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2020 ANA Inspiration: 5 names to watch

The 2020 ANA Inspiration gets underway today from Mission Hills CC, with temperatures in excess of 100-degrees set to greet the players in the desert.
While the likes of Danielle Kang, Inbee Park, Minjee Lee and Sei Young Kim all start as the four likeliest to prevail in California this week, here’s 5 other names to keep an eye on who could be lifting the trophy come Sunday evening.
Lexi Thompson
It’s been a long time since Lexi Thompson has not been one of, if not the prohibitive favorite at the ANA Inspiration. Since winning the event back in 2014, Thompson has finished in the top 20 all five times she has teed it up at Mission Hills, and four of those times she has finished top 7 or better. If her putting holds up, then she could well be the woman to beat at her self confessed “favorite tournament”.
Odds: 20/1
Thursday Tee Time: 11.27 ET
Nelly Korda
The third-ranked player in the world and she isn’t yet in the top-4 in the betting. The younger Korda sister has two big things going for her this week: form and the course. The 22-year-old finished T13 at the British Open last month and followed that up with a T3 finish on her last outing. As for the course, the change from Rye grass to Bermuda for this week’s event could make all the difference as she is very familiar with the latter.
Known as a supreme driver of the ball, if the 22-year-old gets the putter hot, then it could be ominous for the rest of the field this week.
Odds: 16/1
Thursday Tee Time: 4.27 ET
In Gee Chun
Sneaking well and truly under the radar this week is multiple major champ In Gee Chun who has finished T7, T7 and T21 in her last three starts. The Korean had a runner-up finish here a few years ago, and recent form suggests that she is getting somewhat back to her best.
Odds: 55/1
Thursday Tee Time: 3.42 ET
Stacy Lewis
It’s been a while since Stacy Lewis has played her best at Mission Hills, but just like Nelly Korda, the Bermuda grass factor plays into her hands. This week, Lewis, who is well used to playing on Bermuda grass being from Houston, told media:
“I know how to hit the different types of chips out of the (Bermuda grass) rough, so I feel like I have a little bit of an advantage there.”
The 35-year-old returned to the winner’s circle last month in Scotland and is a previous winner at this week’s event.
Odds: 55/1
Thursday Tee time: 3.46 ET
Anna Nordqvist
Since lockdown, Nordqvist has looked re-born on the course. Though she faded in the harsh conditions at the British Open, back stateside, she claimed a runner-up finish at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship on her last outing. The 33-year-old is comfortable at Mission Hills, having finished in the top 10 here on four previous occasions, and she is a major champion who knows how to win.
Odds: 50/1
Thursday Tee Time: 11.09 ET
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‘Don’t think I’ll sleep well tonight’ – LPGA pro offers candid take following rough AIG Women’s Open finish

An opening round of 77 left LPGA pro Jenny Shin with a mountain to climb at last week’s AIG Women’s Open.
However, fighting back with rounds of 69 and 67, Shin found herself six shots off the lead and just outside the top 10 heading into Sunday as she went in search of her first major victory.
Shin, who won the US Girls’ Junior at just 13, couldn’t back those rounds up on Sunday, though, and after playing her opening nine holes of the final round in level par, she then bogeyed three holes coming home to slip down the leaderboard and eventually finish T23.
Taking to X following the final round, Shin offered a frustrated and honest take on how she was feeling, posting: “Don’t think I’ll sleep well tonight. What a crappy way to finish.”
Don’t think I’ll sleep well tonight. What a crappy way to finish
— Jenny Shin (@JennyShin_LPGA) August 3, 2025
Shin has made 11 cuts in 13 starts on the LPGA Tour this season, but has been plagued by frustrating Sunday finishes throughout the year. Shin ranks 102nd on tour this year out of 155 for Round 4 scoring in 2025.
Miyu Yamashita won the 2025 AIG Women’s Open with a composed final round of 70 to win her first major of her career by two strokes.
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How a late golf ball change helped Cameron Young win for first time on PGA Tour

Cameron Young won the Wyndham Championship on Sunday for his first victory on the PGA Tour.
Young dominated all weekend at TPC Sedgefield, running away from the pack to win by six strokes and put himself in contention for a Ryder Cup pick in September.
Ahead of the event, the 28-year-old switched to a Pro V1x prototype golf ball for the first time, following recent testing sessions with the Titleist Golf Ball R&D team.
Interestingly, Young played a practice round accompanied by Fordie Pitts, Titleist’s Director of Tour Research & Validation, at TPC Schedule early last week with both his usual Pro V1 Left Dot ball and the new Pro V1x prototype.
Per Titleist, by the second hole Young was exclusively hitting shots with the Pro V1x prototype.
“We weren’t sure if he was going to test it this week, but as he was warming up, he asked to hit a couple on the range,” Pitts said. “He was then curious to see some shots out on the course. Performance-wise, he was hitting tight draws everywhere. His misses were staying more in play. He hit some, what he would call ‘11 o’clock shots,’ where again he’s taking a little something off it. He had great control there.”
According to Titleist, the main validation came on Tuesday on the seventh hole of his practice round. The par 3 that played between 184 and 225 yards during the tournament called for a 5-iron from Young, or so he thought. Believing there was “no way” he could get a 6-iron to the flag with his Left Dot, Young struck a 5-iron with the Pro V1x prototype and was stunned to see the ball land right by the hole.
“He then hits this 6-iron [with the Pro V1x prototype] absolutely dead at the flag, and it lands right next to the pin, ending up just past it,” Pitts said. “And his response was, ‘remarkable.’ He couldn’t believe that he got that club there.”
Following nine holes on Tuesday and a further nine on Wednesday, Young asked the Titleist team to put the ProV1x balls in his locker. The rest, as they say, is history.
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Rickie Fowler makes equipment change to ‘something that’s a little easier on the body’

Rickie Fowler fired an opening round of one-under par on Thursday at the Wyndham Championship, as the Californian looks to make a FedEx Cup playoff push.
Fowler is currently 61st in the standings, so will need a strong couple of weeks to extend his season until the BMW Championship, where only the top 50 in the standings will tee it up.
Heading into the final stretch of the season, Fowler has made an equipment switch of note, changing into new iron shafts, as well as making a switch to his driver shaft.
The 36-year-old revealed this week that he has switched from his usual KBS Tour C-Taper 125-gram steel shafts to the graphite Aerotech SteelFiber 125cw shafts in his Cobra King Tour irons, a change he first put into play at last month’s Travelers Championship.
Speaking on the change to reporters this week, Fowler made note that the graphite shafts offer “something that’s a little easier on the body.”
“I mean, went to the week of Travelers, so been in for, I guess that’s a little over a month now. Something that’s a little easier on the body and seemed to get very similar numbers to where I was at. Yeah, it’s gone well so far.”
Fowler has also made a driver shaft change, switching out his Mitsubishi Diamana WB 73 TX for a UST Mamiya Lin-Q Proto V1 6 TX driver shaft in his Cobra DS-Adapt X, which he first implemented a couple of weeks ago at the John Deere Classic.
However, according to Fowler himself, the testing and potential changes are not done yet.
“Probably do some more testing in some different weight configurations with them once I get some time. Yeah, I feel like we’re always trying to search, one, to get better but are there ways to make things easier, whether that’s physically, mentally, whatever it may be. So yeah, I thought they were good enough to obviously put into play and looking forward to doing some more testing.”
Fowler gets his second round at TPC Sedgefield underway at 7.23 a.m ET on Friday.