Solheim Cup bubble: With only two events left, see which Americans need to make a move →

With two events left before teams are finalized for the 2021 Solheim Cup, only two players – Nelly Korda and Danielle Kang – have mathematically locked up their positions on Team USA. Still, it would seem that Danielle Kang, Ally Ewing, Austin Ernst, Lexi Thompson and Jessica Korda are fairly secure on the points list.

The top seven players automatically qualify and right now, Megan Khang occupies that final spot. With 238.5 points, Khang holds a 33.5 point lead over Brittany Altomare.

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Handicapping the Olympic Women's Golf Competition With Former Olympian Gerina Piller →

In the first in a new series on Morning Read, hosts Amy Rogers (Golf Channel, LPGA) and Adam Stanley will break down each week of the LPGA Tour schedule and discuss the biggest topics in women's golf. 

In this new episode, they recap the ISPS Handa World Invitational presented by Modest! Golf Management and the return of the GOAT, Annika Sorenstam, who won the U.S. Senior Women’s Open by eight shots. Plus, they preview the women’s Olympic golf competition – and give their picks for gold – and have an insightful conversation with 2016 Olympian, Gerina Piller.

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Emma Talley Lets The Air Out Of The Balloon →

At times on Saturday, there was awkward tension for Emma Talley with her boyfriend Patrick Smith, the caddie for Jennifer Kupcho. For the couple, competing in the same grouping with Talley as the 36-hole leader was unchartered territory.

Nonetheless, Talley maintained on moving day to shoot even par and share the 54-hole lead in the ISPS Handa World Invitational presented by Modest! Golf Management at -13 overall.

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Emma Talley, 36-hole leader at Handa, ready for Round 3 battle with boyfriend →

Emma Talley can’t remember the last time she was the solo leader after 36 holes in an LPGA Tournament and on Friday she carded a 7-under 65 to lead by three shots heading into the weekend at the ISPS Handa World Invitational.

“This is the first time in a long time that I've been in this position,” said Talley after her round. “I feel really relaxed. There's a lot of golf left, so just going to stay patient and keep doing our thing.”

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Maria Fassi takes lessons learned from Stacy Lewis to career-best 65 at Evian Championship →

It didn’t take long for Stacy Lewis’ influence to pay off for Maria Fassi. It was Fassi who asked the former No. 1 and fellow Razorback to partner with her at the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational. Fassi soaked up every second of the experience and came into this week’s Amundi Evian Championship on the highest note of the season.

On Saturday, Fassi matched her career-low round of 65 with eight birdies to move into the top 20 at 6 under for the tournament. Her best finish in a major is a tie for 12th at the 2019 U.S. Women’s Open, her professional debut.

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Mexico's Gaby Lopez, Paraguay's Fabrizio Zanotti carry country's flags during Olympic Opening Ceremony →

Gaby Lopez, one of just two Mexican golfers ever to win on the LPGA Tour, has been thinking about the Tokyo Olympics for some time now.

“That’s my ultimate goal, being able to peak at that week,” Lopez told Golf Channel earlier this year. “That’s what my schedule is going to be played around, being rested, being prepared, in time to play well that week.”

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Rounds in the 60s Key to Top Results for Lauren Stephenson →

Lauren Stephenson continues to back up one solid outing with another.

In each of her five top-15 finishes this year, including the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational team event, Stephenson has recorded consecutive rounds in the 60s. Such is the case at the Amundi Evian Championship, where Stephenson has started 66-69 to sit at -7 overall through 36 holes in the fourth major of the LPGA Tour season.

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Lopez Lights Up Olympic Stadium Carrying Her Country's Flag →

The smile is always big and inviting but nothing like this. On Friday morning, just as Jeongeun Lee6 was putting the finishing touches on a record-setting round at the Amundi Evian Championship, another LPGA Tour star, Gaby Lopez, was realizing her lifelong dream by carrying the flag of Mexico ahead of her home country’s delegation of athletes into the Olympic stadium in Tokyo.

“It’s a dream come true for sure,” Lopez told LPGA.com before boarding her flight for the Games. “Being able to carry the flag for my country and seeing how many great athletes have done that in the past, athletes like Roger Federer and so many others, to add my name to that list is just incredible.”

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LPGA's Gaby Lopez serves as flagbearer for Mexico in Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony →

While the rest of the LPGA chased Jeongeun Lee6’s historic run at the Amundi Evian Championship in France, Gaby Lopez enjoyed a once-in-a-lifetime walk in Tokyo.

Lopez carried the flag for the Mexican delegation during the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games. She told Golf Channel back in January that the president of the Mexican Olympic Committee first approached her about the possibility after she won the 2020 Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions.

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Yuka Saso asks Stacy Lewis for autograph; pair then combines to shoot 13 under →

“Nothing felt more humbling to Stacy Lewis than having a U.S. Women's Open champion ask for her autograph.

Yuka Saso, the 20-year-old who tied Inbee Park as youngest player to win the U.S. Open (19 years, 11 months, 17 days), played with Lewis on Thursday and Friday at the Marathon LPGA Classic in Ohio. 

“Gosh, what a talent. Just fun energy and a really likable kid,” said Lewis when asked about the young major champion.”

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Monday Qualifiers: Travelers Championship →

The Monday qualifier for this week’s Travelers Championship was a stacked field. Spencer Levin and Zack Sucher were competing for spots in this week’s event. Rising stars with phenomenal potential such as Justin Suh and 2019 U.S. Amateur runner-up John Augenstein also were in the field. However, all of the above failed to create the storyline Monday at Ellington Ridge Country Club in Ellington, Connecticut.

