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San Francisco Chronicle
26-06-2025
- Sport
- San Francisco Chronicle
Today in Sports - Roger Federer wins his record 42nd straight grass-court match
June 27 1890 — Canadian boxer George Dixon becomes first black world champion when he stops English bantamweight champion Edwin 'Nunc' Wallace in 18 rounds in London, England. 1903 — Willie Anderson captures the U.S. Open with a two-stroke victory over David Brown in a playoff. 1914 — Jack Johnson wins a 20-round referee's decision over Frank Moran at the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris. 1924 — Walter Hagen wins his second British Open. Hagen finishes with a 301 to edge Ernest Whitcombe by one stroke at Royal Liverpool Golf Club at Hoylake, England. Hagen, who won in 1922, was the Open's first winner born in the United States. 1936 — Alf Padgham beats Jimmy Adams by one stroke to win the British Open at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, England. 1950 — Chandler Harper wins the PGA championship by beating Henry Williams Jr., 4 and 3 in the final round. 1959 — Mickey Wright beats Louise Suggs by two strokes for her second straight U.S. Women's Open title. 1979 — Heavyweight Muhammad Ali confirms that his 3rd retirement is final (it isn't). 1984 — UEFA European Championship Final, Parc des Princes, Paris, France: Michel Platini & Bruno Bellone score as France beats Spain, 2-0. 1988 — Mike Tyson KOs Michael Spink in 91 seconds, in Atlantic City. 1990 — NBA Draft: Syracuse power forward Derrick Coleman first pick by New Jersey Nets. 1992 — Top-seeded Jim Courier, the Australian and French Open champion, loses 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 to qualifier Andrei Olhovskiy of Russia at Wimbledon. It's the first time in Wimbledon history that a qualifier beat the top seed. 1998 — NHL Draft: Rimouski Oceanic (QMJHL) center Vincent Lecavalier first pick by Tampa Bay Lightning. 1999 — Juli Inkster shoots a 6-under 65 to win the LPGA Championship, becoming the second woman to win the modern career Grand Slam. Pat Bradley won her Grand Slam 13 years earlier. 2001 — NBA Draft: Glynn Academy center Kwame Brown first pick by Washington Wizards. 2006 — Roger Federer wins his record 42nd straight grass-court match, beating Richard Gasquet 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 to open his bid for a fourth consecutive Wimbledon championship. Federer breaks the record he shared with Bjorn Borg, the five-time Wimbledon champion who won 41 straight matches on grass from 1976-1981. 2008 — Zheng Jie completes the biggest victory of her career at Wimbledon, beating new No. 1 Ana Ivanovic 6-1, 6-4 in the third round. The 133rd-ranked Zheng's victory, her first against a top-10 player, is the earliest exit by a top-ranked woman at Wimbledon since Martina Hingis lost in the first round in 2001. 2010 — Cristie Kerr cruises to a 12-stroke victory in the LPGA Championship in one of the most lopsided wins at a major. Kerr leads wire-to-wire, closing with a 6-under 66 for a 19-under 269 total. Kerr breaks the tournament record for victory margin of 11 set by Betsy King in 1992 and matches the second-biggest victory in a major. 2013 — NBA Draft: UNLV power forward Anthony Bennett first pick Cleveland Cavaliers. 2017 — Florida scores four runs in the eighth inning to pull away from LSU, and the Gators beat their Southeastern Conference rival 6-1 to complete a two-game sweep in the College World Series finals for their first national title in baseball. LSU loses for the first time in seven appearances in a championship game. 2021 — Nelly Korda beats Lizette Salas by 3 strokes to win the Women's PGA Championship. The win is Korda's first major title. _____
USA Today
17-06-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
First 10 winners of the KPMG Women's PGA is a who's who list of LPGA stars
First 10 winners of the KPMG Women's PGA is a who's who list of LPGA stars It's been 10 years since the KPMG Women's PGA overhauled an LPGA major that had lost its way. The LPGA Championship debuted in 1955 and had a number of title sponsors over the years, most notably McDonald's from 1994 to 2009. When the PGA of America and KPMG took over the championship a decade ago, the LPGA's name may have dropped from the title but a stronger chapter emerged. A glance down the list of winners over the past 10 years is as impressive as the storied venues. There are no one-hit wonders. In fact, half of the champions have won multiple majors and all 10 claim at least four LPGA titles. The 11th KPMG Women's PGA kicks off this week in Texas at Fields Ranch East at PGA Frisco. It's the second LPGA major of the year in the Lone Star State. Inbee Park won the first KPMG Women's PGA in 2015 at Westchester Country Club, giving her three consecutive titles at three different courses. The 2014 Wegmans LPGA Championship was held at Monroe Golf Club and the 2013 event was held at Locust Hill Country Club. "I can't believe that I just did it," said Park after winning at Westchester without a single bogey over the course of 54 holes. Park joined Annika Sorenstam (2003-05) as the only player in the event's history to win three straight. Brooke Henderson won the second KPMG in a playoff over Lydia Ko, who was No. 1 at the time. Henderson became the first Canadian to win an LPGA major in almost 50 years. The KPMG marked her second LPGA title. She's gone on to win 13, including two majors. For 2020 and 2024 champions Sei Young Kim and Amy Yang, their KPMG victories marked the end of a long wait. Kim was the winningest player on tour (11 titles) without a major when she won at Aronimink Golf Club during an October major. Yang won last year's edition at Sahalee in her 75th major championship start. Atlanta Athletic Club is where Nelly Korda broke through with her first major title in 2021. The victory vaulted her to No. 1 in the world for the first time, the first American to do so since Stacy Lewis in 2014. Danielle Kang and Hannah Green, now both six-time winner on the LPGA, are the only players in the last decade to make the KPMG their first LPGA title in 2019. The Aussie Green edged the 2018 KPMG champion, Sung-Hyun Park by a stroke with her idol, Karrie Webb watching outside the ropes. Together, the first 10 champions of the KPMG Women's PGA have averaged 8.7 LPGA titles over the course of their careers. In other words, some of the most decorated players on tour in the last decade have won it. There have been no repeat winners. Here's a complete list of the first 10 KPMG Women's PGA winners:
USA Today
10-06-2025
- Business
- USA Today
KPMG Women's PGA: Ten years later, a look back on the rebirth of an LPGA major
KPMG Women's PGA: Ten years later, a look back on the rebirth of an LPGA major Somehow, there was room for only one more name on the LPGA Championship trophy when Inbee Park won in 2014. Former LPGA commissioner Mike Whan joked that they could just start adding check marks beside Park's name as she won three in a row, but it was only fitting that the trophy receive a new base, as everything about the LPGA's flagship major was about to get an overhaul, including the name. The 2025 KPMG Women's PGA Championship in Frisco, Texas, marks 10 years since the championship's rebirth. Not everyone was happy to see the LPGA's name drop from the championship's title in 2015, but no one can say that it wasn't the right move. 'It's gotta feel like a major,' said Stacy Lewis of what she hoped for the first KPMG Women's PGA in 2015. 'It's just got a certain feel about it ... we can feel it; fans can feel it.' Venues helped remake the KPMG Women's PGA From the start, the KPMG Women's PGA nailed the major championship aura. From historic courses, to the buildout, to the courtesy cars and network TV, what was once a floundering major suddenly compelled the rest to get better, too. The venues – Westchester Country Club, Hazeltine National, Atlanta Athletic Club and Baltusrol Golf Club, to name a few – brought the name recognition and gravitas that were missing from so many of the LPGA's big events. The KPMG Women's PGA purse has increased nearly 400 percent in the last decade to $10.8 million. Last year, 99 of the top 100 players in the current Race to CME Globe Rankings competed at Sahalee Country Club, where Amy Yang finally broke through in her 75th major championship start. Yang will be one of 14 past champions in the field next week at Fields Ranch East at PGA Frisco June 19-22, joined by the likes of Nelly Korda, Ruoning Yin, Hannah Green and In Gee Chun. This marks the first women's major ever held at Fields Ranch, a 660-acre campus that includes two 18-hole courses. The event is already slated to return to Frisco in 2031. 'The course is playing tough but still fair,' Yang told the media during a recent visit. 'I think it's going to test all aspects of your game.' KPMG Women's PGA brings commitment to LPGA For a tour that has been around since 1950, there's precious little history on the LPGA, which is why the PGA of America's commitment to host a women's major meant so much to a league that, at times, has held as few as two majors per season. When former PGA of America CEO Pete Bevacqua talked about the organization's commitment to the LPGA, he went far beyond the typical three- to five-year window, calling it a 50-year or 100-year decision. 'This is something that is going to change the tour,' Lewis predicted. 'It's going to change women's golf.' KPMG's initial involvement with the LPGA traces back to Lewis, who wore the logo and impressed John Veihmeyer, the auditing firm's then-global chair, in how she interacted with female leaders at sponsorship outings. Analytics helped to improve KPMG Women's PGA As the tournament took off, KPMG looked for other ways to improve the tour, thrusting its analytics expertise behind the creation of the KPMG Performance Insights technology platform. Last year, KPMG CHAMPCAST was added, giving fans the same ShotLink Pro technology used by the PGA Tour. (The U.S. Women's Open also uses a version of ShotLink.) The Performance Insights also utilize AI-powered predictive analytics for use in the broadcast and across digital channels. KPMG's success, however, hasn't been limited to what's happening inside the ropes. Tournaments up and down the LPGA schedule rushed to form their own version of the inspiring Women's Leadership Summit. A decade ago, KPMG first called on the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies to send women they believed would be next-generation C-suite leaders. Hundreds of women gathered on the eve of the inaugural KPMG Women's PGA in Rye, New York, to listen to some of the most successful and influential leaders in business, politics, sports and media, including former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the event's keynote speaker. At one point during the inaugural summit, Donna Orender, former president of the WNBA and a member of the Summit's advisory council, stood up and asked a panel of athletes how the women in the room could support them. Lewis didn't hesitate. 'Go out and tell the world how good we are,' she said. Ten years later, it's a message and mission that hasn't changed.
