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Golf at the Grove XXIII, a VIP weekend at WM Phoenix Open and Super Bowl among items up for grabs at this auction

There are some great golf experiences up for grabs at the Del Mar Country Club Golf Tournament and Dinner-Gala.

There are some pretty great experiences up for grabs at the Del Mar Country Club Golf Tournament and Dinner-Gala.

The goal of the function Saturday in Rancho Sante Fe, California, is to raise funds for SOF (Special Operations Forces) Support Foundation but the auction prizes are next-level. It might be the only way most of us would ever have a chance to do some of these things.

For example, want to play golf at Michael Jordan’s private golf club, the Grove XXIII? Oh, and for this round of golf you’ll play alongside Michael Strahan, who won a Super Bowl as a member of the New York Giants.

Perhaps you’d rather head to the Arizona desert in February for a VIP weekend for suite tickets at the WM Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale, and, a pair of tickets to Super Bowl LVII, which kicks off right after the final round across town in Glendale at the Arizona Cardinals home stadium.

Or maybe your thing is a Vegas weekend with a stay at the MGM Grand, a round of golf at Shadow Creek Golf Club with musician and golf nut Darius Rucker, and a private dinner.

There’s going to be much more up for auction at the event, which starts with an 18-hole golf scramble prior to the gala. Special guests at the event include keynote speaker Michéle Flournoy, featured speaker Michael W. MacKay and special guest Retired Navy SEAL Bob Harward.

Flournoy was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy under President Bill Clinton and Under Secretary of Defense for Policy under President Barack Obama. MacKay is a Defense Fellow in the House of Representatives Washington, D.C., serving as the Military Assistant to the Legislative Director for defense, nuclear, military construction, veteran’s affairs and related issues. Harward is a retired United States Navy SEAL and a former Deputy Commander of the United States Central Command.

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Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play 2022: Top 100 U.S. public-access courses ranked

Where are the best places you can play golf in the U.S.? Our rankings of the best 100 public courses for 2022 will be your guide.

Welcome to the Golfweek’s Best 2022 list of the Top 100 Best Courses You Can Play in the U.S.

Each year we publish many lists, with this selection of public-access layouts among the premium offerings. Also extremely popular and significant are the lists for Top 200 Classic Courses, Top 200 Modern Courses, the Best Courses You Can Play State by State and Best Private Courses State by State.

The hundreds of members of our course-ratings panel continually evaluate courses and rate them based on 10 criteria on a points basis of 1 through 10. They also file a single, overall rating on each course. Those overall ratings are averaged to produce these rankings. The top handful of courses in the world have an average rating of above 9, while many excellent layouts fall into the high-6 to the 8 range.

All the courses on this list allow public access in some fashion, be it standard daily green fees, through a resort or by staying at an affiliated hotel. If there’s a will, there’s a tee time.

Each course is listed with its average rating next to the name, the location, the year it opened and the designers. Also included with many courses are links to recent stories about that layout.

KEY: (m) modern, built in 1960 or after; (c) classic, built before 1960. Also included with many courses are links to recent stories about that layout.

* Indicates new to or returning to this list.

Eun-Hee Ji wins LPGA Match Play in Las Vegas, clinches final spot in 2022 U.S. Women’s Open field

Eun-Hee Ji now has a shot at the $1.8 million first-place prize at Pine Needles.

Eun-Hee Ji won on the LPGA for the first time in three years.

Her timing couldn’t have been better.

Ji outlasted the 64-player field at the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play at Shadow Creek in Vegas and by winning, she clinched the final spot in this week’s U.S. Women’s Open.

Ji was one of 19 hopefuls in Vegas who were not yet in the field at Pine Needles. She becomes the first player since Katherine Kirk in 2017 to win the LPGA tournament prior to the U.S. Women’s Open and thereby clinch the final spot. Ji, 36, is the oldest Korean winner on the LPGA.

The win was the sixth of her career and first since claiming the 2019 Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions. Ji defeated Andrea Lee 4 and 3 in the semifinals before claiming a 3-and-2 win Ayaka Furue in the final at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas.

Now, Ji will be playing for big bucks in North Carolina. The 77th U.S. Women’s Open has a $10 million purse, with $1.8 million going to the winner.

Benefits of a purse that size extend throughout the whole field, however, even to those who don’t play the weekend. This year, professionals who miss the cut will receive $8,000, double what was given last year at The Olympic Club in San Francisco. The men who missed the U.S. Open cut at Torrey Pines last year received $10,000.

Golfweek’s Beth Ann Nichols contributed to this article.

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LPGA Match Play: Eun-Hee Ji takes care of Solheim Cupper Madelene Sagstrom 7&6 to advance to semifinals

Two more matches will decide the winner in Vegas.

After Hye-Jin Choi squared up their round of 16 match on the 15th hole, Eun-Hee Ji won Nos. 16 and 17 to win 2 and 1 to advance to the quarterfinals at Shadow Creek for the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play in Las Vegas.

Her second match was, let’s just say, less stressful.

