Few women have teed it up in a men’s professional golf tournament on the highest stage.
Two of the LPGA’s earliest stars paved the way in this department, and there have been a handful of notable starts since then. It’s a unique pressure that’s unlike anything else they’ve ever faced. Lexi Thompson will be the seventh woman to tee it up on the PGA Tour.
What follows is by no means an exhaustive list of women who have teed it up against the men (on any level, from state amateurs to mini tours) but instead, these are some of the more iconic moments of women teeing it up in a different arena and making history.