World No 1 Nelly Korda has been handed a star-studded grouping with back-to-back main winner Haeran Ryu for the primary two rounds of the AIG Girls’s Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes.
Korda received the Chevron Championship and US Girls’s Open earlier than Ryu claimed the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship and the Amundi Evian Championship, the primary time in historical past that two gamers have secured a number of majors in a season.
Both may turn out to be the primary participant since Inbee Park in 2013 to win three majors in a calendar yr, with Ryu – chasing a 3rd consecutive main – out at 8.42am alongside Korda and 2024 champion Lydia Ko.
Lottie Woad can be in early motion as she bids to turn out to be the primary Englishwoman to win a serious since Georgia Corridor in 2018, additionally at this venue, with the world No 5 grouped alongside Aki Iwai and American Andrea Lee.
Each marquee threeballs shall be a part of Featured Group protection on Thursday, with protection reside on Sky Sports activities Golf from 9am, whereas defending champion Miyu Yamashita is on the alternative facet of the draw.
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Yamashita is bidding to turn out to be the primary back-to-back winner of a ladies’s main since Yani Tseng, with the Japanese star beginning at 1.15pm alongside world No 2 Jeeno Thitikul and Lauren Coughlin.
Charley Hull can be on the late-early half of the draw, as she appears to be like to construct on two runner-up finishes within the final three years at this occasion, with the Englishwoman partnering Hannah Inexperienced and Brooke Henderson.
Charley Hull is a five-time runner-up in majors however nonetheless chases a maiden victory
England’s Alice Hewson will hit the opening tee shot at 6.30am on Thursday, with a one-tee begin in operation for the 144-woman subject. The event can be the ultimate qualifying occasion for European gamers attempting to function within the Solheim Cup.
Crew Europe will function the highest two gamers within the European Solheim Cup Crew factors standings and the following six accessible gamers within the Rolex Girls’s World Golf Rankings not already eligible, with Anna Nordqvist then naming 4 captain’s picks reside on Sky Sports activities Information on Monday.
AIG Girls’s Open: Thursday’s notable R1 tee occasions
0703 Anna Nordqvist (Swe), Cassie Porter (Aus), Sayaka Takahashi (Jpn)
0809 Sei Younger Kim (Kor), Rio Takeda (Jpn), Yuna Araki (Jpn)
0820 Hyojoo Kim (Kor), Minjee Lee (Aus), Mao Saigo (Jpn)
0831 Lottie Woad (Eng), Aki Iwai (Jpn), Andrea Lee (USA)
0842 Lydia Ko (Nzl), Nelly Korda, Haeran Ryu (Kor)
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Highlights from the ultimate spherical of the US Girls’s Open, the place Nelly Korda claimed her second main win of the season
1315 Miyu Yamashita (Jpn), Jeeno Thitikul (Tha), Lauren Coughlin (USA)
1326 Charley Hull (Eng), Hannah Inexperienced (Aus), Brooke Henderson (Can)
1342 Maja Stark (Swe), Jinhee Im (Kor), Allisen Corpuz
When is the AIG Girls’s Open on Sky Sports activities?
Sky Sports activities stays the unique house of the AIG Girls’s Open within the UK and Eire, with Featured Teams protection accessible for the primary time and 6 hours extra of reside motion on Sky Sports activities than ever earlier than.
Featured Teams protection begins at 9am on Thursday and Friday on Sky Sports activities Golf, forward of full protection getting beneath means at 1pm, with reside protection of rounds three and 4 then starting at noon over the weekend.
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