Ji drew Madelene Sagstrom, the 29th-ranked player in the world and a Solheim Cup veteran, and took care of business. She started the match 1-up after winning the first hole, then won three of the next five holes to take a commanding lead. After halving Nos. 7 and 8, Ji won the next three holes to close out the match 7 and 6.

Almost Stephen Ames territory.

Jodi Ewart Shadoff currently leads Ayaka Furue 2-up thru 14 holes. Lilia Vu leads hometown girl Jenny Shin 1-up through 14, while the last match out Saturday, Gemma Dryburgh versus Andrea Lee, is all square thru 13 holes.

The semifinal matches will be Sunday morning, followed by the championship match and third-place match.

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LPGA: Las Vegas resident Jenny Shin takes down two major champions on her way to advancing to Sweet 16

It’s win or go home time in Vegas.

It was a busy day in Las Vegas, Nevada, for the best women golfers in the world. Many are going home early, but 16 will advance to the knock-out round of the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play.

One of the ladies to advance was Jenny Shin, who lives in Las Vegas and is hoping to thrive off that home cooking this weekend.

During her Wednesday match against 2020 AIG Women’s Open winner Sophia Popov, she was able to win 2 and 1. And the next day, she took care of 2019 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship winner Hannah Green handily, 5 and 3. On Friday, she didn’t win. But she also didn’t lose.

Shin halved her match with Haeji Kang, but her 2-0-1 record was good enough to win group six.

So far, four ladies have completed the group stage with a perfect record: Tiffany Chan (group two), Paula Reto (group seven), Lilia Vu (group 14), and Jodi Ewart Shadoff (group 15). While some of the biggest names in the sport failed to advance including Danielle Kang, Megan Khang, Charley Hull, Georgia Hall, and Jeongeun Lee6.

“I’m just doing everything I can off the golf course to get me through the days and to get back to where I was, and it’s going to take some time,” Kang said on Thursday regarding her health. “It’s going to take some patience and time for everybody. I just need to thank my team for getting me here. It’s a little win that I have to take right now.”

As of now, Kang is in the field for next week’s U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles. Another star teeing it up in North Carolina is Nelly Korda, who’s making her first start since February due to surgery on her left arm to address a blood clot.

Click here to see all the results from day three.

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‘I’m not ready to play’: Danielle Kang still struggling at home course at LPGA Match Play

The Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play is being played at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas.

It’s been a tough start for Danielle Kang on her home course at the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play. One day after losing 7 and 5 to two-time Olympian Kelly Tan, Kang fell to Eun-Hee Ji in the second day of round-robin matches at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas.

Ji now moves to 2-0 in the tournament. The 2009 U.S. Women’s Open winner needs to win this week to play her way into the 2022 Women’s Open field at Pine Needles.

The field of 64 has been divided into 16 groups of four, and after three days of round-robin matches, the competition will move to a 16-player, single-elimination bracket.

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Kang, who withdrew from the Lotte Championship as well as the new Palos Verdes event with back pain, took several weeks off from competition to rest and rebab.

“I don’t really know how to answer these questions right now,” Kang said after the first round when asked about her health. “I’m not ready to play.”

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Kang, who is currently No. 11 in the world, lives in Las Vegas and counts MGM as a sponsor, two factors that were key to her teeing it up this week. A healthy Kang, a two-time U.S. Women’s Amateur champion and Solheim Cup stalwart, would’ve been on the short list of favorites this week.

“I’m just doing everything I can off the golf course to get me through the days and to get back to where I was, and it’s going to take some time,” said Kang. “It’s going to take some patience and time for everybody. I just need to thank my team for getting me here. It’s a little win that I have to take right now.”

Kang will face Pajaree Anannarukarn in Friday’s round.

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There is one spot remaining in 2022 U.S. Women’s Open field. These 19 players at LPGA Match Play have one last chance to qualify.

The 64-player field in Las Vegas features 19 seeking to qualify for the 2022 U.S. Women’s Open.

The 64-player field at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas for the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play features six of the 11 winners this season on the LPGA: Danielle Kang, Hyo Joo Kim, Nanna Koerstz Madsen, Jennifer Kupcho, Minjee Lee and Atthaya Thitikul.

Also in the field: 19 U.S. Women’s Open hopefuls.

The match-play event is the final LPGA tournament before the second women’s major of 2022.

The 156-player USWO field has 155 players locked in, and there is one open spot remaining in the field.

There 19 players in Las Vegas who have yet to qualify but can secure their spot with a win Sunday: Albane Valenzuela, Emma Talley, Kelly Tan, Esther Henseleit, Ashleigh Buhai, Chella Choi, Youngin Chun, Wei-Ling Hsu, Lauren Stephenson, Aditi Ashok, Su Oh, Elizabeth Szokol, Jodi Ewart Shadoff, Sarah Schmelzel, Haeji Kang, Perrine Delacour, Jenny Shin, Jasmine Suwannapura and former USWO champ Eun-Hee Ji.

The 77th U.S. Women’s Open begins next Thursday at Pine Needles in Southern Pines, North Carolina.

