LPGA Golf News

"I'm very surprised - yeah, my play or my ranking," Jiyai Shin says. "I'm very surprised because in LPGA, so many good players out there." Jiyai Shin , at just 21 years old, may just be the best female golfer in the world -- and she will get a chance to prove it starting Thursday at the U.S. Women's Open on Saucon Valley Country Club's Old Course ...

Six years ago, Jan Stephenson spoke of how Asians were "killing" the LPGA Tour because they didn't speak English.

One of the procedures Tricia Burdzy had to endure last year was called a heated chemo bath.

Marquee names on the women's tour want LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens to resign, Golfweek Magazine said.

Submitted by Garry Smits on Thu, 07/09/2009 - 12:05. Multiple media sources are reporting that LPGA commissioner Carolyn Bivens has begun negotiating a buy-out for the last two years of her contract with the LPGA Board of Directors.

Nancy Lopez did not play in last week's Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic, but she was very much in attendance during almost the entire tournament.

Annika Sorenstam's mental make-up: It's no surprise that the No. 1 players in both the men's and women's games for much of the last decade have had the strongest mental abilities on their respective tours.

Here are their predictions: James Achenbach Winner: Jiyai Tseng. OK, I made that up.

When the sectional qualifying round for the U.S. Women's Open concluded nearly a month ago, two players who didn't make the cut had everyone up in arms.

By any historical standard, definitive comparisons are difficult. Some have described the move to remove the commissioner of the LPGA from power as a coup d'etat, but since the insurrectionists have failed to stand up and be counted, much less arm themselves with pitchforks or pitching wedges in the public square, that's a bit of a stretch.

Eunjung Yi hasn't won in six starts on the 2009 Duramed Futures Tour, although the South Korean who lives in California has two top-10s. But Yi won her first LPGA Tour title Sunday at the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic, edging Morgan Pressel in a playoff.

The snap, crackle, pop of backyard fireworks were going off all around Highland Meadows Golf Club late Saturday afternoon.

Several years ago, Karrie Webb observed, "If you get hot at the right time you can win three majors and all the money." That right time is right now.

Maybe I'm just too big a fan of Philadelphia sports, or maybe just into serious, dark humor, but do you remember this situation? Terrell Owens, the star wide receiver, then of the Eagles, is told to leave the team.

Up to 15 top LPGA players met last week and the result was a letter to the tour's board of directors calling for the resignation of LPGA commissioner Carolyn Bivens, Golfweek reported Monday.

South Korean Yi Eun jung birdied the first play-off hole to beat American Morgan Pressel and capture the LPGA Jamie Farr Classic.

A meeting last week of more than a dozen players has resulted in a letter sent to the LPGA Tour's board urging that commissioner Carolyn Bivens resign, according to a published report.

Helen Alfredsson, who was the 1993 runner-up, finished second again after struggling to a two-over 75 in the final round.

Last Thursday a dozen or so top players convened for dinner and it was LPGA commissioner Carolyn Bivens who got roasted, as the players aired their various grievances about her leadership.

Eunjung Yi blew a six-stroke lead then hit a 10-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole to defeat Morgan Pressel and capture her first LPGA victory Sunday in what might be the final Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic.