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Five-Time LPGA Tour Winner Lilia Vu Clinches Spot on U.S. Solheim Cup Team

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Five-time LPGA Tour winner Lilia Vu has mathematically clinched a spot on the 2024 U.S. Solheim Cup Team.

After finishing in a tie for second at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, the 26-year-old has racked up 1,932.50 total points throughout the Qualifying Period, which began at the 2023 Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions and will run through the final day of the AIG Women’s Open on Aug. 25.

Vu has earned five LPGA Tour victories in that span, becoming a Rolex First-Time Winner at the Honda LPGA Thailand in 2023 and then capturing her first major title at The Chevron Championship not long after in April. The Epson Tour graduate won another major championship at the AIG Women’s Open at Walton Heath Golf Club, collecting one more 2023 title in November at The ANNIKA driven by Gainbridge at Pelican.

Her four victories not only propelled Vu to Rolex Player of the Year honors and the Rolex ANNIKA Major Award; they also qualified Vu for her first U.S. Solheim Cup Team. She earned a 1-3-0 record at Finca Cortesin in Andalucia, Spain, winning her singles match over Madelene Sagstrom to nab a point for the Americans, who went on to tie the Europeans for the first time in Solheim Cup history.

The 2024 LPGA Tour season has seen Vu struggle with a lingering back injury, discomfort that caused her to withdraw from her title defense at The Chevron Championship and take a much-needed two-month hiatus to rest and recover.

Then in her first start back on Tour at the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give , Vu showed no signs of rust, winning the event after emerging victorious from a three-hole playoff with Grace Kim and Lexi Thompson.

“I just couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe I won this week,” said Vu after her win in Michigan. “I was setting my bar really low so that I could meet it. I think because I tend to get in my own way when I'm trying to win, that's when I don't win most of the time, so just trying to stay in my lane, take advantage of all the good shots and make all the birdie putts that I get.”

Even though she has been dealing with injury, U.S. Solheim Cup Captain Stacy Lewis knows that having an experienced and healthy Vu tee it up at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in September will be a major asset for the Red, White and Blue.

“Coming off last year, when Lilia had an unbelievable year, it was just a matter of time for her to make the team,” said Lewis. “This year, not getting started the way she would have liked and having to deal with her injury definitely set her back for a bit. It’s been very exciting to see how she’s played the last two starts, coming out of the injury with her win and really just picking up where she left off.

“She’s a tremendous player, from ball striking to putting with a true all-around game. We’re excited to have her back for her second Solheim Cup, with an opportunity to step up and become a leader on this team.”

Vu is the second U.S. player to clinch a spot on the 2024 team, joining Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings No. 1 Nelly Korda, who secured her spot on the squad a couple of weeks ago, following the ShopRite LPGA Classic presented by Acer.

The 19th edition of the Solheim Cup will be held at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Va., from September 13-15. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit https://www.solheimcupusa.com/overview .

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LPGA Tour star Charley Hull forced out of Aramco Team Series London after 'nasty fall'

England's Charley Hull has been forced to withdraw from the Aramco Team Series presented by PIF - London.

Charley Hull has revealed she was forced to withdraw from this week's Aramco Team Series presented by PIF – London due to a shoulder injury.

Hull , 28, withdrew from the Ladies European Tour event on Tuesday morning on medical grounds after consultation with a physiotherapist.

The World No.8 walked out of Centurion Club after having only played six holes in the first round. 

Shortly afterwards, Hull took to Instagram Story to divulge more details.

Hull claimed she had a 'nasty fall' on Sunday. 

Hull wrote: 

"Today I had to withdraw from @aramcoteamseries London following medical advice, due to ongoing pain in my right shoulder following a nasty fall on Sunday night. I'm so disappointed as I always love playing in this series, particularly in front of a home crowd. "Sorry to the fans who came out to watch, my playing partners for leaving you after 6 holes, and to all those behind the scenes who work tirelessly to make these events run so well @golf_saudi @letgolf."

