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USA Today
16 minutes ago
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- USA Today
Check out some stunning images of Royal Porthcawl, host of the 2025 AIG Women's British Open
It's a first for women's pro golf. Royal Porthcawl is hosting the AIG Women's British Open for the first time in 2025. It's also the first time for Wales to host the championship, which started in 1976. Royal Porthcawl opened at its current location in 1895 along the southern coast of Wales in the U.K. It's not in the rota for the men's British Open but it has hosted three Senior British Opens, three Women's British Amateurs and seven British Amateurs as well as one Walker Cup and one Curtis Cup. The golf course, designed by Ramsey Hunter and J. Simpson, ranks 15th on Golfweek's Best 2025: The top 50 classic courses in Great Britain and Ireland. It will play as a par 72 measuring 6,728 yards this week and features a par-5 closing hole. There have been 41 winners of the 48 Women's British Opens to date. Check out some photos from the championship early week at Royal Porthcawl.
USA Today
an hour ago
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- USA Today
2025 AIG Women's British Open live updates, leaderboard for Thursday's first round
Time flies when we're having fun. This week marks the final major of the season in pro golf and the fifth one overall in the women's game, as the AIG Women's British Open tees it up Thursday at Royal Porthcawl in Wales. Lydia Ko is the defending champion after claiming the Women's British Open a year ago at St. Andrews. Keep tabs on the first round of the Women's British Open all day Thursday right here. 2025 AIG Women's British Open leaderboard To see the first-round leaderboard in action, click here. Where to watch, follow the 2025 Women's British Open In addition to the options listed below, the R&A will live stream coverage all four days as well. The complete daily viewing information can be found here. What are the tee times for the first round of the Women's British Open? The first group is off at 1:30 a.m. ET. All the first-round tee times can be found here. Some of the interesting groups are: Who's in the field at the 2025 Women's British Open? It's a stacked tee sheet at Royal Portcawl in Wales with all 20 LPGA winners, including the winners of the first four LPGA majors in 2025, as well as 11 past champions ready to compete. All of the top 25 in the Rolex Rankings are there, including No. 1 Nelly Korda, No. 2 Jeeno Thitikul, No. 3 Lydia Ko, No. 4 Ruoning Yin and No. 5 Minjee Lee. What is the field, format for the 2025 Women's British Open? The field will be 144 players with the low 65 and ties after 36 holes advancing to the third and final rounds. The format is 72 holes of stroke play. What is the prize money for the 2025 Women's British Open? The total purse at the AIG is $9.75 million with the winner taking home $1.4625 million, a new high in the event's history. That first-place money compares to the $1.2 million Grace Kim won at the Amundi Evian Championship, the $1.8 million Minjee Lee won at the KPMG Women's PGA, the $2.4 million Maja Stark won at the U.S. Open and the $1.2 million that Mao Saigo won at the Chevron Championship.
Yahoo
15 hours ago
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- Yahoo
Nelly Korda celebrates 27th birthday by preparing to end victory drought at British Open
The final major of the LPGA season began with Nelly Korda's 27th birthday. The World No. 1 celebrated on Monday with her caddie, coach and a good friend who came to Wales from London. She also got her first glimpse of Royal Porthcawl. At this time last year, Korda had won six of her first 12 starts on the LPGA. In 2025, however, Korda has yet to win in her first dozen starts heading into the AIG Women's British Open – yet boasts a lower scoring average and better strokes gained total and strokes gained putting averages to this point last year, according to the tour's KPMG Performance Insights. While Korda dominated last season with seven wins, no player has won twice so far in 2025. This marks the first playing of the AIG at Royal Porthcawl, and Korda comes into the week after trying something new: playing the Scottish Open the week before. 'Typically with my body structure, I don't love to play two weeks in high winds because I start to sway a lot more,' said Korda, who finished fifth at Dundonald Links. 'Just something that I've noticed throughout the past couple years, but it just lined up perfectly with my schedule. For me, everything is about my schedule flowing.' Softer conditions at Dundonald led to more aggressive play, which won't be the case this week in Wales. Korda played the front nine at Royal Porthcawl on her birthday and chipped and putted around the back nine. She called the views on the first four holes breathtaking and said that with some wind, it will be a 'really, really hard test.' The forecast calls for gusts up to 25 mph on Thursday and 30 mph on Friday. 'I feel like it's maybe a little bit more demanding off the tee,' said Korda, 'as in maybe with other links courses, you can hit driver and there are some bunkers in the way, but here you definitely can't hit driver. It sometimes may be an iron off the tee, but then with the wind direction and the wind strength, there's just way too much trouble on the fairway. 'Once you're in one of those bunkers, like in all links golf courses, it's just a pitch-out.' Korda played alongside the hottest player in golf – Lottie Woad – for three rounds at the ISPS Handa Women's Scottish Open and called her achievements 'absolutely amazing.' In the month of July, Woad won the Irish Open as an amateur, finished tied for third at the Amundi Evian Championship to earn her tour card and then won in her pro debut in Scotland. 'I was very impressed with her composure, her process,' said Korda. 'I think, when it comes to her shot routine, especially under pressure and in the heat of the moment, sometimes people seem to fidget and kind of doubt themselves, but she stuck to it, she stuck to her process every single time, and I think that's one of the main things that I noticed is how mature she is for her age and how comfortable she was in the heat of the moment.' Korda noted earlier in her press conference that golf is a 'game of confidence,' and there's certainly no shortage of that right now with Woad. 'I've really been just enjoying myself,' said the humble Englishwoman who now ranks 24th in the world. 'Enjoyed being in these events and competing and being in contention, just try to have fun with it and not add too much stress really.' This week marks Korda's 10th appearance in the AIG. She has five top-15 finishes in nine starts, including a share of second last year at the Old Course. Her eight top-5 finishes in the majors – including two wins – since 2019 are the most on tour, with Minjee Lee coming in second with seven (and three wins). Korda was asked how important it is to her to be successful in an event like the British Open and establish herself as a global force. 'I feel like I don't really have anything more to prove to people ever,' said Korda. 'For me, it's just, I'm passionate about the game. I love the game. I love playing in these kind of conditions, testing my game, and getting to play against the best players in the world. "Having something to prove to myself, I don't think I really need to do that. For me, it's just enjoying it and being in the heat of the battle.' This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Nelly Korda turns 27, preps to end victory drought at Women's British