Instead it was Stephen Stallings Jr. who stole the spotlight. He carded the lowest round of his professional career after firing a bogey-free 63 (-9). It was a “stress-free” round for Stallings Jr. He noted that his wedge game was exceptional, and he bested the nearest qualifier by two shots.

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Dear Chesnee: Stacy Lewis pens letter to her daughter →

Dear Chesnee,

Being your mom has been the greatest joy of my life. For most of my life before you I was focused on my golf game, my professional career and myself.

In the spring of 2018, when I found out that you were on your way, I couldn't believe it. I always wanted to be a mom. But like so many other women, I was scared of what was to come. Could I do it all? Could I play competitive golf at the highest level and be a good mom?

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Megan Khang, the fighter, taking every punch Olympic can offer →

SAN FRANCISCO – She’s happy-go-lucky, she wears shorts when it’s freezing cold, but most importantly, Megan Khang is a fighter.

Every time Khang steps onto the first tee of a tournament, she’s thinking of her family. “If I can do what I love to help them not have to worry about anything ever again, I’m going to do whatever it takes to make that happen,” Khang told the LPGA in May during AAPI Heritage month.

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Playing For Family: Megan Khang Tees Off Every Week With A Pledge And A Purpose →

Megan Khang accepts that there will always be gaps in her family story. Survivors of war often paint their experiences with a roller instead of a delicate brush. Like many survivors, the Khangs, who saw their relatives and friends brutalized, imprisoned and murdered in the late stages of the CIA’s secret war in their home country of Laos, never shared a lot of details. All that 23-year-old Megan, who was born in Massachusetts, knows is that “My parents at a young age, there was the war going on, and the Hmong people had helped the Americans, so they were offered asylum. My parents were lucky enough to be a part of that. They had different journeys getting to Thailand, because that was how they got to the United States, through Thailand.”

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Brittany Lincicome prepares to return to LPGA in Las Vegas after suffering a miscarriage →

Brittany Lincicome was getting ready to put daughter Emery down for a nap when she picked up the phone. They’d been at a neighbor’s pool party with the family dog Dexter. On Monday, she’ll fly to Las Vegas for the LPGA’s match play event at Shadow Creek, ready to get back to work.

Lincicome was supposed to be at the Pure Silk Championship at Kingsmill this week. Last Monday, her bags were packed, and her parents were set to drive her to the airport after a routine doctor’s visit at the 12-week mark of her pregnancy. The day prior, Lincicome had experienced light bleeding. She talked to her doctor and friends and everyone assured her it was probably fine.

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Sarah Kemp leads Pure Silk LPGA Championship with rookie Ana Belac lurking →

Two years ago at this time, Ana Belac was a senior on the Duke roster, helping her Blue Devils work their way through NCAA Championship week and ultimately to the national title. Belac was a big part of Duke’s seventh NCAA trophy – its first in match play – and hasn’t looked back since charting her career as a professional.

The 24-year-old from Slovenia finished first on the Symetra Tour money list last year, which earned her LPGA membership for the 2021 season as well as a start in the U.S. Women’s Open in December. Now, she’s lurking on an LPGA leaderboard.

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Lauren Stephenson A Better Archer With A New Arrow →

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. | There are two kinds of golfers: those who stick with the same putter for decades, believing that it holds some sort of magic like Thor’s hammer or King Arthur’s sword, and those who collect putters like postage stamps, believing that changing arrows will make a better archer.  

Jack Nicklaus was the former. He won 17 of his 18 majors with a classic heel-shafted MacGregor. Bobby Jones won the Grand Slam with the now famous, hickory-shafted Calamity Jane. And Ben Crenshaw, one of the greatest putters in history, used the same MacGregor 8802, nicknamed “Little Ben,” throughout his career.  

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Brittany Lang The Best Thing In The World →

Becoming a mom has been the best thing in the world. It sheds new light and perspective on everything. Having our daughter, Shay, in January of 2020 actually helped my golf game because of the new dimension it added to our lives.

My husband, Kevin, and I were so grateful for our daughter. But it was a long road. Kevin is seven years my senior, so he was ready to become a parent before I was. When we finally made the decision, it took us about three years. We considered in vitro fertilization. We talked about adoption, which we believe is one of the greatest blessings in life. We also went through all kinds of testing. Then, after deciding to undergo IVF and setting up the appointment, we got pregnant on our own, proving once again that God works in amazing ways. We had prayed and prayed, and nothing had happened. And then, once we set up the IVF appointment, we kind of relaxed and our prayers were answered.

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Liu Wins Tucson’s Symetra Tour Event →

TUCSON (KVOA) -- Ruixin Liu (China) came from six shots down on Sunday to win the Symetra Tour's Casino del Sol Classic at Sewailo Golf Club in Tucson.

Liu birdied the last four holes to force a playoff with Florida State grad Morgane Metraux (Switzerland) at 15-under par. Metraux had led by five shots at the beginning of the final round.

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Want To Hit The Ball Straighter? Try These 3 Tips From LPGA Pros →

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Bombing the golf ball is all the rage these days. The long ball has always been appealing, but hard data has increasingly supported the sentiment that distance is an incredible advantage. And with Bryson DeChambeau pushing the limits in the professional ranks, golf is at a crossroads.

But just because distance has taken hold of the game doesn’t mean it’s easy to achieve — especially for those weekend warriors with less free time than DeChambeau. Nor does distance-chasing on the professional level mean swing speed should be your No. 1 priority, either. 

In fact, most amateur golfers would be better served focusing on another important skill with the big stick — accuracy. On the LPGA Tour, there are a number of players who choose accuracy over distance. Lizette Salas and Megan Khang are two of those fairway chasers, with each ranking inside the top five on Tour in driving accuracy.

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