Hull left golf fans in awe at her 'saucy' club twirl last week. 

In recent months, Hull has split opinion in the golf world by ripping darts on the course. 

Runaway World No.1 Nelly Korda was also forced to withdraw from Aramco Team Series London.

Korda made the call last week just days before the event after having being bitten by a dog . 

Tournament sponsors and English golf fans have therefore been left somewhat deflated this week as a result of the star two names pulling out of the event. 

Aramco Team Series London teed off this morning at Centurion Club with 36 teams of three professionals and one amateur battling it out on day one and two before a final day shootout for the pros on Friday 5 July. 

The Aramco Team Series presented by PIF – London is the third of five events on the global team series, with an Asian event in October to be announced, ahead of the finale in Riyadh in November.

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Less than 100 days away, the Epson Tour Championship gives the desert another pro event

In just three months, the Coachella Valley’s newest professional golf tournament will come to town.

That will be the Epson Tour Championship, the season finale for the LPGA’s developmental tour. At the end of the 72-hole tournament at the Indian Wells Golf Resort, 15 golfers will have earned at least some playing privileges on the LPGA for 2025.

Followers of the LPGA may have some understanding of the Epson Tour and what it offers, but casual golf fans might not know much about the developmental tour. Here are some important points as the Tour Championship is less than 100 days away on Oct. 3-6.

It’s an international tour

Yes, it is based in the United States, but so is the LPGA itself, and the LPGA features top women players from around the world. The same is true of the Epson Tour. Of the top 15 players at the top of the Race for the Card at the moment, only five are from the United States. The top two players in that chase right now, Fiona Xu and Cassie Porter, are both from New Zealand, a country growing in importance in women’s golf. Other countries represented in the top 15 at the moment are Taiwan, China, South Korea, South Africa, Colombia, the Netherlands and Slovenia.

The tour is in its final chase for 2024

The Epson Tour has played 11 tournaments so far this year, meaning there are only six regular season events remaining before the Tour Championship in Indian Wells. The Epson golfers will play twice in July, twice in August and twice in September. Those final six tournaments will take golfers across the country, with starts in Connecticut, New York, Oregon and Indiana before two starts in Alabama.

More: Epson Tour Championship in Indian Wells will award more exemptions to LPGA for 2025

There are past LPGA players nearing a return

The Epson Tour is not just about college players looking for their first taste of professional golf or international players looking to break through in the United States. Just like on the PGA Tour with the Korn Ferry Tour, there are golfers who are working on the Epson Tour to return to the LPGA. That list includes a player like Kim Kaufmann, ranked 422 nd in the Rolex World Ranking, currently 173rd in the Race to the CMW Globe on the LPGA Tour and third in the Epson Tour Race for the Card. As recently as 2019, Kaufmann played in 21 events on the LPGA, though she has played only a handful of events on the LPGA in recent years. At third in the Race for the Card, Kaufmann has a strong chance of returning to the LPGA in 2025.

The West Coast swing was in April and May

The Epson Tour played two events in Arizona, one in Utah and one in California earlier in the year. The California event was played in Beaumont at the Morongo Golf Club at Tukwet Canyon. The IOA Championship presented by Morongo Casino was traditionally played the last week of March but moved to the last weekend in April. Juliana Hung of Taiwan won the title in a rout, shooting 21-under par for the 54-hole event for a nine-shot victory over current points leader Fiona Xu. If you are looking for someone with success near the desert, Hung is the player.

The Tour Championship has some differences

The tournament at Indian Wells Golf Resort’s Player Course will be a 72-hole event, rather than the 54 holes played at other Epson Tour events. And while the purse for the Tour Championship won’t be the largest on the tour – still $287,500 – the key is the Tour Championship will offer 650 points to the winner. The other Epson Tour tournaments offer 500 points to the winner. So getting into the Tour Championship and having a great week could move a player up into the top 15 where playing exemptions for the 2025 LPGA Tour are available.

