LPGA Golf News

Four years ago, I thought they were going to be the next big thing in the sports world.

Before everyone who has been calling for the head of LPGA commissioner Carolyn Bivens gets too excited by the report that Bivens' departure is a done deal and will be announced after the U.S. Women's Open, stop and ask a question.

BETHLEHEM, Pa. Marina Alex took a slow, steady beating in her debut at the U.S. Women's Open, but the 18-year-old amateur from Wayne never stopped fighting.

Golf prodigy Alexis Thompson on Friday served notice she might be coming of age as the 14-year-old American amateur shot a second-round 73 to join the title chase at the U.S. Women's Open.

Two members of the LPGA wing of the World Golf Hall of Fame harshly criticized a group of current players Wednesday for their efforts to oust commissioner Carolyn Bivens.

Eunjung Yi collected her first LPGA Tour win on Sunday and soared 98 places to No.

"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.