LANCASTER, Pa. – This is not the leaderboard many imagined at the start of this week. Not that a player like Minjee Lee, a two-time major winner and one of the LPGA’s premiere ball-strikers is a surprise. It’s more about who’s not playing this weekend in the 79th U.S. Women’s Open, superstars like Nelly Korda, Rose Zhang, Lydia Ko and Brooke Henderson all failing to rise to the test provided by this William Flynn gem.
But take heart! There are reasons to fall in love with this leaderboard at Lancaster Country Club, where the fans have come out in droves for what the local paper deemed the Olympic Games of this beautifully quaint community.
Dig a little deeper and discover all there is to enjoy about this eclectic board: