FRISCO, Texas – PGA PGA Championship fate for Maja Stark’s KPMG had long been set when the open women’s champion in the US, showed that she had had enough design Gil Hanse.
In the last vicinity of her last six round, Stark left Par-4 15 Green, raised her tightness over her head and destroyed her against her golf bag, sending Putterhead tie in the rough. Without breaking the step, Stark grabbed her head and knocked back on her cadad, not even bothering to see. She placed with a wedge for the last three holes and ended up in a tie for 47.
The perfect way to end a week that tried, irritated and violated the best of the LPGA.
If was the top 2023 PGA championship Ranch East fields in PGA Frisco’s The trial of the big championship dress this last week was his true debut, who saw Minjee Lee wins its third major title impressive. But despite her impressive victory, part of Lee’s week were in the shadows capturing the players and broadcasters for the course configuration and justice.
KPMG Ambassador Stacey Lewis told Beth Ann Nichols to Golfweek That the course did not set up fairly and insinuteted the goal should be for the players to look good. Sophia Popov lost cutting, taking on social media to say the course Players made to look “meaningless”. World no. 1 Nelly Korda was one of several players who described some holes as almost “impossible” to approach. On Saturday, while Winds Gust over 30 km per hour, many players describe the test as “brutal” and “crazy”.
At the time Lee had raised the trophy and the dust of Texas was being resolved, the average weekly mark was 75.6, the highest of any major LPGA since the opening of US women for 2013.
It was fast and strong, and the strange winds demanded that the players control their ball flight, hit the right yards and trajectories, and take their medicine when they did not.
While gloves and complaints absorbed a lot of oxygen this week, Fields Ranch East did what the big places have to do: allow the best players to be separated. He identified the best player on the field and made sure he had no doubt.
Heading to the last round of Saturday, only Lee and no. 2 Jeeno Thitikul were under par. How they attacked a hole during the four-day slogan pointed out why they lived above the manager’s table while others bombarded.
On Friday and Saturday, players and broadcasting showed the location of Pin and Downwind’s durability, the Eighth PAR-3 as a hole that was not “useful” good shots while the players fought to keep green, sending their eighth shooting bordering on a collection area. But in both days, Lee and Thiticul rose and hit the drilling iron shots that landed softly and kept the green, giving them a pleasant view of the birds. Thitikul made it both days. Lee made a bird and a par.
The rewards were there if you could withdraw the shooting, as they should be in a big championship. As Java ended, this was a feeling separated from those who understood the scene where they were lit and relieved by pushing on their border.
“When the course conditions are this challenging, it is much more fun,” World said on Sunday. 10 Angel Yin – who referred the course as “boring” on Thursday. “Bit is a bit sadistic to say it’s fun, but I like to finish a round and be like, there are many more we could have done better.
“Here if you make a mistake, results to like a big blow. You know, then it appears on the manager’s table. So I really like that aspect.”
Added great champion destroying Yin: “I like to play in difficult conditions. Just make you better and better. It is brutal but it’s fun.”
Leona Maguire noted that PGA Frisco played how they were expecting Erin Hills to play at Open Women Open, except they didn’t get the wind in Wisconsin.
“I think you just have to embrace it for the challenge it is. It will be difficult for everyone,” said Maguire, who ended up in a tie for 19, said Saturday. “It’s a major. It is assumed to be difficult.”
It is not surprising that Lee, the player who handled him best, called the “Hard” “super fun” test.
A week after the Oakmont Country Club punished the best men’s players in the US Open and saw JJ Spaun go out as the only player under par, PGA Frisco assured the same task required for LPGA stars.
like Andy Johnson of Fried Egg, professional -pavedHanse design asks players to take red line risks to set the desired shooting in the areas of greens you want to attack. If you play away from the risks and do not get to the thin line, the shots of your approach come to areas of the greens that repel the balls away. The approximate swallowed shots of cracks, but the innumerable roads were much wider than the narrow ones that often charm large championships.
In general, the great creation of the Hanse Championship was a brutal examination that required discipline, control and concentration. If you were missing any of the three, you punished and fell into the manager’s table. Allowed Lee, who Set up a clean golf show During Saturday’s Saturday conditions, to give up the package.
Big weeks is supposed to drain. The questions asked are intended to accurately a price. This is what makes their gain so useful.
PGA Frisco will have things to clean in front of the PGA 2027 championship. six-hour rounds that ruined the ladies They were a problem. It is a long, tough stroll for spectators that will be lighter in May than in the June heat. The course itself is not particularly pleasant for viewers looking at home. Some of them can be addressed, some of them cannot.
But if a big championship place has a job, it is to clearly identify and reward the player who best handles the correct test in front of them. With Lee raising the trophy, three clean shots from second place, PGA Frisco did it. It was, as defined, the great championship fair.
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