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Get all live updates for the LPGA Tour’s Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational here. The event is played at Midland Country Club in Midland, Michigan, United States.

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The Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational in the season 2024 is being played in Midland, Michigan, United States at the Midland Country Club. The tournament starts at the Thursday, 27th of June and ends at the Sunday, 30th of June 2024. The Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational is part of the LPGA Tour in the season 2024. In 2024 all players competing for a total prize money of $3,000,000. The course for the tournament at Midland Country Club plays at Par 70.

The Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational features a unique team format where 72 two-person teams compete in both alternate shot (foursome) and best ball (four-ball) formats over 70 holes. The tournament, which has increased its prize fund to $3 million, aims to foster community engagement and has significantly impacted the local economy and charities since its inception in 2019.

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The LPGA Tour is the largest tournament series in women’s professional golf. Most events are held in the USA, but the tour also has a global focus, for example with a strong Asian swing. Five major tournaments are organised on the women’s tour: the Chevron Championship, the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, the U.S. Women’s Open and, in cooperation with the Ladies European Tour, the Ricoh Women’s British Open and the Evian Championship.

In addition to the LPGA Tour, there is also the second-tier Symetra Tour, which can be used to qualify for the next season of the big tour. Similar to the men’s tour, there are also qualifying tournaments, the annual Qualifying School, where you can earn the right to play on the LPGA Tour, the Epson Tour or neither, depending on your ranking.

The LPGA is the oldest continuing women’s professional sports organisation in the United States. It succeeded the WPGA (Women’s Professional Golf Association, 1944-1949). The LPGA was founded in 1950 by 13 founding women. Alice Bauer, Patty Berg, Bettye Danoff, Helen Dettweiler, Marlene Hagge, Helen Hicks, Opal Hill, Betty Jameson, Sally Sessions, Marilynn Smith, Shirley Spork, Louise Suggs, and Babe Zaharias.

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Golf TV Times: How to Watch the John Deere Classic, BMW International Open

John schwarb | jul 2, 2024.

PGA Tour: John Deere Classic

Site: Silvis, Illinois.

Course: TPC Deere Run. Yardage: 7,289. Par: 71.

Full field: 156 players .

Prize money: $8 million. Winner’s share: $1.44 million.

Television: Thursday-Friday, 4-7 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 1-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-6 p.m. (CBS).

Defending champion: Sepp Straka.

FedEx Cup leader: Scottie Scheffler.

Last week: Cam Davis won the Rocket Mortgage Classic.

Notes: Jordan Spieth is playing the John Deere Classic for the first time since he won in 2015. He did not defend the following year because of a change in the schedule brought on by the Olympics, and then he did not return because it preceded the British Open. ... Spieth has fallen to No. 53 in the FedEx Cup. ... The field does not have anyone from the top 20 in the world ranking but it has 15 players from the top 50 in the FedEx Cup last year, a 50% increase from the previous year. ... The leading two players not already exempt will earn a spot in the British Open. ... Among those receiving a sponsor exemption is Neal Shipley, who was low amateur at the Masters and the U.S. Open. ... Florida State’s Luke Clanton is in the field. He tied for 10th last week in the Rocket Mortgage Classic. ... Tom Kim is not playing after having played the last nine weeks on the PGA Tour.

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Next week: Genesis Scottish Open and ISCO Championship.

DP World Tour: BMW International Open

Site: Munich.

Course: Golfclub Munchen Eichenried. Yardage: 7,347. Par: 72.

Prize money: $2.5 million. Winner’s share: $416,667.

Television: Thursday-Friday, 6:30 a.m. to noon (Golf Channel); Saturday, 7:30 a.m. to noon (Golf Channel); Sunday, 7 a.m. to noon (Golf Channel).

Defending champion: Thriston Lawrence.

Race to Dubai leader: Rory McIlroy.

Last week: Marcel Siem won the Italian Open.

