The 39th Women’s British Open gets underway at Trump Turnberry Resort on Thursday (local time).
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The story lines at the Women’s British Open this week are abundant and compelling, yet much of the pre-tournament chatter has focused on the owner of the course staging the event in this village in western Scotland rather than the players involved.
Trump is rarely out of the headlines lately because of comments he is making during his U.S. presidential campaign.
“It really distracts us from the great tournament that we have this week”, Wie said.
The proverbial “elephant in the room” arrives just in time to deflect interest from the actual start of this major championship, but it’s only right; among Donald Trump’s more gratuitous boasts of late is that he “saved” the LPGA when everyone else thought it was dead. Significant fallout has been limited to the PGA of America moving October’s Grand Slam of Golf from Trump’s golf course in Los Angeles. “I also played on Monday when it was a little bit windier so I’ve seen it in two different conditions so now I feel ready”.
When you’re the world No. 3 trying to prepare for an assault on a major championship, the last thing you want to be doing is boogling about in the dark with spare tyres on the M8. “That’s really my main goal”.
That raised the ire of Trump, who accused Whan of “lacking common decency” with his “rude comments” and provocatively offering for him to move the British Open to another venue despite “an absolutely binding contract”. “Without him, I wouldn’t be here”. He was responsible for getting his daughter into golf at age 7 and he will be cheering her on at Turnberry this week.
On the course, the top-ranked Park is looking to add the British Open to the three American-based majors she has already won, thus completing the career slam, and taking her overall haul of majors to seven.
The true Grand Slam would be winning the British Open, Park said.
She captured three victories on the LPGA Tour, with the most recent one at the the Women’s PGA Championship – her third win at that tournament in succession – seeing her reclaim the top spot in the world rankings.
Australian Karrie Webb – who is still a strong contender this week – won the Championship 13 years ago, and Hull is the other player in the field to have lifted a trophy at Turnberry.
“I have never played Turnberry before but I did caddy for a former boyfriend in the British Amateur here and I vowed then I would love to come back and play it. Walking the course on Tuesday was surreal”.
Ko, a South Korea-born New Zealander who is the world No. 2, played the Ladies Scottish Open last week to get accustomed to links and the wind and rain that are set to be a feature at Turnberry.
Lewis lost the first major of the year, the ANA Inspiration, in a playoff with Brittany Lincicome.
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Not renowned for her long hitting, Martin struck a superb 3-wood on the 72 hole that hit the pin and stopped six feet away, from where she converted for a timely eagle that would ultimately win the day.
