“As the calendar turns to March 2026, and another season on the Road to the LPGA is upon us, the Epson Tour is introducing a fresh way for fans to connect with the athletes chasing LPGA dreams: its official podcast, Dream Chasing. The debut episode launches on March 5, timed perfectly as 2025 Epson Tour graduate Hailee Cooper steps onto the biggest stage in the sport, the LPGA Tour.”
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“The PGA Tour has recently gotten into the habit of pairing up amateur golfers -- often teenagers -- with stars to play an entire hole together during a pro-am or a practice round before an event.
The pairing of Gary Woodland and Amy Bockerstette from Special Olympics Arizona (with a Matt Kuchar cameo) this week at the 2019 Waste Management Phoenix Open is probably the best one yet. Amy and Gary met up on the famous par-3 16th at TPC Scottsdale, with Woodland inviting Amy to play the hole with him. After Amy meets Woodland, Kuchar and Kuchar's caddie John Wood, the group walks up to the pro-am tee.”
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“Miguel Tabuena has made history after being confirmed as the first player from the Philippines to earn full-time status on the LIV Golf League roster for the 2026 season, following a standout rise through The International Series.
The 31-year-old will compete throughout the season as a Wild Card, beginning this week at LIV Golf Adelaide, held at The Grange Golf Club from 12–15 February. “
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“Before Megan Khang became a professional golfer with the LPGA and an FM ambassador for the FM Championship, she was just a Massachusetts kid playing at Button Hole — a par-3 golf course in Providence.
Khang’s father worked as an auto mechanic in Rhode Island not far from the golf course. On weekends, the Mass. native would play at the par-3 course and even drag some of her extended family along with her.”
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“Allisen Corpuz kept her patience while spinning her wheels for so much of the year and finally saw some good results Thursday when she opened the FM Championship with a 7-under 65 to share the first-round lead with Sei Young Kim and fast-closing Jodi Ewart Shadoff.”
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“Megan Khang is going to be seeing a lot of her own face at the next two LPGA Tour stops.
This week, Khang is back in Canada, where she captured her first career win in 2023, and next week, she returns to her native Massachusetts, where she serves as an unofficial tournament host at the FM Championship. Both tournaments have heavily utilized images of Khang in their promotional materials, and knowing these two events would mean a lot to her personally and professionally, she took the past two weeks off to get rested and refreshed so she can take on all that these two weeks entail.”
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“It’s one thing to play lights out at an LPGA Tour event. It’s icing on the cake to look super stylish while doing so.
Frankly, that defines Gurleen Kauer who turned gallery and TV viewers’ heads with her strong play and fabulous fashion en route to career-best second place finish at the Portland Classic this past weekend.”
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“Two-time LPGA Tour winner Lauren Coughlin lived it up before making the trek to Oregon to compete this week at The Standard Portland Classic.
Coughlin spent last weekend in Seattle with her husband, John Pond, and some family friends, the latter of whom she also attended a Metallica concert with before the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship in June.”
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“Melanie Green may have grown up in the small town of Medina, N.Y., but she always knew deep down that she was destined for golf greatness.
Melanie was the No. 1 recruit in 2020 from New York when she signed with the University of South Florida in November 2019, her sights set on putting a storied program back on the map. During her collegiate career, she broke countless USF records, most notably becoming the first AAC Women’s Golf Player of the Year to come out of the school’s program.”
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“Just over three years removed from a record-setting performance to become a Drive, Chip and Putt National Champion, Mia Hammond again used a final putt to secure her spot in the history books. This time, the 17-year-old tapped in to win the Greater Toledo Classic and become the first amateur in five years (and eighth overall) to win on the Epson Tour.”
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“For the first time in five years, the Epson Tour has crowned an amateur champion.
Local superstar Mia Hammond joins current Epson Tour member, Sarah White, as the eighth amateur to win on the Official Qualifying Tour of the LPGA. White took home the trophy at the 2020 Founders Tribute at Longbow Golf Club after getting into the tournament the same way as Hammond, via a sponsor exemption. Hammond’s victory comes with a cherry on top, however, as she claimed the trophy in her home state in a professional setting on a course she has played twice before as an amateur.”
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“When Stacy Lewis learned that the LPGA Tour wasn’t going to have an event in Sylvania, Ohio, during the 2025 season, she went to work.
Having been born in the area and played in virtually every edition of what was most famously known as the Marathon Classic over the last nearly two decades, Lewis knew the locals and the charities the annual LPGA event benefited would greatly miss the Tour’s presence this year.”
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“Defending champion Lauren Coughlin is looking forward to the week ahead at the 2025 ISPS HANDA Women’s Scottish Open.
The American secured a four-stroke victory at Dundonald Links in 2024 defeating Germany’s Esther Henseleit to claim the trophy.”
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“As young Lottie Woad makes her pro debut at this week's ISPS Handa Women's Scottish Open, veteran Lauren Coughlin experiences a first of her own. Coughlin, 32, will defend an LPGA title for the first time this week at Dundonald Links.
Needless to say, Coughlin's route to the LPGA was a bit bumpier than Woad's. A walk-on at Virginia who played in regional events growing up, Coughlin dropped down to the Epson Tour after losing her LPGA card early on and took the long route to the winner's circle – finally hoisting a trophy after 103 LPGA starts.”
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“There are eight players with Kentucky ties playing in this week's PGA ISCO Championship. It was moved from the Lexington area to Hurstbourne Country Club this year. But it is really coming home for a pair of Louisville natives, Brendon Doyle and Stephen Stallings, Jr.
Stallings said he's played Hurstbourne Country Club too many times to count. Doyle said maybe one hundred times. Whatever the number, both will be counting this week's rounds at Hurstbourne as among their most special.”
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“Emma Talley and golf honors go hand-in-hand.
The Princeton native is one of only six women ever to win both the U.S. Women’s Amateur and the NCAA Div. I Individual Championship.”
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“When it comes to alternate shot, it certainly pays to get off to a good start. It gets the day into a certain kind of groove. And proves to each partner that the vibe for the round is strong.
Lauren Hartlage and Brooke Matthews had exactly that kind of start Saturday at the DOW Championship."
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“Lexi Thompson and Megan Khang discuss what makes their team so successful and how they are navigating Midland Country Club at the Dow Championship.”
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“LPGA Tour athletes will often hit shots that make viewers stop in their tracks. But on Thursday at the DOW Championship, Megan Khang’s caddie had to stop traffic.
Khang, who is one half of Team Biggie Smalls at the LPGA Tour’s lone team event, found herself slightly out of position on No. 16 after a tee shot from Lexi Thompson was pushed to the left. Alas, Khang knew the rules and took an appropriate drop and then hit a magical recovery shot underneath a tree to the back of the green.”
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“FRISCO, Texas — Lauren Coughlin can tell you the exact moment she fell in love with Metallica.
‘It was right after COVID, and I was back at my parents’ house, and I was driving in my old 2008 Scion TC. That was my car from high school,’ Coughlin remembers. “It doesn’t have any fancy radio or anything, so I was listening to the radio, and the song “Unforgiven” came on, and I was like, ‘Who is this? I’ve never heard this song.’ I looked it up, and it was Metallica.”
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