Notes: This is the second stop in Germany in six weeks and features Germany’s greatest player, Bernhard Langer. ... The leading five players from among the top 20 in the Race to Dubai after this week will be exempt for the British Open. Among those trying to play their way in is Matteo Manassero of Italy. ... LIV Golf players in the field include Thomas Pieters, German star Martin Kaymer and Patrick Reed. ... Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald is playing this week. ... The lone player from the top 50 in the world is Ryan Fox. ... The field feature eight Olympic-bound players. ... Joost Luiten and Darius van Driel, who qualified for the Olympics but were not approved by Dutch Olympic officials, are playing. Van Driel is among those who have a chance to earn a British Open exemption. ... Kaymer is the last German to win the tournament. ... Former PGA champion and Ryder Cup captain Paul Azinger won the tournament twice.

Last week: Ruoning Yin and Atthaya Thitikul won the Down Championship.

Next week: Amundi Evian Championship on July 11-14.

Race to CME Globe leader: Nelly Korda.

PGA Tour Champions

Last week: Richard Bland won the U.S. Senior Open.

Next week: Kaulig Companies Championship.

Charles Schwab Cup leader: Stephen Ames.

LIV Golf League

Last tournament: Tyrrell Hatton won LIV Golf Nashville.

Next week : LIV Golf Andalucia.

Points leader: Joaquin Niemann.

Korn Ferry Tour

Last week: Max McGreevy won the Memorial Health Championship.

Next week: The Ascendant.

Points leader: Steven Fisk.

Other tours

Asian Tour: International Series Morocco, Royal Golf Dar Es Salam (Red), Rabat, Morocco. Defending champion: Jazz Janewattananond.

Japan Golf Tour: Japan PGA Championship, Fuji Country Kani Club Kani GC, Gifu, Japan. Defending champion: Kensei Hirata.

Ladies European Tour: Aramco Team Series-London, Centurion GC, Hemel Hempstead, England. Defending champion: Nelly Korda.

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PGA Tour has final signature event as LPGA goes to Sahalee for 3rd major

Bryson DeChambeau holds the trophy in the bunker after winning the U.S. Open golf tournament Sunday, June 16, 2024, in Pinehurst, N.C. (AP Photo/Matt York)

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TRAVELERS CHAMPIONSHIP

Site: Cromwell, Connecticut.

Course: TPC River Highlands. Yardage: 6,852. Par: 70.

Prize money: $20 million. Winner’s share: $3.6 million.

Television: Thursday-Friday, 3-6 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 1-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-6 p.m. (CBS).

Defending champion: Keegan Bradley.

FedEx Cup leader: Scottie Scheffler.

Last week: Bryson DeChambeau won the U.S. Open.

Notes: This is the final signature event with a $20 million purse and small field. There will not be a cut at the Travelers Championship. ... Rory McIlroy withdrew one day after he bogeyed three of his last four holes to finish one shot behind in the U.S. Open. ... Adam Scott and Webb Simpson each received a sponsor’s exemption, the fifth one for a signature event for both of them. They serve on the PGA Tour policy board. ... Michael Thorbjornsen, who finished No. 1 in the PGA Tour University ranking, received an exemption. He finished fourth at the Travelers in 2022 while at Stanford. ... The leading five players from the top 20 in the FedEx Cup after this week earn exemptions to the British Open. Christiaan Bezuidenhout currently is the only player from the top 20 not eligible. Thomas Detry is just outside the top 20. ... Xander Schauffele and Bryson DeChambeau are the only players with top-10 finishes in all three majors this year.

Next week: Rocket Mortgage Classic.

Online: https://www.pgatour.com/

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KPMG WOMEN’S PGA CHAMPIONSHIP

Site: Sammamish, Washington.

Course: Sahalee Country Club. Yardage: 6,831. Par: 72.

Prize money: $10 million. Winner’s share: $1.5 million.

