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Yahoo
24-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Hull cards lowest second round at PGA Championship
Charley Hull has two career wins on the LPGA Tour [Getty Images] Women's PGA Championship first-round leaderboard: -6 J Thitikul (Tha); -3 M Lee (Aus), R Takeda (Jpn); -2 L Thompson (US); -1 C Iwai (Jpn), A Kim (US), S Lee (Kor) Selected others: +2 N Korda (US), L Maguire (Ire); +3 C Hull (Eng); +4 L Ko (NZ) Advertisement Leaderboard England's Charley Hull carded the lowest second-round score at the Women's PGA Championship as Thailand's Jeeno Thitikul extended her lead at the top of the leaderboard. Hull carded a three-under-par 69, which included four birdies and a bogey, in the only round under 70 on a day when only 14 players broke par in hot and windy conditions at the Fields Ranch East course in Texas. The 29-year-old shot 78 in her opening round and is on three over for the tournament, with leader Thitikul on six under. World number two Thitikul has yet to win a major but put herself in a promising position after a two-under par round of 70, which included four birdies and two bogeys. Advertisement Thitikul said the "wind and the rough" provided the toughest challenges during the second round. She added: "I had better tee shots than yesterday and put myself in the positions that I have a chance. "If not, I just tried to make par. I think par, it's a really big key here - no birdies but 18 pars, you take it." Thitikul's nearest challengers are Japan's Rio Takeda, who shot a 71, and Australian Minjee Lee, who went round in 72, with both players on three under par. American Lexi Thompson is on two under following a 70. "[It] got pretty windy even for the morning," said Thompson. "It was blowing more than it did yesterday, so I knew I just had to commit to my lines out there. Advertisement "It's a tough golf course, especially when the wind blows. If you miss the fairways you just have to take your medicine, pitch out, and try to save par any way you can, make the worst score a bogey." World number one Nelly Korda could only manage a 74, which included two birdies and four bogeys, and the American is on two over par, while Ireland's Leona Maguire is on the same score after also carding a 74. South Korea's Amy Yang won the tournament last year but, after rounds of 76 and 77, missed the cut on nine over par.
Washington Post
22-06-2025
- Sport
- Washington Post
Minjee Lee wins the KPMG Women's PGA Championship for her 3rd major title
FRISCO, Texas — Minjee Lee closed with a 2-over 74 but never gave up the lead Sunday in the final round of the KPMG Women's PGA Championship to win her third major title. While Lee had three bogeys in a four-hole stretch on the front nine, she had started the day with a four-stroke lead over Jeeno Thitikul. And the world's No. 2-ranked player, also in that final group, bogeyed both par 5s that are among the first three holes on Fields Ranch East at PGA Frisco.
News.com.au
22-06-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
Minjee Lee takes out the Women's PGA Championship and collects $2.8 million
Minjee Lee is a major champion for a third time after taking out the Women's PGA in Texas and collecting the equal biggest payday in history to reassert herself as a force and move into rarefied air in Australian sport. Starting the final round at Fields Ranch East just outside Dallas, where the Australian star has made her US base, Lee toughed out the scorching and windy conditions, riding out some significant early bumps on a rollercoaster final day. As temperatures hit 35C, Lee led by as many as five shots, and as few as two after three front nine bogeys, before a steely performance across her final six holes secured an emphatic three-shot win, despite a two-over par closing round of 74, to finish on four-under and collect the $2.8m winner's cheque. Such was the brutal nature of the four days in Texas, Lee was one of only three players in the entire field to finish under par. Lee, 29, became just the fourth Australian golfer to win three or more majors, joining Karrie Webb (seven), Peter Thomson (5) and Jan Stephenson (3) in an elite category. She added the PGA to the US Open she won in 2022, and the Evian Championship in 2021 and now has three legs of the women's major grand slam among 13 worldwide wins in an elite career. Webb was on hand in Texas to see Lee's win and the new PGA champion said her Aussie mentor was 'always supporting me regardless of where I am in the world'. Pretty insane that Min Woo Lee is the second best golfer in his family. His sister Minjee has a FIVE shot lead at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. — Fore Play (@ForePlayPod) June 22, 2025 The win also ended a 19-month winless drought for the former world No.2, the longest of her decorated career, a run which moved her to make significant changes going in to 2025. Lee changed her club supplier and also moved to a broomstick putter to address the issues which also cost her victory in last year's US Open, the win in Texas helping bury those Demons having lost a three-shot lead in the final round. But it wasn't without drama. Lee surrendered the monster lead she had at Fields Ranch, this time on the front nine, with three bogeys in her opening six holes. This time the chasers didn't come as hard though, and Lee, who came from three shots behind herself in the third round to take control, navigated her shaky star to recover with a birdie on her ninth hole. With the wind whipping the flat, treeless, baked layout, Lee was managing her mental state as much as he game. She was