Keely Levins

3 weeks ago | golfdigest.com | Keely Levins

If you feel like you’re seeing more women on the golf course than ever before, you’re right. According to the National Golf Foundation (NGF), a record 28 percent of all on-course golfers in 2024 were women. The total number of women golfers increased to nearly 8 million, marking the fifth consecutive year that the number of women playing golf has increased The pandemic is a clear player in this story: Female participation in golf has increased by 2.3 million since 2019.

3 weeks ago | golfdigest.com | Keely Levins

There are many mystical experiences you’ll encounter as a parent, but one of the greatest is sharing the things you love with your children, and watching them fall in love with them, too. Parents who play golf feel this viscerally, because if you see your child fall in love with the game, you know you’re witnessing the beginning of something that you’ll be able to do together for decades. Not every parent-child relationship has that; it’s a lucky thing.

3 weeks ago | golfdigest.com | Keely Levins

Nelly Korda has categorized her relationship with the U.S. Women’s Open as "complicated." She believes she’s more emotional about this major because the first time she played in it she was 14. She’s seen it break her heart, like in 2024 when she won a mystifying six of the seven events leading up to it, opened with an 80, and missed the cut. She’s said it's the major she most wants to win. When it was all over at Erin Hills, Korda was close, but still wasn’t going home with the trophy.

3 weeks ago | golfdigest.com | Keely Levins

Charley Hull was paired with Lexi Thompson and Nelly Korda during the first and second rounds at the U.S. Women’s Open at Erin Hills. Photos and videos started circulating on social media, where it appeared Hull was losing her patience with the pace of play. The assumption on social media was that Hull’s frustrations were specifically targeted at Thompson. In one, Hull was sitting on the ninth tee box while Thompson was still putting on the eigth green.

3 weeks ago | golfdigest.com | Keely Levins

Kiara Romero had no idea she was making history. She was just freewheeling it at Erin Hills on Sunday at the U.S. Women’s Open. After a brutal Saturday where she shot 84, Romero found herself at the bottom of the leaderboard. Instead of feeling defeated, Romero saw it as an opportunity. “I think just knowing that I was literally in dead last kind of freed me up into knowing I had absolutely nothing to lose and just playing my game,” Romero said after the round.