The KPMG Women's PGA Championship is one of those rare opportunities to make a place for itself in golf history. If it is so difficult to win major championships, it is because they are both more contested and fewer in number. The attention is greater, the routes are more difficult and the endowments are much more important. But there are only five majors a year on the LPGA Tour. The opportunities are therefore extremely limited.

For the sixth year in a row, the PGA of America is hosting the KPMG at a classic venue that has previously hosted a major men's tournament. The Atlanta Athletic Club joins Aronimink GC, Hazeltine National GC, Kemper Lakes GC, Olympia Fields CC and Sahalee GC as major tournament venues having hosted a Women's Slam tournament since the first KPMG was played at Westchester CC in 2015 .

And as further evidence of the progression of women's golf over the past decade, the three major tournaments of the LPGA Tour 2021 moving are all located in venues that have hosted major men's tournaments. The Atlanta AC follows the US Women's Open at the Olympic Club and precedes the AIG Women's Open at the Carnoustie GL. The ANA Inspiration takes place every year at Mission Hills CC while the Amundi Evian Championship takes place every year at the Evian Resort GC in France.

The other added pressure from the majors is that they take place in the shadow of giants. Atlanta AC was Bobby Jones' original course and Atlanta was the birthplace of Louise Suggs, who in 1950 was one of the 13 founders of the LPGA Tour. She is also one of the best of all time, scoring 61 wins including 11 majors, including the Women's PGA of 1957.

This KPMG Women's PGA comes at a time when talent is unmatched on the LPGA Tour. With Yuka Saso winning the US Women's Open and Patty Tavatanakit winning the ANA Inspiration, the last 10 majors have been won by 10 different players, dating back to Jin Young Ko at the 2019 ANA, whom she has won. followed at Amundi Evian later in the year.

In fact, since KPMG and the PGA teamed up with the LPGA Tour to elevate the LPGA Championship in 2015, 25 players have won the 31 majors, Jin Young Ko, Ariya Jutanugarn, Sung Hyun Park, Lydia Ko, In Gee Chun and Inbee Park being the double winners during this period.

Until Nelly Korda won the Meijer Classic on Sunday, this year's 13 events have seen 13 different winners. Alongside Tavatanakit, Saso and Korda in the 2021 winner's circle are former majors such as Inbee Park, Lydia Ko, Brooke Henderson, Hyo Joo Kim and Ariya Jutanugarn, as well as top Rolex Ranking players Jessica Korda, Ally Ewing and Austin Ernst and rising stars Wei-Ling Hsu and Matilda Castren.

The KPMG Women's Leadership Summit is an essential component of the Women's PGA, an innovation that has since been emulated by other sporting events. For the seventh year in a row, this summit will bring together leaders from business, politics, sport and the media to empower women to access leadership positions. This year's keynote speaker is Patty Jenkins, the award-winning writer and director of "Wonder Woman" and "Wonder Woman 1984".

She will be joined by Angela Hwang, president of the biopharmaceutical group Pfizer, Paul Knoop, president and CEO of KPMG US, Stacy Lewis, two-time LPGA champion, Laura Newinski, vice president and COO. from KPMG US, Condoleezza Rice, 66th Secretary of State of the United States, and Chuck Robbins, Chief Executive Officer of Cisco, while Michele Tafoya, reporter for NBC Sunday Night Football, will be the host.

“We have high expectations of the KPMG Women's PGA Championship and the KPMG Women's Leadership Summit, which will inspire and inspire young professionals to aspire to incredible heights and know that they can do more”, said Laura Newinski of KPMG. “Most importantly, we know that Championship Week as well as the KPMG Women's Leadership Summit will inspire leaders to make different decisions to open those doors and break down those barriers and ensure that talented women have a path to success. that they hadn't seen before. "

The 156-player field includes eight PGA / LPGA club professionals who advanced to the 2020 PGA Women's Stroke Play Championship, won by Sandra Changkija. She will be joined by Joanna Coe, Stephanie Connelly-Eiswerth, Moira Dunn-Bohls, Ashley Grier, Allie Knight, Samantha Morrell and Alisa Rodriguez.

The Women's PGA 2020, which was pushed back to October by the pandemic, was won by Sei Young Kim who, at the time, was on the short list of top female golfers yet to win a major. . It's a list where Nelly Korda, with five LPGA Tour wins at the age of 22, certainly appears in the lead today.

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