#womensgolf

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Rose Zhang Can Hit It Pure. Shinnecock Wants to See Her Hands.

Conquering Shinnecock Hills Demands Rose Zhang’s Short Game Mastery

Conquering Shinnecock Hills asks Rose Zhang to turn awkward lies, hard collars and bunker trouble into the ugly pars that define major tests

Rose Zhang’s ball striking already belongs in major conversations.

Shinnecock will ask for something meaner.

A clean iron can still roll into a hollow. A good miss can still leave a tight lie with the green running away. A safe looking collar can turn one short shot into a whole argument between wedge, putter and pride.

That is where Zhang’s test gets real.

Shinnecock does not only punish reckless golf. It punishes players who almost got it right. The course waits beside the green, in the bunkers, on the firm collars, in those ugly little recovery shots nobody remembers until they decide the week.

Zhang has the calm for it.

Now she needs the hands.

One bump and run. One safe bunker splash. One putter from off the green when the stylish shot is a trap. That is how a major survives. Not with one perfect swing, but with five ugly pars that refuse to become worse.

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Lexi Thompson Can Hit It Miles. Shinnecock Only Cares About Touch.

Putting Speeds Define the Lexi Thompson Shinnecock What If

Putting Speeds turn Lexi Thompson’s Shinnecock what if into a sharp test of rhythm, touch major scars and late-round nerve at Riviera in 202

Lexi Thompson’s power always made golf look bigger.

Shinnecock would make it smaller.

That is the whole tension. A perfect drive can still leave the wrong angle. A clean iron can still finish above the hole. Then everything comes down to pace, nerve and one putt that refuses to stop rolling.

That is where Lexi’s story gets heavy.

She has lived the loud version of golf: prodigy pressure, major heartbreak, Solheim Cup noise and every short putt carrying more memory than it should. Shinnecock does not care about any of that. It only asks one cold question.

Can you make the first roll calm?

Fast greens do not reward panic. They punish it quietly. Too firm and the ball keeps sliding. Too soft and the slope wins before the cup ever matters.

For Lexi, the driver starts the story.

The putter decides whether it survives.

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Riviera’s Barranca Does Not End the Hole. It Starts the Argument.

Riviera’s Barranca Menace Could Decide the U.S. Women’s Open

The U.S. Women’s Open arrives at Riviera with history nerve and risk. Riviera’s barranca menace could become the week hardest, smartest test

Riviera looks polished until the ground opens up.

That is the warning.

The barranca is not a normal hazard. Water ends the conversation. Out of bounds gives no choice. But Riviera’s ravine does something meaner. It lets the ball stay alive just long enough to tempt a bad idea.

That is what could shape the U.S. Women’s Open.

A player finds the ball. The lie looks possible. The stance feels awkward but playable. Kikuyu grabs at the club. Suddenly, the smart shot feels boring and the reckless shot starts whispering.

That is where championships tilt.

Riviera will not only ask who hits it longest or who handles the spotlight. It will ask who can choose patience when the course offers false hope.

The barranca is not there for decoration.

It is there to make confidence argue with common sense.

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Nelly Korda Can Hit It Perfect. Pinehurst Can Still Say No.

How Pinehurst Will Punish Nelly Korda if Her Putting Speed Fails

Pinehurst turns Nelly Korda’s elite ball striking into a putting-speed exam with crowned greens grain and one bad roll waiting again in 2029

Nelly Korda’s ball striking can make golf look simple.

Pinehurst No. 2 exists to make simple feel dangerous.

A perfect iron can land softly, take one extra hop, catch a shoulder and roll away like the course changed its mind. That is the problem. At Pinehurst, the hard part does not end when the ball reaches the green.

It starts there.

Korda can own the tee shot. She can own the approach. But on crowned greens with shaved edges and Bermuda grain, one slow putt can turn control into doubt. One lag left four feet short can follow her to the next tee. One comeback putt can make the whole round feel heavier.

That is why this matchup is so good.

Pinehurst will not ask if Korda has enough talent.

It will ask if her touch can survive the silence after a perfect shot rolls away.

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The LPGA Power Era Is Here, and the Golf Ball Is Losing

Breaking Down the Driving Distances on the LPGA Tour

Breaking down LPGA driving distances through the stars who stretched fairways changed strategy and made 290 yards feel reachable on tour now

Women’s golf is not waiting politely at 250 anymore.

The LPGA power era has arrived, and it is changing how every course has to defend itself. Longer drives are not just making highlight clips prettier. They are changing angles, shrinking par 5s and turning old landing zones into launch pads.

That is what makes this shift so fun.

A player who carries the ball farther does not only gain yards. She gains choices. She can fly trouble. She can attack corners. She can hit shorter clubs into greens that were built to receive something much harder.

But power also brings pressure.

When everyone gets longer, distance stops being a bonus and starts becoming the entry fee. The real stars will be the players who can add speed without losing control, shape or nerve.

The LPGA is not entering a power era someday.

It is already standing in it, driver in hand.

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The LPGA Is Not Asking for Attention Anymore. It Is Taking the Whole Map

LPGA Expanding Its Global Footprint in 2026 Turns a Schedule Into a $132 Million Passport

LPGA global footprint in 2026 gets sharper as $132 million, live TV, Asia Mayakoba and major venues turn women’s golf into a true world tour

The LPGA’s 2026 schedule does not read like a quiet golf calendar.

It reads like a passport with pressure attached.

Thailand heat. Singapore humidity. Mexico scars at Mayakoba. Riviera glamour. Royal Lytham wind. The Solheim Cup in the Netherlands. This is not women’s golf staying in the corner and hoping people notice.

The tour has 33 events across 13 countries and a record $132 million prize fund, which changes the whole mood. Bigger money matters. Live coverage matters. Better venues matter. But the real test is memory.

Can fans follow the road?

Can they care about a player fighting jet lag in Asia, finding form in Houston, then trying to hold that swing together when links wind starts bullying the ball in July?

That is the hook.

The LPGA is not just expanding.

It is making women’s golf feel like a world tour with real consequences.

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Memorial Park Makes the Chevron Winner Walk Through the Noise

The Winner’s Walk at Memorial Park: Why the Chevron Finish Feels Different

Winner’s Walk at Memorial Park shows how Memorial Park’s closing holes and rebuilt leap changed the feel of Chevron Sunday in Houston.

The Chevron finish at Memorial Park does not feel sealed off or polished.

That is the point.

This is not a champion disappearing into some private club dream. This is a major ending on a public Houston course where the city still feels close, loud and alive. The winner has to walk through all of that before the final splash.

That makes the pressure different.

The closing holes do not hand out comfort. Fifteen asks for touch. Sixteen tempts a dangerous choice. Seventeen refuses to let anyone breathe. Eighteen turns one decent drive into another question about angle, lie and nerve.

Then comes the walk.

Not just celebration. Exposure.

The pond jump tradition still matters, but Memorial Park makes it feel less like a postcard and more like something earned in public. A player does not just win here.

She survives the noise, the course, and the moment.