Television: Thursday-Friday, 4-6 p.m. (Peacock), 6-10 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday, 1-3 p.m. (Peacock), 3-6 p.m. (NBC), 6-8 p.m. (Golf Channel); Sunday, 12-3 p.m. (Peacock), 3-7 p.m. (NBC).

Defending champion: Ruoning Yin.

Race to CME Globe leader: Nelly Korda.

Last week: Lilia Vu won the Meijer LPGA Classic.

Notes: The third LPGA major of the year returns to Sahalee for the first time since 2016, when Brooke Henderson of Canada won her first major. ... This is the final week before the women’s world ranking is used to determine the 60 players who qualify for the Olympics. ... The Americans will have only three players for the Paris Games unless Megan Khang has a good week. She is No. 16 in the world ranking, one spot behind Lydia Ko. ... Lexi Thompson moved from No. 75 to No. 33 in the Race to CME Globe after her playoff loss last week. ... Of the four players who already have topped $1 million, Ayaka Furue of Japan is the only one who has yet to win on the LPGA this year. ... Sahalee hosted the 1998 PGA Championship that Vijay Singh won over Steve Stricker. ... Nelly Korda has missed the cut in consecutive tournaments for the first time since the Founders Cup and the KPMG Women’s PGA last year.

Next week: Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational.

Online: https://www.lpga.com/ and https://www.kpmgwomenspgachampionship.com/

LIV GOLF LEAGUE

LIV GOLF NASHVILLE

Site: College Grove, Tennessee.

Course: The Grove GC. Yardage: 7,297. Par: 71.

Prize money: $20 million. Winner’s share: $4 million.

Television: Friday, 1-6 p.m. (CW app); Saturday-Sunday, 1-6 p.m. (CW Network).

Defending champion: New event.

Points leader: Joaquin Niemann.

Last tournament: Carlos Ortiz won LIV Golf Houston.

Notes: Bryson DeChambeau plays just one week after he captured his second U.S. Open title by beating Rory McIlroy by one shot at Pinehurst No. 2. ... DeChambeau joined Brooks Koepka as the only active LIV players to win a major. ... LIV had three players finish in the top 10 at the Masters. In the next two majors, DeChambeau was the only player in the top 10. ... Tennessee is the 12th state to host a LIV event. ... The Grove is a Greg Norman design that previous hosted a Korn Ferry Tour event and NCAA men’s regional tournaments. ... DeChambeau has only one finish in the top five at LIV Golf this year. He has two top fives (a win and runner-up) in the majors. ... LIV Golf has six players from four countries who have qualified for the Paris Olympics. ... Dustin Johnson has only one top 10 since winning in LIV Las Vegas earlier this year. He has missed the cut in two out of three majors this year.

Next tournament: LIV Golf Andalucia on July 12-14.

Online: https://www.livgolf.com/

EUROPEAN TOUR

Site: Amsterdam.

Course: The International. Yardage: 6,914. Par: 71.

Prize money: $2.5 million. Winner’s share: $416,667.

Television: Thursday-Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 12: 30 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 6:30-11:30 a.m. (Golf Channel).

Defending champion: Pablo Larrazabal.

Race to Dubai leader: Rory McIlroy.

Notes: Six players in the field were in North Carolina last week for the U.S. Open, all but one of them missing the cut. Tom McKibbin of Northern Ireland tied for 41st. ... Sebastian Soderberg makes his first start since he took double bogey on the final hole to lose the Scandinavian Mixed by one shot to Linn Grant. He is No. 2 on the Race to Dubai. ... Luke List is not in the PGA Tour’s signature event this week. He is playing in the Netherlands on a sponsor exemption. ... Matt Wallace is in the field, the only player in the field to have won on the European tour and the PGA Tour. ... Henrik Norlander is using one of the spots for PGA Tour players who finished from No. 126 to 200 in the FedEx Cup last year. He also played in Sweden two weeks ago. ... Three players who have competed on LIV Golf this year are among the top 11 in the Race to Dubai. ... Europe has nine players among the top 25 in the world ranking.