still in control of the leaderboard, and despite another bogey to start the back nine, with her lead reduced to two shots, she got that shot back with a birdie on 14 and another on 15 to lead by four shots, giving her herself a significant cushion going in to the final stretch of tough holes. A nervous bogey on the 16th after missing the fairway dropped her lead to three shots with two to play, but both her nearest challengers were already in the clubhouse. But having vowed to use the experience she gained in her two previous major wins, Lee stuck her tee shot on the par 3 17th to the middle of the green, walked off with par and down the tough 18th hole with a three shot lead. Lee laced her drive down the final hole, nailed her seven-iron approach before two putts delivered one last par and another trophy. The win will also send Lee back up the rankings, having slipped outside the world's top 20 for the first time since 2015 amid her winless run. FINAL LEADERBOARD 4-under Minjee Lee 1- under Auston Kim, Chanettee Wannasaen 7 - Karrie Webb 5 - Peter Thomson 3 - Minjee Lee, Jan Stephenson
Yahoo
21-06-2025
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- Yahoo
Hull cards lowest second round at PGA Championship
Charley Hull has two career wins on the LPGA Tour [Getty Images] Women's PGA Championship first-round leaderboard: -6 J Thitikul (Tha); -3 M Lee (Aus), R Takeda (Jpn); -2 L Thompson (US); -1 C Iwai (Jpn), A Kim (US), S Lee (Kor) Selected others: +2 N Korda (US), L Maguire (Ire); +3 C Hull (Eng); +4 L Ko (NZ) Advertisement Leaderboard England's Charley Hull carded the lowest second-round score at the Women's PGA Championship as Thailand's Jeeno Thitikul extended her lead at the top of the leaderboard. Hull carded a three-under-par 69, which included four birdies and a bogey, in the only round under 70 on a day when only 14 players broke par in hot and windy conditions at the Fields Ranch East course in Texas. The 29-year-old shot 78 in her opening round and is on three over for the tournament, with leader Thitikul on six under. World number two Thitikul has yet to win a major but put herself in a promising position after a two-under par round of 70, which included four birdies and two bogeys. Advertisement Thitikul said the "wind and the rough" provided the toughest challenges during the second round. She added: "I had better tee shots than yesterday and put myself in the positions that I have a chance. "If not, I just tried to make par. I think par, it's a really big key here - no birdies but 18 pars, you take it." Thitikul's nearest challengers are Japan's Rio Takeda, who shot a 71, and Australian Minjee Lee, who went round in 72, with both players on three under par. American Lexi Thompson is on two under following a 70. "[It] got pretty windy even for the morning," said Thompson. "It was blowing more than it did yesterday, so I knew I just had to commit to my lines out there. Advertisement "It's a tough golf course, especially when the wind blows. If you miss the fairways you just have to take your medicine, pitch out, and try to save par any way you can, make the worst score a bogey." World number one Nelly Korda could only manage a 74, which included two birdies and four bogeys, and the American is on two over par, while Ireland's Leona Maguire is on the same score after also carding a 74. South Korea's Amy Yang won the tournament last year but, after rounds of 76 and 77, missed the cut on nine over par.
BBC News
21-06-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Hull cards lowest second round at PGA Championship
Women's PGA Championship first-round leaderboard:-6 J Thitikul (Tha); -3 M Lee (Aus), R Takeda (Jpn); -2 L Thompson (US); -1 C Iwai (Jpn), A Kim (US), S Lee (Kor)Selected others: +2 N Korda (US), L Maguire (Ire); +3 C Hull (Eng); +4 L Ko (NZ)Leaderboard England's Charley Hull carded the lowest second-round score at the Women's PGA Championship as Thailand's Jeeno Thitikul extended her lead at the top of the carded a three-under-par 69, which included four birdies and a bogey, in the only round under 70 on a day when only 14 players broke par in hot and windy conditions at the Fields Ranch East course in 29-year-old shot 78 in her opening round and is on three over for the tournament, with leader Thitikul on six number two Thitikul has yet to win a major but put herself in a promising position after a two-under par round of 70, which included four birdies and two said the "wind and the rough" provided the toughest challenges during the second round. She added: "I had better tee shots than yesterday and put myself in the positions that I have a chance."If not, I just tried to make par. I think par, it's a really big key here - no birdies but 18 pars, you take it."Thitikul's nearest challengers are Japan's Rio Takeda, who shot a 71, and Australian Minjee Lee, who went round in 72, with both players on three under par. American Lexi Thompson is on two under following a 70."[It] got pretty windy even for the morning," said Thompson. "It was blowing more than it did yesterday, so I knew I just had to commit to my lines out there."It's a tough golf course, especially when the wind blows. If you miss the fairways you just have to take your medicine, pitch out, and try to save par any way you can, make the worst score a bogey."World number one Nelly Korda could only manage a 74, which included two birdies and four bogeys, and the American is on two over par, while Ireland's Leona Maguire is on the same score after also carding a Korea's Amy Yang won the tournament last year but, after rounds of 76 and 77, missed the cut on nine over par.
