A marine layer, temperatures in the 50s, and some morning mist seemed like the perfect way to start the 78th U.S. Women’s Open Championship at Pebble Beach Golf Links. Why not greet the game’s best female players with some traditional Monterey Peninsula weather.
Such was the setting on the first Thursday of July for the first female major championship ever being contested on this iconic layout. And the course more than lived up to the billing.
Pine Valley Golf Club, in Pine Hill, N.J., will host the 2034 Curtis Cup Match, the United States Golf Association (USGA) announced today. The venerable golf club has previously hosted the 1936 and 1985 Walker Cup Matches.
“We are committed to bringing our championships to the finest golf courses in the country, and over the last several years, that commitment has only strengthened for our women’s championships,” said Mike Whan, CEO of the USGA. “That is why, on the eve of a monumental first U.S. Women’s Open at Pebble Beach, this is a fitting and historic announcement for the Curtis Cup and the USGA.”
The second U.S. Adaptive Open kicks off next week from Pinehurst No. 6. The course was designed by George and Tom Fazio and opened in 1979.
Redesigns and restorations were done by Tom Fazio in 2005 to carve new bunkers, soften angles and seed faster greens. The nines will be reversed for championship play.
Fans will be able to follow the U.S. Women’s Open Championship like never before thanks to a comprehensive suite of digital offerings that will immerse audiences in the action at renowned Pebble Beach (Calif.) Golf Links from July 6-9.
“We’re thrilled to provide fans with an unprecedented level of access to this year’s championship through a number of innovative digital offerings that are sure to bring golf fans closer than ever before to the action at Pebble Beach,” said Jon Podany, USGA chief commercial officer. “From live streams of championship play on our new app, to the first-of-its-kind ShotCast experience, golf fans across the world will be able to immerse themselves in the U.S. Women’s Open.”
From July 6-9 fans can expect:
USGA App Built by Deloitte
The USGA App Built by Deloitte* is an all-in-one destination for fans that offers features and innovations to bolster wall-to-wall content for the U.S. Women’s Open, such as real-time shot tracking, live streaming, highlight packages and customized alerts. In addition, every televised shot of the U.S. Women’s Open will be available on demand within each player’s scorecard. Fans can also add an unlimited number of players to their favorites and receive alerts when they start and finish their rounds and have completed nine holes. For the first time, the USGA App will feature live scoring and coverage of all 15 USGA championships through an elevated user experience that will provide a more engaging digital landscape in which fans can immerse themselves.
ShotCast Powered by Cisco
For the first time in women’s golf history, ShotCast powered by Cisco will allow fans to follow the U.S. Women’s Open like never before, with a next-generation digital experience featuring every shot from every player. The USGA will utilize the PGA Tour’s ShotLink state-of-the-art scoring technology to bring fans closer than ever to all of the action. The elevated experience will be available on both the app and the web and will include dynamic shot trails, radar data, green views and video highlights, so fans can follow everything up-to-the minute live or catch up on their favorite players after the round. Fans will be able to follow every shot with amazing 3D hole imagery. Whether keeping up with their favorite players on the go or getting more insights while watching the action, fans will enjoy detail and depth with each hole of the iconic layout.
Live Streaming on Any Device Presented by American Express
Up to 10 hours per day of featured groups coverage, presented by American Express, will be available for all four rounds of the championship on uswomensopen.com and on the USGA app for iOS and Android. Live streaming of featured groups will also be available on the free USGA OnDemand app on Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, and Android TV, with full leader board integration within the viewing experience. Additionally, Xbox and, for the first time, Samsung Smart TVs, will also have live streaming available on their platforms via USGA OnDemand.
Record Amount of Weekend NBC Coverage, Including Primetime
NBC Sports will present exclusive coverage of the U.S. Women’s Open from iconic Pebble Beach Golf Links across NBC, Peacock and USA Network. NBC Sports’ presentation will include a record 12 hours of coverage on the NBC broadcast network on Saturday and Sunday, including live primetime coverage for the first time in championship history.
Pre-championship coverage begins Tuesday, July 4, with Golf Central Live From the U.S. Women’s Open on Golf Channel and Peacock, surrounding the championship with more than 25 hours of live studio coverage.
NBC Sports will also complement U.S. Women’s Open coverage with live featured group coverage Thursday through Sunday.
