplant Michelle Wie as the next true teenage sensation. The 17-year-old Curtis Cup player has a string of titles to her name, including the […]

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LPGA’S First Major of 2007

To me, the golf season doesn’t officially start until the year’s first major. And this year, The Kraft Nabisco Championship edges The Masters on the schedule by seven days – thus putting The LPGA front and center this week. So naturally there are some questions – such as, will Annika continue her dominance in 2007? […]

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