{"id":614787,"date":"2026-06-01T06:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T06:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/614787\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T06:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T06:22:19","slug":"nelly-korda-lexi-thompson-lydia-ko-among-stars-at-lpga-team-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/614787\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelly Korda, Lexi Thompson, Lydia Ko among stars at LPGA team event"},"content":{"rendered":"

World No. 1 Nelly Korda<\/a> announced her return to the Dow Championship for the first time since 2022. Korda announced she’ll play with good friend Olivia Cowan, a winner on the Ladies European Tour who is ranked 178th, in the week following the U.S. Women’s Open.<\/p>\n

Korda last partnered with older sister Jessica in 2022, when they tied for eighth. Jessica announced earlier this year that she’s pregnant with her second child<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Other commitments include Lydia Ko and Danielle Kang as well as Lexi Thompson and Megan Khang, who finished second last year to Somi Lee and Jin Hee Im.<\/p>\n

\"Juli<\/p>\n

Juli Inkster of the United States lines up a putt on the 11th green during the second round of The Standard Portland Classic 2025 at Columbia Edgewater Country Club on August 15, 2025 in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n

LPGA Hall of Famer Juli Inkster will tee it up with Angel Yin, who considers the seven-time major winner a mentor. Inkster, 65, last teed it up on the LPGA at the 2025 Standard Portland Classic.<\/p>\n

The 2026 edition of the Dow will be held June 11-14 at Midland (Michigan) Country Club. It marks the beginning of a two-week Michigan swing, with the Meijer LPGA Classic in Grand Rapids the following week.<\/p>\n

Cydney Clanton and Jasmine Suwannapura won the inaugural Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational in 2019.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Here’s who No. 1 Nelly Korda will partner with at LPGA team event<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World No. 1 Nelly Korda announced her return to the Dow Championship for the first time since 2022.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[209231,209226,5904,209230,37576,154764,209228,20660,69258,209229,14246,209227,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-614787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-danielle-kang","tag-dow-championship","tag-golf","tag-jin-hee-im","tag-juli-inkster","tag-ladies-european-tour","tag-lexi-thompson","tag-lydia-ko","tag-megan-khang","tag-meijer-lpga-classic","tag-nelly-korda","tag-olivia-cowan","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}