It’s fair to say that women’s golf is looking for its Caitlin Clark. The former Iowa Hawkeyes star helped attract an audience of 20m people to women’s college basketball recently.
Clark, who was drafted into the WNBA by the Indiana Fever, is one of the greatest college players in history having beaten Steph Curry’s record for most three-pointers in a single season. She is spearheading a growth in women’s basketball as arguably the greatest college player in history – so is that something women’s golf can witness?
The first women’s Major of the year takes place this week at the Chevron Championship, where World No.1, one-time Major winner and Olympic Gold medallist Nelly Korda looks to win her fifth title in a row.
However, the Chevron is up against a $20m PGA Tour signature event with the RBC Heritage and Korda admitted that women’s golf “needs a stage” and “we need to be put on TV”, admitting that the LPGA being on tape delay “hurts our game.”
The Chevron will be on TV this week, with Golf Channel and Peacock showing two separate windows each day and featured group coverage all day on ESPN+. It will inevitably be competing up against the RBC Heritage, though, featuring almost every single one of the PGA Tour’s best players, which certainly isn’t ideal for a women’s Major.
Nelly Korda has won her last four tournaments
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“I think that it just depends on the opportunities that are brought to you. If you’re playing good golf and you’re competing well and people see how much love you have for the game or how much work you put in day in and day out, I think everything comes with results,” Korda said on whether she can see a return of female golfers on the front page of the New York Times, as seen in 1978 when Nancy Lopez won five in a row.
“If you don’t have results you’re not going to get opportunities. At the end of the day, everything is about results.
“Listen, I feel like for me, the way that I promote the game is just the way I am. I’m very true to myself. I’m never going to do something I’m not really comfortable with. Obviously I love seeing all the kids and I love promoting the game.
“I mean, there is nothing more that I enjoy more. I’m always going to stay true to myself, and hopefully that way do I promote the game.”
Korda was then asked the…
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