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How to Watch the 2024 BMW Ladies Championship
Fans can watch on Golf Channel as the LPGA Tour returns to the Republic of Korea this week for the BMW Ladies Championship, held at Seowon Hills at Seowon Valley Country Club in Gyeonggi-do. Highlighting the field are defending champion Minjee Lee, who is joined by Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings No.2 Lilia Vu and No. 3 Lydia Ko. TV/STREAMING TIMES (All times EST) Wednesday, October 16: 11:00 p.m. – 3:00 a.m. (Golf Channel) Thursday, October 17: 11:00 p.m. – 3:00 a.m. (Golf Channel) Friday, October 18: 11:00 p.m. – 5:00 a.m. (Golf Channel) Saturday, October 19: 11:00 p.m. – 3:00 a.m. (Golf Channel) STREAMING ON Golf Channel, NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app All the news and tournament action surrounding the BMW Ladies Championship can be accessed at any time on any mobile device and online through the help of NBCSports.com, the NBC Sports app and Peacock. Story by Jennifer Meyer
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Field Breakdown: 2024 BMW Ladies Championship
The BMW Ladies Championship begins this week, with 78 of the world’s most talented players set to tackle the Seowon Hills Course at Seowon Valley Country Club in the Republic of Korea. Past champions Minjee Lee and Lydia Ko will tee it up, as will 17 of the 18 total winners this season, including 2024 major winners Ayaka Furue, Yuka Saso and Amy Yang. Eight of the top 10 in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings will also compete, a group that includes world No. 2 and five-time LPGA Tour winner Lilia Vu and last week’s Buick LPGA Shanghai champion Ruoning Yin. Take a look at who else is in the field this week at the BMW Ladies Championship: Past Champions (2):Minjee Lee (2023), Lydia Ko (2022) Story by LPGA Staff
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The Lynx stage historic comeback to steal Finals Game 1 in overtime
After trailing by as many as 18 points in the first half, the Minnesota Lynx stormed back to a 95-93 overtime win in Brooklyn on Thursday to steal Game 1 of the WNBA finals on the road. Minnesota's return from 18 points down ties the greatest comeback in WNBA history, ironically first set by the Liberty in Game 2 of the 1999 finals. The Liberty came out swinging early in front of a raucous Barclays Center crowd, scoring 32 points in the first quarter as the Lynx suddenly found themselves in danger of becoming overwhelmed. But Minnesota kept chipping away at the lead, reducing New York's advantage to single digits at halftime. Story by Claire Watkins
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Can Gauff and Sabalenka keep rolling? The Wuhan quarterfinals await
Friday’s quarterfinals at the Dongfeng Voyah · Wuhan Open feature a little of everything. For starters, four of the Top 5 seeds are through. It starts with No.1 seed Aryna Sabalenka, who is looking for her fourth title of the year -- and her third in her past four events. There’s the hot popcorn night match between No.3 Jasmine Paolini and No.5 Zheng Qinwen, while No.4 Coco Gauff is in action, plus an unexpected, unseeded meeting of Ekaterina Alexandrova and Wang Xinyu. Poland also has two survivors (none named Swiatek), two Magdas, as in Magda Linette and Magdalena Frech. Story by WTA
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Sei Young Kim Leads Packed Leaderboard After Day One at Buick LPGA Shanghai
12-time winner Sei Young Kim wasted no time making her presence known at Qizhong Garden Golf Club setting a pair of records, the 9-hole and 18-hole tournament scoring records. Kim shot a 28 on the back nine, beating the previous record of 30 set by defending champion Angel Yin in 2018 and last done by Madelene Sagstrom in 2023. Taking that momentum, Kim went on to set the new 18-hole scoring record, last done by Sagstrom in the fourth round of 2023 as well. “After turn the nine hole I'm kind of, oh, I shoot 8-under. I never play like that, so I was a little bit of nervous,” Kim said about what she was thinking when she realized how well she was playing. “I don't know. Then I try to calm down but after that my body reaction a little bit like tight, and then after couple holes I keep par and after bogey one hole, and I realize, okay, I just keep going what I did is front nine, and I able to knock three birdies and strong finish.” Story by LPGA Communications
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Leona Maguire’s Hard Work Pays Off in Buick LPGA Shanghai Debut
Leona Maguire has spent months working on her game and trying to be patient with the results. On Thursday at the Buick LPGA Shanghai, she continued to see the dividends of that extra effort as she recorded an opening round of 66 to sit just four strokes off the pace of first-round leader Sei Young Kim. “I've been doing a lot of work on my putting lately, so nice to see a few go in today,” Maguire said about her 6-under effort at Qizhong Garden Golf Club, where she had just 27 putts. “Gave myself a lot of chances, hit a lot of greens and putted really nice. The greens are a little bit unpredictable, but I felt like I put some really good strokes on it.” Story by Amy Rogers
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Lynx, Sun Gear Up for Win-or-Go-Home Battle in Tuesday’s WNBA Semifinals Game 5
After splitting their first four games, tonight's Game 5 semifinal will determine who will go on to face New York in the 2024 WNBA Finals: the Minnesota Lynx or the Connecticut Sun. The two teams' best-of-five series has been the tightest of the 2024 postseason thus far. Both claimed one road win and one at home, and even the series score sheet is wildly close, with the Lynx putting up 321 points across the four games and the Sun posting 315. Story by Dee Lab
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The Late Sub Podcast: Marta's Orlando Dream Comes True
In this week's episode of The Late Sub, host Claire Watkins gives a postmortem on this era of the Las Vegas Aces, before claiming the Liberty as WNBA championship frontrunners and prepping for Tuesday's Game 5 semifinal between the Lynx and the Sun. Then, she chats about Orlando’s incredible run to the 2024 NWSL Shield, the individual NWSL records primed to fall, and aimlessness further down the league table. Story by JWS Staff
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Lauren Stephenson Earns 2024 Epson Tour Player of the Year Honors
At the conclusion of the Guardian Championship in Prattville, Ala., Lauren Stephenson learned she would be returning to the LPGA Tour for the 2025 season. With her Tour card secured for the next year, Stephenson’s focus shifted to earning Epson Tour Player of the Year honors, which is awarded to the Epson Tour athlete who finishes first on the Official Points List at the end of the season. After a T8 finish at the Epson Tour Championship at Indian Wells, the South Carolina native achieved that goal, walking away from the season finale with her head held high. Story by Luke Otto
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