THE US WOMEN'S OPEN STARTS IN TEXAS TOMORROW

Defending champion, Jeongeun Lee6, joins the best female golfers in Texas for the final major of the 2020 season, The 75th US Women’s Open.

The 75th US Women’s Open will start tomorrow, Thursday, 8 December 2020, in Houston, Texas. The championship was supposed to be held in the first week in June until the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the LPGA Tour for more than five months. The best option for the event was to reschedule it two weeks before Christmas, making it the final major of the year.

Uniquely, due to daylight constraints, the first two rounds will be contested on two courses at the Champions Golf Club. The players will play one round on the Jackrabbit course and the Cypress Creek course on either Thursday or Friday. Once the cut is made at the end of Friday’s play, the final two rounds will be played on the Cypress Creek course.

The 156-player field includes players from 26 countries, nine former US Open Champions, 26 amateurs and seven Texas stars including the 2020 Scottish Ladies Open champion, former Houston resident, Stacy Lewis, and the winner of last week’s Volunteers of America Classic, Angela Stanford.

The field will also include the defending champion, Jeongeun Lee6, and world number one, Jin Young Ko, two members of a formidable 27-strong contingent of Korean competitors.

Europe's challenge is spearheaded by Denmark's Emily Pedersen, who shot up the World Rolex Rankings after she dominated the 2020 Ladies European Tour to become Europe's No. 1 golfer.

Another European to watch out for is the 2020 AIG Women's Open champion Sophia Popov from Germany.

The British favourites will be out in force too. Georgia Hall and Mel Reid, who have already won on the LPGA Tour this year, are joined by an in-form Charley Hull, who has had a run of four top-ten finishes, along with Solheim Cup star Bronte Law, Jodi Ewart Shadoff and Meghan MacLaren.

Two promising English amateurs Emily Toy and Lily May Humphreys, who were recently named in the GB&I squad for the 2021 Curtis Cup, will make their major debuts in Houston. Toy earned her place as the 2019 British Women’s Amateur Champion, while Humphreys is ranked 17th in the World Amateur Golf Rankings (WAGR), with the top 20 eligible.

The English duo will be joined by the Northern Ireland amateur, 23-year-old Olivia Mehaffey, who is also in the GB&I squad for the 2021 Curtis Cup and 18th in the WAGR standings.