Jennifer Kupcho won the LPGA’s first major of the year at the Chevron Championship. No player has won twice this year.

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Golfweek’s Best Modern Courses 2022: From Bandon Dunes to Kiawah Island, the top 200 golf courses built after 1960

Golfweek’s experts have ranked the Top 200 courses built since 1960, such as Bandon Dunes, Whistling Straights, TPC Sawgrass, Kiawah and more.

Welcome to the Golfweek’s Best 2022 list of the Top 200 Modern Courses built in or after 1960 in the United States.

Each year we publish many lists, with this Top 200 Modern Courses list among the premium offerings. Also extremely popular and significant are the lists for Top 200 Classic Courses, the Best Courses You Can Play State by State and Best Private Courses State by State.

The hundreds of members of our course-ratings panel continually evaluate courses and rate them based on 10 criteria on a points basis of 1 through 10. They also file a single, overall rating on each course. Those overall ratings are averaged to produce these rankings. The top handful of courses in the world have an average rating of above 9, while many excellent layouts fall into the high-6 to the 8 range.

To ensure these lists are up-to-date, Golfweek’s Best in recent years has altered how the individual ratings are compiled into the rankings. Only ratings from rounds played in the past 10 years are included in the compilations. This helps ensure that any course in the rankings still measures up.

Courses also must have a minimum of 25 votes to qualify for the Top 200 Modern or the Top 200 Classic. Other Golfweek’s Best lists, such as Best Courses You Can Play or Best Private, do not require as many votes. This makes it possible that a course can show up on other lists but not on the premium Top 200 lists.

Each course is listed with its average rating next to the name, the location, the year it opened and the designers. The list also notes in parenthesis next to the name of each course where that course ranked in 2021. Also included with many courses are links to recent stories about that layout.

After the designers are several designations that note what type of facility it is:

• p: private
• d: daily fee
• r: resort course
• t: tour course
• u: university
• m: municipal
• re: real estate
• c: casino

* Indicates new to or returning to this list.

Editor’s note: The 2022 Golfweek’s Best Classic Courses list for the top 200 layouts built before 1960 in the U.S. will be posted Wednesday, May 25. The Best Courses You Can Play lists and the Best Private Courses lists will follow over the next two weeks. 

Golfweek’s Best 2022: Top 200 Resort Golf Courses in the U.S.

The top 200 resort courses in the U.S. stretch from Pebble Beach and Bandon Dunes to Whistling Straits and Pinehurst.

Welcome to Golfweek’s Best 2022 list of top resort golf courses in the United States.

The hundreds of members of our course-ratings panel continually evaluate courses and rate them based on our 10 criteria. They also file a single, overall rating on each course. Those overall ratings on each course are averaged to produce a final, cumulative rating. Then each course is ranked against other courses in the region.

This list focuses on the golf courses themselves, not the resorts as a whole or other amenities. Each golf course included is listed with its average rating from 1 to 10, its location, architect(s) and the year it opened.

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Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play: Semis set as Ariya Jutanugarn eeks past Minjee Lee, Sophia Popov wins major battle

Ariya Jutanugarn is looking for another LPGA, this time in a head-to-head format, as the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play is down to four.

Ariya Jutanugarn nearly ran out of gas Saturday in her quarterfinal match against Minjee Lee at the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas. But Jutanugarn, 4 up by the turn, managed to ride it out, and with a spot in the Sunday’s semifinal, would need to make it through another 36-hole day to earn a second win on the LPGA in the past three starts (she won the Honda LPGA Thailand at the start of the month).

The eight-woman quarterfinal bracket at Shadow Creek was dominated by twentysomethings not very far removed, really, from head-to-head play in summer U.S. Golf Association championships. In fact, in 2012, Jutanugarn and Lee met in the semifinals of the U.S. Girls’ Junior. Lee won that one, and went on to win the title at Lake Merced Golf Club in Daly City, California.

On Sunday morning, Jutanugarn draws Ally Ewing, a first-time winner on the LPGA last season at the Drive On Championship at Reynolds Lake Oconee who also drew on some memories in her quarterfinal match against Danielle Kang on Saturday afternoon.

Ewing and Kang, both members of the 2019 U.S. Solheim Cup team, went head-to-head down the stretch at the Drive On with Ewing coming out on top by a shot.

At Shadow Creek, Ewing trailed much of the match, but went 1 up at No. 14 and held on to that advantage to close out Kang on the 18th green.

In a battle of major champions, Sophia Popov defeated Patty Tavatanakit, 3 and 2, on Saturday evening to advance to the final match. Popov went up early with a birdie on No. 2 and slowly increased that advantage to eventually take down Tavatanakit on the 16th hole.

Popov will meet Shanshan Feng in the semifinals after Feng defeated Eun-Hee Ji in 19 holes in the last quarterfinal match of the day.

The Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play started with a field of 64 players, divided into 16 groups of four. After after three days of round-robin matches, only 16 players advanced to the weekend to compete on a single-elimination bracket. The semifinal and final matches will take place on Sunday.