Tag: Bronte Law

‘I don’t think that that’s a lot to ask for’: Bronte Law unhappy how she learned Georgia Hall and Charley Hull will skip International Crown

Radio silence didn’t make for happy remaining teammates on English team after two players withdraw.

For the first time since 2018, the Hanwha Lifeplus International Crown is back on the LPGA schedule.

One of the unique events on the golf calendar, the event pits the top eight countries (based on the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings) against one another in match play May 4-7. This week’s tournament will be at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco. It’s the fourth installment of the event.

The United States and Korea have dominated the event, but other countries are doing their best to try to take down those two, including Team England.

However, England will attempt to do so without two of its top players, Georgia Hall and Charley Hull. The duo withdrew Saturday, leaving officials scrambling to replace them. Hall told Golfweek she has struggled with her left foot for several weeks. Hull said she hasn’t felt well recently and planned to go home to see a doctor.

However, their Team England teammates don’t sound too happy with their decision. Bronte Law and Jodi Ewart Shadoff said they didn’t find out about Hall and Hull’s decision until Sunday, Law joking she found out through “Chinese whispers,” which is a game in the United Kingdom similar to the American game of telephone in which information is repeated.

“I think anyone with some level of decency would send their teammates a message that they weren’t coming, not find out from other players on tour who have heard things from them saying things at the tournament last week,” Law said during a pre-tournament press conference at TPC Harding Park. “I don’t think that that’s a lot to ask for.”

Ladies European Tour players Alice Hewson and Liz Young flew in Sunday from England to round out the four-player English squad.

“Very happy to have both Alice and Liz are here,” Law said. “They’re both very patriotic, very team-oriented, and I think that that’s a testament to kind of what this tournament is about and is more important than the individuals in the team.

“I know that they’ll fight with everything that they’ve got.”

Law said she didn’t get any messages from Hall or Hull until Tuesday, when Hull reached out to apologize for not being able to play.

“But it’s besides the point now,” she said. “We’re here, and this is our team This is Team England.”

The competition gets underway Thursday. There are eight teams in this year’s Crown: U.S., South Korea, Japan, Sweden, England, Thailand, Australia and China.

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Bronte Law edges Maria Fassi under the lights in dramatic Dubai Moonlight Classic

Bronte Law came out on top after a back-and-forth shootout under the lights at the Dubai Moonlight Classic.

It seemingly happened so fast. Bronte Law shut the door on what had been a back-and-forth shootout under the lights at the Dubai Moonlight Classic with an eagle on the 16th hole and an absolute dart on the par-3 17th (her last due to the shotgun start) that was so good, she didn’t even need to watch.

Maria Fassi, who looked on the brink of winning all day, surely didn’t know what hit her.

The day started with 19 players within six shots of the lead over the Faldo Course at Emirates Golf Club and ended with Law carding an 8-under 64 to claim her first victory on the Ladies European Tour. Law finished at 15 under for the 54-hole tournament, edging Fassi by one stroke.

Germany’s Esther Henseleit finished alone in third at 12 under.

“It’s a bit of a blur really,” said Law. “I just went out and was trying to post a number. I said to my caddie, Ken, yesterday, ‘Let’s go out and try to shoot 7 under tomorrow.’ And I’ve gone one better.

“It’s a bit surreal right now, actually,” she said. “I’m just so happy to be back here (in the winner’s circle). It’s been a while.”

This week marked Law’s seventh in a row. There was a time, she said, that she couldn’t play three in a row due to back pain.

“It’s hard when things aren’t going your way and you feel like the world is against you,” said Law, “but I’ve got a lot of people that have stuck by me, and I owe them a lot.”

Law, who was a hero at the 2019 Solheim Cup, didn’t make the 2021 European team.

“I don’t think people understand how hard it is to be an athlete and the scrutiny that you’re under,” said Law. “You question yourself at times, and it’s so hard to pull yourself back through that, but I’ve trusted the process and obviously it’s working.”

For a while, it looked like Fassi might be headed back to LPGA Q-Series this year. But the former NCAA champ from Arkansas pulled it together after surgery and a string of missed cuts to finish fifth at the ShopRite LPGA Classic and T-15 at the Amundi Evian Championship. She’s currently 86th in the CME Rankings. The top 100 keep their cards for 2022.

“I think I played good golf all week,” said Fassi, who shot 63-71-68, “but Bronte shot 8 under today. It’s never nice to lose, but to lose when she played like that, she very much deserved to be crowned champion today.”

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Excel, agency that represents Tiger Woods launches women’s division with addition of six up-and-comers

The agency adds a stable of six new women’s golfers to join longtime client Cheyenne Woods.

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Excel Sports Management – the agency that represents Tiger Woods and Justin Thomas, among others – has launched a women’s division. Excel has long represented Cheyenne Woods, Tiger’s niece, but is expanding its stable with some of women’s golf’s most promising young pros.

The expansion brings six more women’s golfers on board, including Bronte Law, Kristen Gillman, Jillian Hollis, Andrea Lee, Albane Valenzuela and Sierra Brooks.

More than half of that group will be rookies this year. Symetra Tour graduate Hollis plus former Stanford players Valenzuela and Lee will all compete on the LPGA. Brooks, a former Florida player,  will start out on the Symetra Tour.

Valenzuela competed in the 2016 Olympics for Switzerland.

Related: Sierra Brooks player diary

Law won her first LPGA title at the 2019 Pure Silk Championship and was a member of the victorious European Solheim Cup team later in the year. Gillman made 22 cuts in 26 events as a rookie last season, finishing second in the Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year standings.

“Launching this women’s golf division is a very proud moment for Excel Sports Management,” said Mark Steinberg, Partner and President of Golf, Excel Sports Management. “We’re looking to build something here that will benefit women golfers around the world, providing opportunities they deserve on and off the course.”

Kevin Hopkins will lead the women’s division for Excel. Hopkins joined the agency in 2018 and has 15 years of experience in the golf representation and event management space, serving as the Executive Director for multiple Major Championships on the LPGA calendar including the ANA Inspiration (2012-2019) and the U.S. Women’s Open (2017).

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10 best women’s college golfers of the decade

Golfweek’s Julie Williams ranks the top 10 female college golfers of the past decade.

Women’s college golf is continually getting deeper, as evidenced by the number of new teams that are constantly coming into the mix in the postseason.

The past decade not only saw breakout stars, but more opportunities. For one thing, a women’s player of the year award came into the mix in 2014 with the creation of the ANNIKA Award. Like the Haskins Award, it’s voted on by players coaches and media.

Three of the women on this list have won that award — some multiple times. Others broke program record, NCAA records, racked up titles or led their teams to NCAA glory.

These are the best 10 women’s college golfers of the decade.

10. Bronte Law, UCLA (2013-2016)

UCLA’s Bronte Law. (Photo: UCLA Athletics)

Law won seven times in three and a half seasons as a Bruin (which is a program record), and almost half of those came in her junior season. That year ended with the ANNIKA Award as well as the top spot in the Golfweek/Sagarin College Rankings. Over the course of her college career, Law shaved three shots off her scoring average.

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