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USA Today
4 hours ago
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- USA Today
Lexi Thompson holds clubhouse lead at KPMG Women's PGA, where the wind is whipping in Texas
FRISCO, Texas – In what must feel like another lifetime, Allie White roomed with Lexi Thompson at an AJGA team event, and they said hello to each other on the range Friday morning at the 2025 KPMG Women's PGA Championship. As White finished up her round on the par-5 ninth, Thompson was closing out hers nearby on the 18th. 'Don't blame the bogey on me,' White joked while sitting with Judy Rankin and Grant Boone on Peacock's Featured Group coverage. While White has moved on from tour life, Thompson is now semi-retired and contending at another LPGA major. Thompson's lone bogey of the day came on the difficult par-4 18th, denying her first bogey-free major championship round in three years. Even so, 2-under 70 on the Fields Ranch East course puts her in fine position as the course bakes out even more in the afternoon. Thompson, who's 2-under for the tournament, might even hold the lead at day's end as winds gust up to 30 mph with temperatures north of 90. 'It's a difficult golf course, so it's a matter of just really trusting your lines and knowing that the wind is going to bring it back,' said Thompson, who is making her seventh start of the season. 'And just being happy with pars. This is a good par golf course.' White, 35, made her second consecutive KPMG Women's PGA appearance after back-to-back victories at the LPGA Professionals Championship in 2023 and 2024. A second-round 80 won't have the Lancaster Golf Club (Ohio) director of golf playing the weekend, but she was all smiles in the booth after the round as she talked about her experience. Thompson's group was warned and then put on the clock for several holes in the second round. On Thursday, her group waited more than 25 minutes on the tee down the stretch in a round that took six hours. 'We fell maybe a hole behind,' said Thompson of Friday's round. 'I didn't think that we were playing – I mean, we were playing slow. It took three hours to play the front nine. But it's a difficult golf course. Pins are tough, and some holes are just really par holes that you can't really hold greens on too, and some holes you have to pitch out. 'So it's difficult golf course to play quickly, safe to say.' Auston Kim also bogeyed her last hole, the par-5 ninth, but still finished with a 72 to sit at 1 under for the championship. Like Thompson, Kim said the turnaround from the late finish on Thursday was especially tough. She got to bed around 10 p.m., and her alarm went off at 4:30 a.m. 'I think just not getting enough sleep unfortunately, and then the heat, waking up super early and dealing with twice as much wind and firmer greens and longer rough was just a really big challenge today,' said the former Vanderbilt standout. Kim planned to get a cold shower and a cold plunge after the round to bring down her body temperature, followed by a nap. 'I think I'll be a little bit later tomorrow so that will definitely help,' said Kim. 'Just trying to be horizontal for as long as I possibly can.' Yealimi Noh began the day two shots back but bogeyed three of her last five holes to shoot 74 and fall to even par for the championship.
Washington Post
a day ago
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- Washington Post
Tiger Woods' son Charlie qualifies for US Junior Amateur
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — The 16-year-old son of Tiger Woods is heading back to the U.S. Junior Amateur . Charlie Woods bogeyed his final hole Thursday to fall into a three-way playoff for the final spot out of Eagle Trace Golf Club. Woods, who shot 71, won the playoff. That sends him to the U.S. Junior for the second straight year. Next up is 36-hole qualifying in stroke play for 264 players, with the top 64 advancing to match play. The U.S. Junior Amateur, which Tiger Woods won three straight times, is July 21-26 at Trinity Forest in Dallas. The course briefly hosted the Byron Classic on the PGA Tour. Charlie Woods last year qualified for the U.S. Junior Amateur but had rounds of 82-80 and didn't come close to reaching match play. Charlie Woods, a junior at Benjamin School, recently won his first significant American Junior Golf Association title . ___ AP golf:
Yahoo
a day ago
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- Yahoo
Tiger Woods' son Charlie qualifies for US Junior Amateur
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — The 16-year-old son of Tiger Woods is heading back to the U.S. Junior Amateur. Charlie Woods bogeyed his final hole Thursday to fall into a three-way playoff for the final spot out of Eagle Trace Golf Club. Woods, who shot 71, won the playoff. Advertisement That sends him to the U.S. Junior for the second straight year. Next up is 36-hole qualifying in stroke play for 264 players, with the top 64 advancing to match play. The U.S. Junior Amateur, which Tiger Woods won three straight times, is July 21-26 at Trinity Forest in Dallas. The course briefly hosted the Byron Classic on the PGA Tour. Charlie Woods last year qualified for the U.S. Junior Amateur but had rounds of 82-80 and didn't come close to reaching match play. Charlie Woods, a junior at Benjamin School, recently won his first significant American Junior Golf Association title. ___ AP golf: The Associated Press
Associated Press
a day ago
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- Associated Press
Tiger Woods' son Charlie qualifies for US Junior Amateur
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — The 16-year-old son of Tiger Woods is heading back to the U.S. Junior Amateur. Charlie Woods bogeyed his final hole Thursday to fall into a three-way playoff for the final spot out of Eagle Trace Golf Club. Woods, who shot 71, won the playoff. That sends him to the U.S. Junior for the second straight year. Next up is 36-hole qualifying in stroke play for 264 players, with the top 64 advancing to match play. The U.S. Junior Amateur, which Tiger Woods won three straight times, is July 21-26 at Trinity Forest in Dallas. The course briefly hosted the Byron Classic on the PGA Tour. Charlie Woods last year qualified for the U.S. Junior Amateur but had rounds of 82-80 and didn't come close to reaching match play. Charlie Woods, a junior at Benjamin School, recently won his first significant American Junior Golf Association title. ___ AP golf:
NBC Sports
a day ago
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- NBC Sports
Charlie Woods wins playoff to qualify for second straight U.S. Junior Amateur
Charlie Woods is headed to another USGA championship. Woods, 16, qualified for his second straight U.S. Junior Amateur on Thursday, winning a 3-for-1 playoff at Eagle Trace Golf Club in Coral Springs, Florida, for the last of five qualifying spots. Woods shot 1-under 71, closing in bogey-birdie-bogey, along with Oscar Crowe and Matthew Marigliano before winning the playoff. Medalist Arth Sinha also qualified, as did Lucas Gimenez, Sohan Patel and Wylie Inman. The U.S. Junior will be contested July 21-26 at Trinity Forest Golf Club in Dallas. Last year, Woods medaled in his U.S. Junior qualifier before shooting 22-over 162 at Oakland Hills to tie for 240th in the 264-player field and miss the match-play cut in his USGA debut. Woods, a rising junior at the Benjamin School in Palm Beach, Florida, has skyrocketed in the AJGA rankings. He's No. 17, fourth in the Class of 2027, boosted greatly by his first AJGA invitational victory last month at the Team TaylorMade Invitational at Streamsong Resort's Black Course. He's also tied for 10th in the U.S. Junior Ryder Cup standings. The six boys on the team, which will compete in the days prior to the Ryder Cup at Bethpage, will consist of the U.S. Junior winner, the Junior PGA winner and runner-up, the top two players in points and a captain's pick. As of June 15, Woods could began officially communicating with college coaches. He's expected to have plenty of interest from Power-4 schools.