Next week: Italian Open.

Online: https://www.europeantour.com/dpworld-tour/

PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS

DICK’S SPORTING GOODS OPEN

Site: Endicott, New York.

Course: En-Joie CC. Yardage: 6,994. Par: 72.

Prize money: $2.1 million. Winner’s share: $315,000.

Television: Friday, 12-2 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 3-6 p.m. (Golf Channel).

Defending champion: Padraig Harrington.

Charles Schwab Cup leader: Stephen Ames.

Last tournament: Ernie Els won the American Family Insurance Championship.

Notes: Padraig Harrington plays for the first time since he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame during the U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2. ... This is the last tournament before a pair of majors. The U.S. Senior Open is next week, and then after a bye week, it’s the Kaulig Companies Championship at Firestone in Ohio. ... Steve Stricker is not on the field. He is the only player in the top six in the Charles Schwab Cup standings who hasn’t won this year. ... Ken Tanigawa, Billy Andrade and Paul Broadhurst are the only players on the PGA Tour Champions who have played all 13 tournaments this year. ... Ernie Els and Stephen Ames are the only players with multiple victories this year. ... Angel Cabrera is on the alternate list, unlikely to get in. He won on the Legends Tour in Europe last week. It was his first win since getting released from prison in Argentina last summer for gender violence.

Next week: U.S. Senior Open.

Online: https://www.pgatour.com/pgatour-champions

KORN FERRY TOUR

COMPLIANCE SOLUTIONS CHAMPIONSHIP

Site: Norman, Oklahoma.

Course: Jimmie Austin OU GC. Yardage: 7,487. Par: 72.

Prize money: $1 million. Winner’s share: $180,000.

Television: None.

Previous winner: Jimmy Stanger.

Points leader: Tim Widing.

Last week: Taylor Dickson won the Wichita Open.

Next week: Memorial Health Championship.

Online: https://www.pgatour.com/korn-ferry-tour

OTHER TOURS

Epson Tour: Island Resort Championship, Sweetgrass GC, Harris, Michigan. Defending champion: Tsai Ching Tseng. Online: https://www.epsontour.com/

Japan Players Championship, Nish Nasuno CC, Tochigi, Japan. Defending champion: Hideto Tanihara. Online: https://www.jgto.org/en/

Asian Tour: Kolon Korea Open, Woo Jeong Hills CC, Cheonan, South Korea. Defending champion: Seungsu Han. Online: https://asiantour.com/

Challenge Tour: Blot Open de Bretagne, Golf Bluegreen de Pleneuf Val Andre, Pleneuf, France. Previous winner: Stuart Manley. Online: https://www.europeantour.com/challenge-tour/

Ladies European Tour: Tipsport Czech Ladies Open, Royal Beroun GC, Beroun, Czech Republic. Defending champion: Diksha Dagar. Online: https://ladieseuropeantour.com/

PGA Tour Americas: The Beachlands Victoria Open, Uplands GC, Victoria, British Columbia. Defending champion: Etienne Papineau. Online: https://www.pgatour.com/americas

Japan LPGA: Earth Mondahmin Cup, Camellia Hills CC, Chiba, Japan. Defending champion: Jiyai Shin. Online: https://www.lpga.or.jp/en/

Korea LPGA: Hankyung Ladies Cup, Fortune Hills CC, Pocheon, South Korea. Defending champion: Minji Park. Online: https://klpga.co.kr/

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LPGA Tour star Charley Hull withdraws from Aramco Team Series in London due to injury

Charley Hull , one of the biggest stars of the LPGA Tour , had to withdraw from the Aramco Team Series in London on Wednesday morning.

Hull played only six holes in the Ladies European Tour event and then pulled out of the tournament due to an injury. The Englishwoman consulted with a physiotherapist, who recommended that she stop playing. The extent of the injury is unknown at this point.

At last week’s Dow Championship , in which she competed with her best friend Georgia Hall, Hull gave zero indication that she had any ailments. The all-English duo tied for fifth, playing well in the two-woman team event in Michigan.

