The U.S. Women's Open returns to Lancaster this weekend as Allisen Corpuz looks to defend her title and Nelly Korda plays for her seventh win this season.
With its thick rough, notable changes in elevation and series of sloping greens, the Old Course at Lancaster Country Club presents quite the challenge for the 156-golfer field at this weekend's U.S. Women's Open, the second major championship of the LPGA season., playing in what will be her 18th straight start at the Open, a difficult course like this is perfect for tournaments of this magnitude.
Her string of wins also include her daring attempt at setting a new LPGA record. Korda came up just short of a historic sixth-straight tournament victory at the Cognizant Founders Cup in New Jersey three weeks ago, remaining tied with World Golf Hall of Famers Nancy Lopez and Annika Sorenstam at five in a row.
An amateur-friendly event, the U.S. Women's Open is often the tournament where the game's eventual top pros begin their careers. So like other golfers in Lancaster this week, Korda has been nostalgic, reflecting on the first time she competed in the Open. This week's Women's U.S. Open will be Rose Zhang's first event in three weeks after she won at the Upper Montclair Country Club. . She acknowledged her dad might deserve a little credit, too, after his pre-tournament comment that a 23-under had once won it.
"Definitely I want to win this one pretty badly," Zhang said."It's one of the most prestigious fields, most prestigious golf tournaments that the women's game can play."On Tuesday, Thompson, a two-time Olympian and six-time competitor in the Solheim Cup, stunned the golf world with news that this"I'm taking it day by day right now," Thompson said at a news conference Tuesday.
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