Much has been made of this year’s PGA Tour schedule, which featured a condensed run of major championships due to golf’s return to the Olympics.
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And on Monday, Ricoh followed suit, announcing the selection of its tiny Theta S as the official 360-degree camera of the Ricoh Women’s British Open as part of the company’s 360 View of Golf initiative.
“I usually play on the Duke’s and the Duchess’ Courses because they are very tight”.
World No. 1 Lydia Ko comes to Woburn this week as the odds on favorite and spoke to media on Tuesday ahead of the year’s fourth major.
“It’s been a learning process, but winning the Evian gave me a lot of confidence”, said Ko. It was really cool as an event perspective.
Lydia Ko visited France for a promotional event for her upcoming title defense in The Evian Championship. She is ranked number one in the world with 19 wins as a professional. England has hosted a total of 11 times.
For the first time we have a double up with the PGA Championship and Women’s British Open played at the same time.
A top 20 finisher when the wind howled and the rain poured at Turnberry in Scotland a year ago, the world No.4 played her first practice round in calm sunshine and surrounded by trees.
Park Inbee, the victor at Turnberry past year, has pulled out due to a thumb injury.
She is now just two weeks away from tying Annika Sorenstam on the all-time career weeks list at No one golfer on the planet.
If anyone is primed to grab her first major this week, it’s Ariya Jutanugarn. Jutanugarn has made all but one cut in 2016, a season highlighted by three straight victories in May.
In her freshman year she won the Annika award – named after women’s golfing icon Annika Sorenstam – as the best player in American Collegiate golf along with numerous tournament titles.
Former winners of this event in the field this week: Mo Martin, Stacy Lewis, Yani Tseng, Catriona Matthew, Jiyai Shin and Karrie Webb.
If that is to be the case then two young Irish amateurs, Leona Maguire and Olivia Mehaffey, who will tee it up alongside the elite of professional golf at the Ricoh British Open at Woburn may become the role models.
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She was the youngest player in Curtis Cup history at 15 (2010) and since then has helped the Britain & Ireland team to wins over the United States of America, the most recent coming at Dun Laoghaire Golf Club in June, where she contributed four points to the wining tally.