But now, three days later, Hull saw her momentum stalled in London, not for good reason. Her appearance at next week’s Amundi Evian Championship, the fourth major of the LPGA season in France, is now in jeopardy. Hull has made the cut in each of the three majors this season, with her best finish coming at Sahalee in Washington, where she tied for 16th at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship.

Last season, Hull missed the cut at the Amundi Evian Championship, a mere weeks after tying for second at the U.S. Women’s Open at Pebble Beach. And yet, it looks as if she will not have a chance to redeem herself along the shores of Lake Geneva next week.

Hopefully, this injury is more cautionary than reactionary.

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The 2022 LPGA Tour schedule has been announced, with record prize money for the 34-event docket that means better playing opportunities across the board.

The most significant changes to the schedule are increases to purses in two majors and the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship.

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The biggest purse increases on the 2022 LPGA Tour schedule are in three majors, with the US Women's Open purse increasing to $10 million from $5.5 million. The Chevron Championship (formerly the ANA Inspiration) and the AIG Women's Open are seeing huge increases.

The season-ending CME Group Tour Championship purse is also increasing by $2 million to $7 million. The winner of the event will now earn $2 million, marking the biggest first-place prize in women's golf history.

Other tournaments to announce elevated purses are the Trust Golf Women’s Scottish Open ($2 million, up $500,000 from 2021), the LPGA Mediheal Championship ($1.8 million, up $300,000 from 2021), the Pelican Women’s Championship ($2 million, up $250,000 from 2021), the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational ($2.5 million, up $200,000 from 2021), the Meijer LPGA Classic ($2.5 million, up $200,000 from 2021) and the HSBC Women’s World Championship ($1.7 million, up $100,000 from 2021). Additional purse increases are expected to be announced throughout the season.

There are several new events on the schedule, with JTBC stepping up to increase their sponsor presence on the Tour. The JTBC Championship at Palos Verdes completes a California triple around The Chevron Championship. The Kroger Queen City Championship brings the LPGA to Cincinnati.

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LPGA has young star Rose Zhang and great golf. So why is women's tour stagnating?

If the lpga and nbc can't sell charismatic american superstar rose zhang as she tries to win the u.s. women's open at pebble beach, it’s not a great sign for the overall health of the tour..

This is arguably the best time to be in the business of women’s sports.

The World Cup beginning later this month in Australia and New Zealand is going to smash records for ticket sales and television ratings. The WTA recently announced an initiative to reach equal prize money with the men’s tennis tour by 2027, a standard that has already been in place at the Grand Slams for several years. 

The Women’s Final Four and Women’s College World Series are showing positive viewership trends, and the NCAA is poised to cash in when their television rights come up for renewal. Athletes in those sports and more have become big stars, with some generating six-figure marketing deals.

Professional team sports are also undergoing a transformation. The Seattle Storm recently sold a 14 percent stake at a $151 million valuation, setting a new benchmark for the WNBA. At the halfway mark of its season, the NWSL posted increases of roughly 50 percent from last year both in attendance and streaming viewers. 

So there’s no longer a debate about where women’s sports fit into the landscape. With the right investment and marketing, they aren’t just a niche; there’s real mainstream appeal.

Which makes it all the more confusing and troubling that the LPGA seems like it has stagnated at best and is getting left behind at worst at the very moment it should be taking off like a rocket. 

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This week, the U.S. Women’s Open will be held at Pebble Beach for the first time in tournament history, offering the biggest prize in women’s golf projected at around $10 million with roughly $1.8 million going to last year’s winner. On Saturday and Sunday, NBC will devote primetime coverage to a women’s major for the first time. 

And the star of the show is going to be Rose Zhang, a 20-year-old from Southern California who turned pro in May after 141 weeks as the world’s No. 1 amateur and promptly won her first start on the LPGA Tour . Oh, and she also happens to own the women’s course record at Pebble, shooting 63 a couple years ago while playing for Stanford. 

