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PGA Tour star Scottie Scheffler, who won his second green jacket at the Masters last week, isn't the only world No. 1 golfer dominating a professional tour right now. Nelly Korda, No. 1 in the Rolex Women's World Golf Ranking, has won in four consecutive starts on the LPGA Tour, becoming the first golfer since Lorena Ochoa in 2008 to accomplish the feat. Korda is the first American golfer since Kathy Whitworth in 1969 to capture victories in four of her first five LPGA starts in a season.

A golfer who is bidding to become the first transgender woman to earn a Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) tour card has sparked outrage online. Hailey Davidson, 29, had a strong finish in the first two rounds of the first stage of the LPGA and Epson Tour Qualifying School in Palm Springs this week. But after DailyMail.com and other outlets reported on her efforts Friday, many questioned whether Davidson's inclusion was fair. That is because athletes who undergo male puberty before transitioning are widely-believed to retain strength advantages - including how far they can hit a golf ball. The mother...

SiriusXM PGA Tour host Mark Lye made inappropriate comments about the WNBA on the air Saturday and was fired by the end of the weekend. “You know the LPGA Tour, to me, is a completely different tour than it was 10 years ago,” Lye said Saturday on PGA Tour Radio. “You couldn’t pay me to watch. You really couldn’t, because I couldn’t relate at all. It’s kind of like, if you were a basketball player, and I’m not trashing anybody, please don’t take it the wrong way. “I saw some highlights of ladies’ basketball. Man. Is there a gun in...

Hailey Davidson is hoping her next stop is the LPGA after her mini-tour win at Providence Golf Club last week, although she is awaiting word on her eligiblity. According to Beth Ann Nichols of Golfweek, the transgender woman underwent gender confirmation surgery in January and had been undergoing hormone treatments since 2015. "We are currently reviewing Hailey’s application to participate in LPGA Tour events under the LPGA’s gender policy," LPGA Chief Tour Operations Officer Heather Daly-Donofrio said. "The policy is designed to be a private and confidential process between the LPGA and the athlete." Davidson is allowed to compete in...

WHERE WAS RUSH LIMBAUGH on Good Friday 2019? Palm Beach, Florida at Mar-a-Lago golfing with The 45th President Of The United States Of America...

The biggest star of the US Women’s Open golf championship held at the Trump National Golf Club on Friday was not a female golfer. The President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, arrived to his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., just as the number 3 ranked player in the world, Lexi Thompson, who has played with the president in Florida, was set to take a shot, the New York Times reported. *snip* But it had to be tough to not pay attention when the crowd erupted in cheers, screams, and chants of “make America great again” and “Mr. President.”...

About a dozen people protesting the U.S. Women’s Open being played at a course President Donald Trump owns left peacefully Saturday after security officials asked them to leave the front entrance of the LPGA Tour’s Bank of Hope Founders Cup. Members of the group UltraViolet protested for less than 30 minutes before they were asked to leave the JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa. A plane flew over the course later with a banner reading “LPGA: TAKE A MULLIGAN. DUMP SEXIST TRUMP.” The U.S. Golf Association-run U.S. Women’s Open is July 13-16 at Trump National Golf Club in...

Where does Rachel Maddow’s feminist solidarity end? When a woman has the audacity to support a Republican . . . On MSNBC, commenting on tonight’s RNC, Maddow twice mocked speaker Natalie Gulbis, a professional golfer, for her current modest world ranking of about 500. In doing so, Maddow ignored the fact that Gulbis is a former #6 on the LPGA money list, has won four professional tournaments and at one point placed in the top 10 in four consecutive major championships. If Tiger Woods spoke for Trump, I suppose Maddow would dismiss him as “the 628th golfer in the world”...

hough other companies and organizations are cutting ties with Donald Trump following his inflammatory comments about Mexican immigrants, the golf world is continuing to do business with the Republican presidential candidate. NBC, Univision and Macy's have cut ties with the real estate mogul following his comments, but the PGA of America, the LPGA, the USGA and the PGA Tour will go forward with their previously scheduled plans to host tournaments on his courses.