San Francisco Chronicle
07-06-2025
- Sport
- San Francisco Chronicle
Today in Sports - Serena Williams wins her 16th Grand Slam title by winning the French Open
June 8 1935 — Omaha, ridden by Willis Saunders, becomes the third horse to win the Triple Crown by capturing the Belmont Stakes with a 1½-length victory over Firethron. 1950 — Boston beats the St. Louis Browns 29-4 at Fenway Park, and the Red Sox set six major league records: most runs scored by one team; most long hits in a game with 17 (nine doubles, one triple and seven homers); most total bases with 60; most extra bases on long hits with 32; most runs for two games with 49 (20 a day earlier); and most hits in two games with 51. 1958 — Mickey Wright beats Fay Crocker by six strokes to win the LPGA Championship. 1980 — Sally Little wins the LPGA Championship by three strokes over Jane Blalock. 1982 — 36th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Philadelphia 76ers, 4 games to 2. 1985 — Creme Fraiche, ridden by Eddie Maple, becomes the first gelding to win the Belmont Stakes, beating Stephan's Odyssey by a half-length. 1986 — Larry Bird scores 29 points to lead the Boston Celtics to a 114-97 victory over the Houston Rockets and their 16th NBA title. 1990 — The 'Indomitable Lions' of Cameroon pull off one of the greatest upsets in soccer history, 1-0 over defending champion Argentina in the first game of the World Cup. 1991 — Warren Schutte, a UNLV sophomore from South Africa, shoots a 5-under 67 to become the first foreign-born player to win the NCAA Division I golf championship. 2000 — Mike Modano deflects Brett Hull's shot at 6:21 of the third overtime, ending the longest scoreless overtime game in Stanley Cup finals history and helping the Dallas Stars beat the New Jersey Devils 1-0 in Game 5. 2002 — British-Canadian Lennox Lewis retains boxing's WBC Heavyweight title with eighth-round knockout of American Mike Tyson. 2005 — Freshman Samantha Findlay hits a three-run homer in the 10th inning to lead Michigan to a 4-1 win over UCLA for its first NCAA softball title. Michigan is the first team from east of the Mississippi River to win the national championship. 2008 — Rafael Nadal wins his fourth consecutive French Open title in a rout, again spoiling Roger Federer's bid to complete a career Grand Slam. Dominating the world's No. 1 player with astounding ease, Nadal wins in three sets, 6-1, 6-3, 6-0. 2008 — Yani Tseng of Taiwan becomes the first rookie in 10 years to win a major, beating Maria Hjorth on the fourth hole of a playoff with a 5-foot birdie on the 18th hole to win the LPGA Championship. 2012 — I'll Have Another's bid for the first Triple Crown in 34 years ends shockingly in the barn and not on the racetrack when the colt is scratched the day before the Belmont Stakes and retires from racing with a swollen tendon. 2013 — Serena Williams wins her 16th Grand Slam title and her first French Open championship since 2002, beating Maria Sharapova 6-4, 6-4. 2014 — Rafael Nadal wins the French Open title for the ninth time, and the fifth time in a row, by beating Novak Djokovic 3-6, 7-5, 6-2, 6-4. Nadal improves his record at Roland Garros to 66-1. 2015 — The NCAA approves multiple rule changes to men's basketball for the 2015-16 season, including a 30-second shot clock and fewer timeouts for each team. The shot clock was last reduced, from 45 to 35 seconds, in 1993-94. 2018 — Golden State romps to its second straight NBA championship, beating Cleveland 108-85 to finish a four-game sweep. Stephen Curry scores 37 points and Kevin Durant, who is named MVP for the second straight finals, has 20 for the Warriors. It's the first sweep in the NBA Finals since 2007, when James was dismissed by a powerful San Antonio team in his first one. 2019 — Ashleigh Barty, Australia, wins the French Open by defeating Marketa Vondrousoca. The win is Barty's first Grand Slam singles title.
Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Monday Leaderboard: Wild finish includes playoffs, slow play, rules questions, a whiff and a near-drowning
Welcome to the Monday Leaderboard, where we run down the weekend's top stories in the wonderful world of golf. Grab an Arnold Palmer, pull up a chair and behold one of the wildest finishes to a major in years… At the first major of the LPGA season, the Chevron Championship saw the Masters' wild playoff finish … and raised it. No, there wasn't a Rory McIlroy-esque legacy-defining win, but the 72nd hole and the one-hole playoff featured stunning shots, maddening slow play, heartbreak misfires, rules controversies … what else do you need? It was seriously one of the strangest finishes to a tournament, much less a major, that's unfurled in quite some time. Start with Ariya Jutanugarn, who probably could have wrapped up the tournament on the 18th with a par. But her tee shot went wide, and she opted to fire at the grandstands as, basically, a handy (and controversial) backstop. But her third shot did not go as planned … Scenes on the 72nd hole. Ariya Jutanugarn struggles on her final hole and finishes with bogey to join the clubhouse leaders at now on NBC. — LPGA (@LPGA) April 27, 2025 The whiff meant she got in with a bogey to fall into a tie with Hyo Joo Kim at seven-under. Soon afterward, Ruoning Yin got up-and-down with a birdie to finish at seven-under. In the final grouping of the day, Haeran Ryu took an extraordinarily long time to play an approach and determine a drop. And then she just went and buried the chip from the drop zone: Haeran Ryu what?! 🤯From the drop circle to the bottom of the cup in a matter of seconds — LPGA (@LPGA) April 27, 2025 But her playing partners, Lindy Duncan and Mao Saigo, both managed to get up and down to finish at seven-under and elbow into the playoff themselves. Somehow, a playoff field of five lasted only one hole, as Saigo was the only one to birdie the 18th and claim the victory. Oh, and just when you thought the day couldn't get any stranger … Saigo nearly drowned on the Chevron's traditional leap into the pond: Mao and her team stayed in the water longer than most! — Beth Ann Nichols (@GolfweekNichols) April 27, 2025 'I'm not really a good swimmer,' Saigo said through an interpreter. 'When I went inside, it was deep and at first, I thought I was going to drown.' After a few stressful moments — the pond is 10 feet deep in some places — Saigo was pulled from the water. What a tournament. Last week, Andrew Novak barely missed out on his first PGA Tour victory, losing to Justin Thomas at the RBC Heritage. He got his chance for redemption just seven days later at the Zurich Classic team-play event, and this time, alongside Ben Griffin, he held on for the victory. It marked the first win on Tour for either Novak or Griffin. The two won in their 100th and 90th PGA Tour starts, respectively, carding a combined 28-under in the alternating shot/best ball event. Twins Nicolai and Rasmus Højgaard finished one stroke off the lead. Joaquin Niemann continues his reign of terror in LIV Golf, claiming the tour's Mexico event over the weekend to further solidify his hold on the points lead. Niemann began the tournament's final day three strokes behind Bryson DeChambeau and two behind Cam Smith, but held strong as those two major winners faltered to win by three strokes. The victory entitles him to an invitation to the U.S. Open, per the USGA's new LIV-friendly rules. It will now be up to Niemann to back up all his lobbying for major spots; he has never finished in the top 10 in a major. Niemann isn't necessarily the face of LIV Golf — DeChambeau and Jon Rahm hold that honor — but Niemann needs to prove that success on the LIV tour can translate to success on more prestigious larger-field, cut-line events. He'll get his next chance at a major in two weeks at Quail Hollow. Sixty-year-old Stephen Ames — who once had the unfortunate distinction of talking trash about Tiger Woods and then getting beaten 9-and-8 by Woods in a 2006 match play event — had a fine afternoon at the Mitsubishi Electric Classic over the weekend, carding an albatross on the 18th at TPC Sugarloaf. He finished the tournament in solo 8th place, and pocketed roughly an extra $15,000 for this shot: ALBATROSS FOR AMES!!The defending champion ends his week with the rarest shot in golf 🔥@StephenAmesPGA | @MEClassicGolf — PGA TOUR Champions (@ChampionsTour) April 27, 2025 Chandler Phillips risked dignity, a mud bath and a gator attack on Saturday for this brilliant escape from the muck at TPC Louisiana. Magnificent farmer's tan here, too. beware of the gators @chandlerphilli6 — PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) April 26, 2025 Phillips and playing partner Jacob Bridgeman would go on to finish T10 at the Zurich, and solo first for style. Coming up next: PGA Tour: The CJ Cup Byron Nelson (TPC Craig Ranch, Texas); LPGA: Black Desert Championship (Ivins, Utah); PGA Tour Champions: Insperity Invitational (The Woodlands, Texas) LIV: LIV Golf Korea (Incheon, South Korea).