Interactive ArtBall NFTs Transcend Traditional Boundaries
The USGA and Pebble Beach Company also announce the launch of the 2023 U.S. Women’s Open ArtBall – a gamified NFT project that leverages the rich data connected to the championship, allowing fans to engage in the championship like never before. NFT holders will be randomly assigned a plot on and around the par-3 17th hole at Pebble Beach. As they follow along on the 3D experience, they earn points if a ball lands on their designated plot, and can climb the leader board thanks to other gamified elements such as “closest-to-the-hole" and “longest hole-out.” Each ball will feature generative art as the data and location of each shot will generate art on the digital collectibles, making each a unique, one-of-a-kind takeaway from this historic championship by week’s end. The 2023 U.S. Women’s Open ArtBall will be limited to 3,010 unique collectibles. For more information, visit usga.artball.io.
The legendary Scioto Country Club in Columbus, Ohio is a cathedral of golf. It's hosted the most prestigious tournaments and competitions in the world. Scioto's distinctive course architecture evokes the Golden Age of early American golf. Luminaries of the game have competed and won here including the likes of Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, Sam Snead, Arnold Palmer, and Jack Nicklaus.
And on August 2nd, four of you will become a part of Scioto Country Club's storied 107 year history and leave your own footprints on this hallowed ground.
This is the 78th U.S. Women’s Open Championship and the fifth in the state of California.
The first U.S. Women’s Open, played at Spokane (Wash.) Country Club in 1946 and won by Patty Berg, was the only one conducted at match play. The Women’s Professional Golfers Association (WPGA) conducted three U.S. Women’s Opens, and in 1949, the newly formed Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) took over operation of the championship. The LPGA ran the Women’s Open for four years, but in 1953 asked the United States Golf Association (USGA) to conduct the championship, which it has done ever since.
The United States Golf Association (USGA) has announced tee times for the first two rounds of the 2023 U.S. Women’s Open Championship, Thursday (July 6) and Friday (July 7), at 6,509-yard, par-72 Pebble Beach (Calif.) Golf Links.
The U.S. Women’s Open is a 72-hole, stroke-play competition. A field of 156 players will play 18 holes of stroke play on July 6 and 7, after which the field will be reduced to the low 60 scores and ties. Those players making the cut will play 18 holes on July 8 and 9. If there is a tie upon the completion of 72 holes, a two-hole aggregate playoff will immediately follow. If this playoff results in a tie, the tied players will immediately continue to play off hole-by-hole until the winner is determined.
The United States Golf Association (USGA) today announced that three additional players have earned full exemptions into the 78th U.S. Women’s Open Championship, to be contested July 6-9 at Pebble Beach Golf Links, based on the current Women’s Rolex World Golf Rankings, bringing the number of fully exempt players to 89. Additionally, two alternates from qualifying were added to the field.
Akie Iwai, of Japan, who had qualified for the U.S. Women’s Open on May 29 in Japan, is now fully exempt based on her No. 50 ranking. This will be her first appearance in the championship. Now that Iwai is fully exempt, Chizuru Komiya, first alternate from the Japan qualifying site, has been added to the field and will also make her championship debut.
It was a Sunday for the ages for Bernhard Langer and his golf equipment sponsor Tour Edge at the 43rd U.S. Senior Open in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.
Their ageless staff player won for the 46th time on the PGA TOUR Champions, setting the record for all-time victories, picking up his 14th major championship trophy and breaking his own record as the oldest PGA TOUR winner at 65 years, 10 months and 5 days.
Rickie Fowler has undeniable momentum this season, and it was only a matter of time before the SoCal native captured the sixth PGA Tour victory of his decorated career. He got the job done on Sunday at the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit, firing four spectacular rounds in the sixties for a -24 total, forcing a playoff where he was able to edge out Collin Morikawa and Adam Hadwin to earn the highly anticipated win.
“Rickie has been with us since the beginning.” said Dan Ladd, President, COBRA PUMA GOLF, “He’s adored by golf fans around the world and loved by everyone at Cobra Puma Golf. We’re thrilled with his comeback story and win at The Rocket Mortgage Classic. We’re all very proud of not only the way he plays but how he conducts himself. He’s a class act and true role model in the sports world.”
Make more room in the record books for Bernhard Langer.
Not only did the 65-year-old German become the oldest champion – by eight years – in the U.S. Senior Open on Sunday at SentryWorld, heh surpassed five-time USGA champ Hale Irwin as the winningest player in PGA Tour Champions history with 46 titles.
Could the USGA, SentryWorld, NBC and Wisconsin golf fans ask for a better leader board going into Sunday’s final round of the 43rd U.S. Senior Open?
Your 54-hole leader, 65-year-old Bernhard Langer, is a two-time Masters champion looking to become the oldest winner of the championship by eight years. The owner of 45 PGA Tour Champions titles, including 12 senior majors, carded a second consecutive, 3-under-par 68 in Saturday’s third round for a three-day total of 6-under 207.
