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It took longer than many who watched her play amateur golfer thought it would, and probably longer than she thought it would, but Sophia Popov is an LPGA winner. And not just an LPGA winner, but a major championship winner. Popov won the 2020 Women’s British Open on August 23 with a strong closing round […]

Annabell Fuller is the England Women’s Amateur Stroke Play champion for the year 2020, a feat she pulled off at Burnham and Berrow Golf Club in the tournament that concluded on August 20. Fuller, who is 18 years old, entered the tournament with a World Amateur Golf Ranking of 51 and a European Golf Ranking […]

Atthaya Thitikul is only 17 years old as this is written, and has been a pro golfer for less than a year. Yet, it seems like she’s been around on the international golf scene for a while now. That’s because she has been, for several years. But on July 24, 2020, the golfer who is […]

With the LPGA Tour on hold due to the COVID-19 outbreak, tour members, especially those early in their careers, are looking elsewhere for competition. For 24-year-old Sarah Burnham, that meant entering the 2020 Michigan PGA Women’s Open. Good decision: She dominated. Burnham finished with a tournament-record score of 18-under 198 to win by a whopping […]

Playing as an amateur, Gabi Ruffels earned her first win in a pro tournament on June 26, 2020. Ruffels won the Cactus Tour tournament played at Legacy Golf Club in Henderson, Nevada, by two strokes over fellow amateur Briana Chacon. Ruffels, a 20-year-old from Australia who is a senior at Southern Cal, started the final […]

It’s been a weird 2020 in golf — and the world in general — as the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted golf tours and tournaments around the world. In Europe, as in America, the top women’s golf tours all halted play. But as the Ladies European Tour hoped to begin play again later in the year, many […]

One of the LPGA’s brightest young players, Kristen Gillman, has earned her first win as a professional golfer. With the pandemic-interrupted 2020 season, however, it wasn’t on the LPGA Tour — it was on the WAPT Tour. Gillman won the Hurricane Classic, played in Anna, Texas, which concluded on June 12, 2020. The WAPT (for […]

Hyun Kyung Park is not only a first-time winner on the Korean LPGA Tour (KLPGA), but she made that first victory a (Korean) major championship. Park, 22 years old, won the 2020 Korean LPGA Championship, which concluded May 17 and is counted as one of the KLPGA’s own majors. It was a return to golf […]

Sixteen-year-old Amari Avery is an amateur, but she’s now a winner in a pro golf tournament. Avery claimed a trophy on the Cactus Tour, winning the March 2-4 tournament on the Champions Course at Morongo Golf Club in Beaumont, Calif. Call it a home win for Amari, who is from nearby Riverside, Calif. Avery started […]

Julia Engstrom is in her third season as a member of the Ladies European Tour … and she’s still only 18 years old. Now, she has her first LET win. After victory in the Women’s New South Wales Open in Australia, Engstrom said on Instagram: „A day I will remember for the rest of my […]