We're in the Thick of Major Season Now

Indeed, it appears as though there's a primary each week, on a few tour, for the next couple of months. This week, it is the USA Women's Open. Ariya Jutanugarn is the defending champion.

This year's venue is the Country Club of Charleston SC, a Seth Raynor layout. While Raynor won't be a acquainted call for plenty fans, his paintings possibly is -- he designed the Old White TPC Course at the Greenbrier Resort, in which the PGA Tour plays. If you pass by means of this LPGA web page, the course will play as a par-seventy two, a bit over 6700 yards. But different USGA pages I checked suggest that the Country Club will play as a par-seventy one path, a bit over 6550 yards.

Why the distinction? The Country Club is normally a par-71 from all tees. If the LPGA web page is accurate, they may be the use of the everyday blue tee yardage and bumping the par up to seventy two. The different pages quote the standard white tee yardage and par. Tony Jesselli's preview is listing the LPGA's figures. Either manner, it'll be a difficult test.

The large news this week changed into that the USGA will bump the winner's check all of the manner as much as $1mil, making it the second LPGA event to boast a 7-discern first prize. (The CME Group Tour Championship will pay $1.5mil.) The overall purse could be $5.5mil, almost $1.5mil above the following closest foremost, the Evian Championship.

Perhaps the biggest component you want to recall is that FOX has the exclusive insurance of USGA events, with the primary rounds carried on FOXSports1 and the ultimate rounds at the everyday FOX stations. Here are the ones times, from Tony's page:

• May 30 - FOXSports1 2:30 PM-7:30 PM ET
• May 31 - FOXSports1 2:30 PM-7:30 PM ET
• June 1 - FOX 2:00 PM-7:00 PM ET
• June 2 - FOX 2:00 PM-7:00 PM ET

Note that there will also be an hour-long Wednesday at the US Women's Open show from noon-1pm ET today on FOXSports1 as well.

And here are the streaming times on usga.org .

• May 30/Thursday
• 10:30am-12:30pm ET First Round: bonus coverage
• 2:30-7:30pm ET First Round: featured group
• May 31/Friday
• 10:30am-12:30pm ET Second Round: bonus coverage
• 2:30-7:30pm ET Second Round: featured group
• June 1/Saturday
• 2-7pm ET Third Round: featured group
• June 2/Sunday
• 2-7pm ET Fourth Round: featured group

If you want to get all this info the easy way, you can download the USGA's listing of all their championship broadcast times this year from this link.

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