If there were ever a time for the stars to align in women’s golf, this is it. But is the infrastructure in place to capitalize on the moment?

It would be incredibly unfair, of course, to place the entire burden of the sport on the shoulders of a young woman who was in college a few months ago. Zhang could very well be in contention on Sunday, but there's a good chance she won’t be. That's the nature of the sport.

But just a couple weeks ago, she was very much in the mix at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, mounting a Sunday charge at Baltusrol Golf Club that almost saw her win a major in just her second tournament as a pro.

I was glued to the television for the final round. It was among the most compelling golf I’ve seen this year as another 20-year-old phenom, China’s Ruoning Yin, took the title. But on social media, it didn’t seem like any of it was breaking through − a sense that was confirmed by a mediocre television number (658,000 viewers) that was actually lower than last year.

If the LPGA and NBC can’t sell a charismatic American superstar trying to win a major fresh out of college on one of America’s most well-known and historic golf courses, it’s not a great sign for the overall health of the tour. 

I’m not here to tell anyone what to watch on a Sunday afternoon, but from where I sit − more as a fan than a journalist on this topic − women’s golf has long been one of the most undervalued properties in sports.

Are we ever going to get to the point where a U.S. Women’s Open final round out-rates a men’s U.S. Open like we often see in a tennis Grand Slam final? Probably not. 

But unlike the men’s game, where technology and power have simply overwhelmed most golf courses, the LPGA offers spectacular shot-making with a variety of clubs and spins and strategies for attacking holes that go beyond bashing it as far as possible with a driver.

If you like golf, why wouldn’t you like watching that?

With Zhang’s arrival, it’s time for the big stakeholders in golf to embrace the LPGA like a serious opportunity to broaden the entire sport’s fan base. That takes financial investment, and it takes passion − neither of which are being shown at an acceptable level to meet this moment. 

Sure, the USGA is committing at least $10 million to the Women’s Open purse. It’s still half of what the men make. The same goes for the R&A ($7.3 million to $14 million) and the PGA of America, which has more than doubled its prize money from a few years ago to $10 million but still falls short of the $17.5 million going to the men. 

Save the excuses about the women’s game not selling as many tickets or not having as many fans as the men and instead ask yourself why that is when a comparable sport like tennis has found a way to sell the women’s game at an extremely high level.

Are you holding tournaments just to hold tournaments, or are you "growing the game," which is the catch phrase you’ve heard plenty over the last year to justify all kinds of morally problematic behavior? Maybe, just maybe, if these organizations invested more, they’d actually put some pressure on themselves to help market the sport.

Speaking of which, in 2014 the USGA made the bold move to stage the Women’s Open at Pinehurst one week after the men played the same course, which meant a full week of promoting it. Surprise, surprise: Television ratings went up 92 percent from the year before. 

Nobody is denying that there are challenges. It’s a touchy subject, but the volume of excellent South Korean players coming onto the tour over the last 20 years − some of whom don’t speak much English or aren’t comfortable communicating in it − has presented some barriers for American audiences. 

However, world No. 1 Jin Young Ko speaks excellent English and is a delightful personality. The current top-10 of the LPGA season-long race includes two Americans, a Canadian, an Australian, a New Zealander and an Irish woman in addition to two Koreans along with women from Thailand and China − in other words, a tour that looks like the golf-playing world.

Meanwhile, when healthy, Olympic gold medalist Nelly Korda could be the face of the game. Megan Khang, whose parents came to the U.S. as Vietnam War refugees from Laos, has one of the best backstories in all of sports. 

If you can’t sell that − especially in a sport that needs more women playing and watching after decades of acting like an Old Boys Club − then you don’t have much imagination for what’s possible. 

All around us, we’re seeing other sports figure out how to do it. With Rose Zhang as the LPGA’s fresh-faced superstar, another window of opportunity has opened. Will golf finally walk through it? 

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