USA Today
15 hours ago
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- USA Today
AIG Women's British Open weather update 2025: There will be wind at Royal Porthcawl
The first AIG Women's British Open ever contested at Royal Porthcawl gets underway on Thursday and, as with any good links test, there's plenty of attention placed on the forecast. Light rain is expected on Thursday morning, with scattered showers continuing in the afternoon. The lightning threat is low, but the wind will be gusting up to 20 mph later in the day. There will be more sunshine on Friday and Saturday with "windy conditions persisting," according to the tournament's official weather report. There will be wind gusts up to 20 mph for the rest of the week, along with some rain on Sunday. "The views from the golf course are absolutely breathtaking," said No. 1-ranked Nelly Korda, "but you can definitely tell that, when the wind kind of picks up here, it's going to be a really, really hard test." Temperatures will reach 70 on Thursday but will remain in the 60s for the rest of the week, with a low of 55. "I think it's a fair test," said the LPGA's most recent major winner, Grace Kim. "This golf course, when the wind does pick up, you've got some really tough into-wind holes. I think I had three holes where I hit 3-wood just short of the green. But then you've got holes that blow downwind, and it's very gettable par-5s."
Yahoo
16 hours ago
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Phenom Lottie Woad wins first LPGA event in her pro debut at Women's Scottish Open
Majestic. Sublime. Extraordinary. Flawless. The television announcers were running out of adjectives for the phenom Lottie Woad. KPMG Performance Insights gave Woad a 40 percent chance of winning heading into the final round of the ISPS Handa Women's Scottish Open. Heady stuff for a 21-year-old making her professional debut. Woad's magical July run continued at Dundonald Links, where the newly-minted pro became only the fourth player in LPGA history to win in her first start as an LPGA member, joining former world No. 1 Jin Young Ko (2018) and Beverly Hanson (1951). "I don't really know how to describe it," said the humble Woad of her recent stretch of brilliance. "Just been shooting low scores, which is always nice." A Sunday 4-under 68 put Woad at 21 under for the tournament, capping off a maiden LPGA victory in her native U.K., with a three-stroke win over Hyo Joo Kim. Woad becomes the 20th different LPGA winner in a season in which no player has won twice. She heads next to the AIG Women's British Open in Wales, where she finished tied for 10th last year at St. Andrews. "It might have looked less stressful than maybe it was at times," said Woad, "but I think I only had like three bogeys, which, I mean, the wind wasn't too bad the first due days. But on links golf, it's definitely about bogey avoidance. That was probably the key to winning." Woad began the final round of the Scottish with a two-shot lead in Ayrshire and, midway through, found herself knotted with major champion Hyo Joo Kim at 19 under. World No. 1 Nelly Korda, still looking for her first win of the season, made an early run with four birdies in the first six holes. A string of short misses, however, stalled the American and dropped her out of the mix. Known for her elite wedge play, Woad knocked one close on the 13th to make birdie and regain the solo lead. Another birdie on the 14th as Kim dropped a shot on the 15th stretched the steady Englishwoman's lead back to two with four to play. Woad becomes the first player since Rose Zhang to win on the LPGA in her first start as a pro. Zhang held a two-shot lead going into the final round of the 2023 Mizuho Americas Open and won in a playoff against Jennifer Kupcho to earn her LPGA card. Woad, of course, recently became the first player to graduate from the tour's new LEAP program, earning her card for the rest of 2025 and 2026. Immediately after winning the Irish Open on the LET, she missed out on a playoff at the Amundi Evian Championship by one shot. Woad turned pro last week, forgoing her final season at Florida State. She also accepted membership on the LET, which makes her eligible for the 2026 Solheim Cup. In her last three professional starts, Woad is 55 under par with a 67.4 scoring average. She notched only three bogeys for the week in Scotland. Woad earns 500 CME points for her victory and is projected to move into the top 50 on the Race to CME. The top 60 at the end of the year get into the CME Group Tour Championship. She came into the week No. 62 in the Rolex Rankings and will move into the top 50 there as well. She also earns a two-year exemption on the LPGA, moving up to the winner's category on the LPGA's priority list (up from the LEAP Category 13 to Category 4), which she'll have through 2027. After forgoing several big paychecks in recent weeks, Woad takes earned $300,000 for her first pro win. She told Golfweek last week that she needed to buy a car in the U.S. Turns out she also needs to get a driver's license, too. Woad, known for her tireless work ethic at FSU, would often take an Uber to the school's practice facility at 7:30 a.m. on Saturdays. Former teammate Charlotte Heath once said that Woad outworked all the pros at the club. Woad broke through on a major stage for the first time at the 2024 Augusta National Women's Amateur, where she birdied three of the last four holes to overtake Bailey Shoemaker. When asked if she felt more nerves there or down the stretch at the Scottish, Woad said she felt more nervous at the ANWA. "I think Augusta, that was the biggest tournament I played in at the time and was kind of my big win," said Woad, who has since played in seven major championships. "So definitely felt the pressure of it more there, and I felt like all those experiences helped me with this." This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Women's Scottish Open 2025: Lottie Woad wins in pro debut on LPGA
