Storylines to comply with forward of the fiftieth anniversary of the AIG Ladies’s Open, stay on Sky Sports activities, the place Nelly Korda and Charley Hull are amongst these eyeing main victory at Royal Lytham & St Annes…
Can Korda and Ryu make additional main historical past?
The ladies’s main season has been dominated by two gamers, with Nelly Korda and Haeran Ryu each now having the chance to equal probably the most main wins in a calendar 12 months.
Korda claimed the Chevron Championship and US Ladies’s Open earlier than Ryu received the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship and Evian Championship, marking the primary time ever two gamers have registered a number of majors in the identical season.
Solely six gamers in historical past – throughout the lads’s and girls’s video games – have received three majors in a single 12 months, with Korda and Ryu trying to take pleasure in an unique membership with AIG Ladies’s Open victory.
Ben Hogan (1953) and Tiger Woods (2000) are the one males to have managed it, whereas Inbee Park received the primary three majors in 2013 to match the years of Babe Zaharias (195), Mickey Wright (1961) and Pat Bradley (1986).
Korda and Ryu are the one two within the operating for the Rolex ANNIKA Main Award, handed to the LPGA Tour participant with one of the best main document in a season. It could take one other main victory to resolve who additionally lifts that title.
Watch the ultimate holes of Haeran Ryu and Brooke Henderson that pressured a play-off on the Amundi Evian Championship
Will Korda shut out Grand Slam glory?
Arguably the most important shock of the Evian Championship was Korda’s missed lower, given the pre-tournament favorite was already a four-time winner this season and anticipated to problem for main victory.
Korda’s early exit in France snapped a 34-tournament run of cuts made and prolonged her pursuit of the profession Grand Slam, having claimed her third totally different main title with the US Ladies’s Open earlier within the season.
Nelly Korda made a bogey on the par-four seventeenth on her strategy to lacking the lower by a shot on the Evian Championship
Gamers who’ve received 4 of the 5 ladies’s majors are recognised as having accomplished a profession Grand Slam as a consequence of how the tournaments holding main standing has modified over time, giving Korda a recent alternative this week.
Korda completed tied-second behind Lydia Ko at St Andrews in 2024 however will look to go one higher in Lancashire, the place victory will see her turn out to be the primary since Park within the ladies’s recreation to affix the Grand Slam membership.
Highlights of the US Ladies’s Open, the place Nelly Korda claimed an exciting victory
She completed tied-Sixteenth on the ISPS Handa Ladies’s Scottish Open however stays the participant to catch this week, the place a twentieth LPGA Tour title and fifth main win would additionally safe her the 2 factors required to substantiate her place within the LPGA Corridor of Fame.
Can Yamashita go back-to-back on the Ladies’s Open?
It is 15 years since Yani Tseng grew to become the final participant to go back-to-back in a ladies’s main, following her 2010 win at Royal Birkdale with a four-stroke victory at Carnoustie a 12 months later, however Miyu Yamashita has an important alternative to finish that streak.
Miyu Yamashita claimed her first main victory after capturing a composed two-under 70 within the ultimate spherical of the AIG Ladies’s Open
Yamashita was a 13-time winner on the LPGA of Japan Tour however considerably of an unknown amount to a British viewers forward of final 12 months’s main breakthrough, when she held off Charley Hull to earn a two-shot win at Royal Porthcawl.
The Japanese participant’s recreation has gone from power to power since, together with her including LPGA Tour success on the Maybank Championship later that 12 months earlier than defeating Lottie Woad in a play-off to win the Meijer LPGA Traditional in June.
England’s Lottie Woad missed out on her second LPGA Tour victory of the season as Miyu Yamashita snatched a dramatic play-off victory on the Meijer LPGA Traditional
That victory is considered one of 4 top-five finishes in her final six worldwide begins, together with a share of fourth on the Evian Championship and a share of fifth place in Scotland final week. Strong kind to take into a serious title defence!
Will Brits take pleasure in main three-peat in Lytham?
It is 30 years since Dame Laura Davies claimed the final of her 4 main titles, with half of the British ladies to take pleasure in main glory since managing it at this week’s venue.
Alison Nicholas received the US Ladies’s Open in 1997 and Karen Stupples received the AIG Ladies’s Open in 2004, whereas the final two editions of this occasion held right here at Royal Lytham and St Annes have produced British champions.
Highlights from the ultimate spherical of the 2018 Ricoh Ladies’s British Open, the place Georgia Corridor accomplished a powerful residence win
Catriona Matthew grew to become Scotland’s first feminine main champion together with her win right here in 2009, simply 11 weeks after giving beginning to her second daughter, then Georgia Corridor claimed a two-shot victory in her 2018 version.
Hull leads residence hopes this 12 months as she chases her breakthrough main title, having been a five-time runner-up in majors – together with twice in three years at this event, whereas Woad is hoping to construct on top-10 finishes in her earlier two AIG Ladies’s Open appearances.
The Sky Sports activities Golf podcast mentioned earlier within the 12 months how vital 2026 might be for Charley Hull’s profession
Over 50,000 followers are anticipated throughout event week, with the overwhelming majority hoping to see one other British champion.
Who could make a late Solheim Cup push for Workforce Europe?
The qualification race to function in Workforce Europe’s Solheim Cup facet reaches a climax this week, giving gamers one final likelihood to attempt to pressure their means into Anna Nordqvist’s plans.
Nordqvist has confirmed she is not going to be a taking part in captain, regardless of her spectacular kind in latest begins on the LPGA Tour, with the Swede seeing her eight computerized qualifiers confirmed this weekend forward of naming her 4 picks subsequent week.
Chiara Tamburlini narrowly sits second within the LET factors listing forward of Helen Briem, Agathe Laisne and Cara Gainer, with considered one of that rookie quartet prone to be part of Charley Hull in qualifying through that methodology.
Lottie Woad, Maja Stark, Celine Boutier, Carlota Ciganda, Linn Grant and Esther Henseleit at present occupy the six spots on supply through the world rankings, whereas Leona Maguire impressed in Scotland final week as she chases a Workforce Europe return.
Highlights from the ultimate day of the 2024 Solheim Cup, the place Workforce USA claimed a powerful 15.5-12.5 victory over Workforce Europe
Nanna Koerstz Madsen, Dutchwoman Dewi Weber and England’s Mimi Rhodes are among the many different European gamers on the planet’s high 100 – may an enormous main week put them in Solheim Cup consideration?
There’ll probably be a distinct look to Nordqvist’s facet from the one overwhelmed on American soil in 2024. Nordqvist has beforehand mentioned there have been ‘onerous telephone calls forward’ and several other gamers this week will need to make these selections even harder.
When is the AIG Ladies’s Open on Sky Sports activities?
Sky Sports activities stays the unique residence of the AIG Ladies’s Open within the UK and Eire, with Featured Teams protection accessible for the primary time and 6 hours extra of stay motion on Sky Sports activities than ever earlier than.
Featured Teams protection begins at 9am on Thursday and Friday on Sky Sports activities Golf, forward of full protection getting beneath means at 1pm, with stay protection of rounds three and 4 then starting at noon over the weekend.
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