The LPGA Tour returns to Georgia this week for the first time since 2006, with an event at Reynolds Lake Oconee that that was thrown together at seemingly the last minute. The tournament, which will be known as the LPGA Drive On Championship –Lake Oconee, will be played Thursday through Sunday on the recently renovated Great Waters course. The event will feature a purse of … [Read more...]
2020 LPGA Preview: Mariah Stackhouse Lone Remaining Georgia Native on Tour
The 2020 LPGA season began with two tournaments in Florida in January without two native Georgians who have been LPGA Tour members since the early 2010s. Valdosta’s Dori Carter, who played on the LPGA Tour from 2011-19, left the tour after competing in 14 events last season to become an assistant women’s golf coach at Louisville. Brunswick’s Katie Burnett was an LPGA Tour … [Read more...]
Atlanta Athletic Club to Host 2021 Women’s PGA Championship
After an absence of 15 years, the LPGA will return to Georgia in 2021 when the Atlanta Athletic Club will host the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, one of the tour’s majors. The LPGA last played a tournament in the state in 2006, when Eagle’s Landing in Stockbridge ended a 15-year run as the site of an annual LPGA event, sponsored by Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A from … [Read more...]
LPGA preview: Stackhouse Looks to Move Up After Solid Sophomore Season
For the first 55 or so years of the LPGA Tour, Georgia was a vital part of the tour’s history, both as the host of a number of tournaments as well being home to some of the top players in women’s professional golf. A tournament played at Sunset Hills in Carrollton was on the schedule of the first official LPGA Tour season in 1950, and Atlanta native Louise Suggs, one of the … [Read more...]