Juli Inkster played its last full season in Lpga In 2021, but its latest 31 LPGA career victories returned in 2006. So when Inster, who is 65, appeared to play in the LPGA standard, Portland Classic earlier this week-like an opening of American elderly in San Diego next week you could not have any youngest players in the field. played along a hall of fame.
Or at least WHAT The Hall of the Fame.
“Most of them think I am Joanne Carner,” Inkster said with a laugh on Friday afternoon.
Joanne CarnerAs in the 86-year-old LPGA legend who won 43 times and, in 2004, became 64 years old, the oldest player to make a LPGA cut, in Chevron championship.
However, sure to say, those young people will not again confuse the inkster identity.
That’s because Insther shot a two-two on Friday, which was paired with its opening 69 transferred it to one under the tour and-for a while, however-in the position of cutting the number. If you read closely the fourth paragraph of this story, you already know that it would make the oldest player instick to make a cut in the LPGA history, an achievement it could add to a glittering resume that includes three straight Amateur of US women Wins, seven key titles, nine appearances on the US team Solheim Cup as a player and three others as captain.
Inspirational items, right?
Um… not so fast.
“It was not very inspiring,” Instore said after her round, a Giants lid San Francisco pulled down over her forehead. This is the thing for the brilliant ones: they seek perfection of themselves, and despite the fact that dozens of players have prevailed in half of her age, inkster was still less than satisfied with her driving and “liquid” game in the par-5s.
“It wasn’t one of my best days,” she said.
Thursday was better. In the first round, every part of the inkster game was working and she made four birds against a single trick. Inkster said she was anxious to enter the event and nervous when she went to the first peak. But playing with two players she knew – Stacy Lewis And Hannah Green – helped in the ease of institly. “I just want to see young kids swinging,” she said. “So impressive.”
While seeing a 65-year-old, continue with players flying their 50 yard or more past drives. In 2022, the last year the LPGA tracked the inkster statistics, on average 218.75 yards away. For the context, 32 players in the 2025 season are on average 270 or longer.
So would it be one under quite well?
When Insther signed its card on Friday, it seemed like it could be. The projected cutting (Top 65 and links) at that point was minus 1. But the predictions are only those-a better assumption-and as the afternoon wave players began to sign for their second round results, the inkster name began to slide down the wrong path below the board. By the end of the day, 13 players had gone down to two under the week, pushing inkster and the other seven players in one under a tie for 67, an agonizing blow less than the number.