The winner of a just-launched sweepstakes from Reynolds Lake Oconee will earn a dream all-inclusive getaway to the world-renowned Georgia community for four people for three days. The grand prize features championship golf, including one round with a PGA Tour professional; clay shooting with an Olympic shooter; a memorable culinary experience with a world class chef; and tickets to a popular live music and beer festival.
The entry period for Reynolds Lake Oconee’s “Three for Four Sweepstakes” opens June 29 and closes at 11:59 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Sept. 28. One grand prize winner will be randomly selected from all eligible entries and announced shortly after the sweepstakes’ closing. No purchase is necessary.
The great irony of golf thriving globally post-pandemic is that many of the most desirable golf resorts and courses are sold out this year. Fortunately for them, Dundonald Links has teamed up with some of the world’s best, most revered courses to offer the “Ultimate Ayrshire Golf Package.”
Starting at £3,000, the package includes accommodations for eight (single occupancy rooms) in Dundonald Links’ new luxury lodges with private putting green. It also includes three scrumptious dinners at the acclaimed Canny Crow Restaurant in the award-winning clubhouse, a BBQ dinner catered at the private lodge setting, a Bunnahabhain Whisky Tasting, transfer to and from the golf venues and the international airport in Glasgow (code: GLA), and 18-hole rounds at historic and/or world Top 100 courses. (Additional, same-day rounds may be purchased independent of the package at a value rate.)
LIV Golf announced its new social impact and sustainability strategy “Potential, Unleashed.” This new initiative reflects LIV Golf’s commitment to enable and inspire a better tomorrow through the game of golf. Potential, Unleashed includes a variety of programs – LIV to Learn, LIV Green, Transform the Game, and the Way We LIV – that demonstrate a holistic and transformational strategy for social impact.
“LIV Golf has added value and injected major new excitement to the global game of golf we all love, but we don’t want to stop there,” said Greg Norman, LIV Golf Commissioner and CEO. “We believe golf has incredible potential to create significant positive social and environmental change, potential that LIV is focused on unlocking. ‘Potential, Unleashed’ reflects our big ambitions and ideas to address the challenges facing our society and our planet. Our vision is a bold one, but we are committed to working in collaboration with our fans, teams, players and partners to give back to our communities and our planet and use the game of golf that we love to bring positive change.”
To create a new paradigm for golfers, Callaway has reimagined how a driver is built from the ground up. This is a complete shift in performance, with a design that radically breaks the tradeoff between incredible distance and exceptional forgiveness.
The Paradym Shift Construction features an industry-first 360 Carbon Chassis that eliminates titanium from the body, so we can push weight and stability to the limit. All this performance is now featured in a sleeker, darker limited edition clubhead profile.
Bernhard Langer will tell anyone that age is just a number. The birth certificate might say he’s 65, but the German doesn’t look or play like someone headed for a comfortable retirement recliner.
Certainly not after the World Golf Hall of Famer carded a 3-under 68 on Friday at SentryWorld to take a one-shot lead over first-round leader Rod Pampling, of Australia, into the weekend of the 43rd U.S. Senior Open Championship. Langer, who opened with a 71, sits at 139 through 36 holes.
The 78th U.S. Women's Open kicks off next week from Pebble Beach Golf Links.
The course will be set up at 6,509 yards and will play to a par of 36-36–72. The yardage for each round of the championship will vary due to course setup and conditions.
PUMA Golf disrupts sport culture by fusing golf and basketball at The Rocket Mortgage Classic this week in Detroit. The launch features a green turf basketball court complete with baskets, where fans will be able to shoot some hoops while watching the PGA Tour event.
The brand took over Area 313 on the course at Detroit Golf Club by building a basketball court on Hole 17. PUMA athletes Rickie Fowler, Justin Suh, Jason Dufner, and NBA Slam Dunk Contest Winner Mac McClung, kicked off the week by playing a game of knockout on the court.
As PXG continues to serve golfers in the greater Atlanta area, the company is also determined to put its extensive product research and development background and its unabashed love of the game to work for the community. Recently, PXG partnered with STEM Atlanta Women to provide local students with a new perspective on golf through the lens of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) and sports.
PXG hosted "The Science of Golf" experience at PXG Atlanta in Buckhead, Georgia. The immersive program featured four interactive experiments developed and led by PXG Engineers and Master Fitters. Activities ranged from solving coefficient of restitution (COR) equations and determining putting angles to calculating smash factor and crushing drives in PXG's golf simulators.