PINEHURST, N.C. -- The road Michelle Wie took to a U.S. Women's Open title was unlike any other, and suddenly insignificant. Whether this was a long time coming was the least of her cares. The biggest star in women's golf had her name on the biggest trophy.She never looked happier."Oh my God, I can't even think straight," Wie said Sunday after a two-shot victory over Stacy Lewis to claim her first major.---------snip------- The final three holes at Pinehurst No. 2 were filled with ups and downs that Wie knows as well as anyone in golf. She responded with a performance...

PINEHURST - While her caddie finished scribbling notes before she could tee off on Pinehurst No.2's 15th hole Tuesday during a practice round, Lucy Li plopped down in the shade next to the tee box. Li could have been any 11-year-old then, sitting cross-legged in the shade with her polkadot skirt, sequined-sleeved top and pigtails. But when she stood up and drilled a tee shot 150 yards to stick the ball on the par-3 hole's green, it was obvious that Li is no ordinary tween. The Red Shores, California, native is the youngest U.S. Open Women's qualifier in history, shooting...

LPGA players voted Tuesday to allow transgender women golfers the opportunity to play on the tour. In a league meeting prior to this week's LPGA Tour Championship, a motion was voted on to amend the LPGA's constitution by removing the "female at birth" requirement, LPGA commissioner Michael Whan said.

So here's a problem that the golf world in the time of Arnold Palmer and Babe Zaharias didn't have to deal with ... at least, not as far as we know. A transgender golfer is challenging the LPGA's "female at birth" rule, claiming that it unfairly infringes upon her civil rights...

A former male SWAT team member filed a lawsuit in California against the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) after the now transgender woman was denied in her efforts to join the women's golf tour, her lawyer said Wednesday. Lana Lawless, the 2008 Women's Long Drive Association (LDA) champion...

NEW YORK, (AP) -- A transgender woman is suing the LPGA over a requirement which states all competitors must be "female at birth." The New York Times is reporting Wednesday that Lana Lawless, a 57-year-old who underwent gender reassignment surgery in 2005, filed a lawsuit . . .

The doctor who found the body of 25-year-old professional golfer Erica Blasberg told Nevada investigators he hid a suicide note and pills because he wanted to spare her family embarrassment, according to a court document released Wednesday. A Henderson police affidavit detailed the hours Blasberg and Dr. Thomas Hess spent together playing golf, watching TV in a casino sports book and in her home in the days before he found her dead May 9 with a plastic bag over her head.

The revelations that once seemed to come daily have now largely stopped. No more mistresses have stepped forward, and no more apologies are necessary. Nine months after the secret world of Tiger Woods was laid bare, even the tabloids and celebrity websites seem to have lost interest. The only real questions left are how much his wife will get in a divorce and when she will get it.

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Cristie Kerr widens lead heading into final round By Craig Potter, staff writer Messenger PostPosted Jun 26, 2010 @ 02:39 PM Last update Jun 26, 2010 @ 05:07 PM Pittsford, N.Y. —   Cristie Kerr continued her bid to be the first American to win the LPGA Championship since Juli Inkster in 2000 as the native from Miami, FL., continued to top the leaderboard after Round 3 on Saturday at Locust Hill Country Club. Kerr battled through the elements to shoot a 3-under-par 69 for a 54-hole total 203. Her 8-stroke lead after 54 holes is the largest ever in...

LPGA golfer Erica Blasberg found dead in Henderson homeUpdated: May 11, 2010 4:54 AM EDT Henderson, NV (KTNV) -- LPGA golfer Erica Blasberg was found dead in her Anthem neighborhood home over the weekend. Her body was discovered after she failed to leave for a tour Saturday morning as scheduled. "This is devastating. I mean you don't want to have to bury a 25 year-old daughter. It's sad," says Mel Blasberg, Erica's father. Before joining the LPGA, Erica was a standout golfer at the University of Arizona. She was named Golfweek's 2003 Player of the Year after finishing the season...