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The Latest from the 2025 U.S. Women's Open

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Rob Hernandez

10:16

5:38

Kind of the calm before the storm here at Erin Hills. The rain has largely stopped. Practice rounds are wrapping up. Here's what we have set to post to Wisconsin.Golf from the 80th U.S. Women's Open:

Gary D'Amato will have a piece on 10 golfers that could hoist the Harten S. Semple trophy.
Gary will also have a story on Yani Tseng, a five-time major champion back this year for the first time since 2016.
I will have a story on the youth movement in women's golf and why today's teen golfers are ready to contend on the big stage.
We will have a Talking.Golf Podcast where we share our favorites, our darkhorses and our golfers to watch.

1:36

We chatted with teen-age qualifiers Asterisk Talley and Jude Lee. Talley, 16, finished T-44 in her first U.S. Women's Open last year at Lancaster CC. Lee got through a qualifier at Soboba Springs GR near Hemet, Calif., a frequent site for PGA Tour Q-Schools and Pre-Qualifiers. Both are on the U.S. National Junior Team and do not seem intimidated by this setting.

10:25

Here is video of Yani's putt to get here

10:09

We have three golfers on our interview schedule today:

Amateurs Asterisk Talley and Jude Lee at 11:15 a.m.

Five-time major champion Yani Tseng, who qualified for her first U.S. Women's Open since 2016 at the Final Qualifier I covered in Arizona

10:03

I asked world No. 2 Jeeno Thitikul if there is a certain wind speed where she would become uncomfortable. Her response: "Not really. If it's hard to me, it's hard to everyone, too. But a strong wind is better than a swirl."

10:01

The wind will be something to watch. On "Live From" on Golf Channel yesterday, Brandel Chamblee suggested that winds would have to exceed 20 mph to truly be "Erin Hills winds."

The forecast calls for it to be 5 to 10 mph Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, but 10 to 20 mph on Friday. With so many featured groups going early/late the first two rounds, those winds on Friday could have a significant impact on the leaderboard.

9:52

There are not many golfers on the range quite yet. Of course, when your weather app looks like this, you might be inclined to wait for a break in the rain!

9:03

Welcome to a cool, gray and rainy Wednesday at Erin Hills. It is the final day of practice rounds for the 80th U.S. Women's Open as we dodge the raindrops here outside of Milwaukee

*** Wednesday, May 28 ***

Rob Hernandez

2:06

1:30

Here is the Early/Late wave for Thursday and Friday play.

1:28

The Late/Early wave of Thursday/Friday tee times.

1:27

And how about this group going off No. 1 at 1:25 p.m. Thursday: World No. 1 Nelly Korda, playing with fan favorite Charley Hull and semi-retired Lexi Thompson!

1:22

Thursday/Friday tee times are out! Some good groups to follow early Thursday:

7:07 a.m. off No. 10: Augusta National Women's Amateur champion Carla Bernat Escuder of Spain, who is paired with Canada's Brooke Henderson and Korean Hyejin Choi.

7:40 a.m. off No. 10: Defending champion Yuka Saso, who is paired with reigning U.S. Women's Amateur and U.S. Girls Junior champ Rianne Malixi and world No. 3 Lydia Ko.

7:51 a.m. off No. 10: World No. 2 Jeeno Thitikul, who is paired with Lilia Vu and Rose Zhang.

8:02 a.m. off No. 10: Former champions Ariya Jutanugarn, Allisen Corpuz and A Lim Kim.

1:12

Big Ten Conference runner-up Kary Hollenbaugh, a junior at Ohio State, will have the honors in the first group off the first tee during Thursday's opening round. She qualified at her home club at New Albany CC in New Albany, Ohio, where her father is the long-time director of golf.

1:04

Milwaukee TV veteran Lance Allan put USGA CEO and unabashed Bears fan Mike Whan in the uncomfortable position of praising Wisconsin sports fans and what they bring to an event like the U.S. Women's Open:

"I can't believe you're going to make me, as a Chicagoan, say this. You must be local and you need a sound,byte. But it is a great sports town. It drives me crazy because we've been -- as the Bears, we've been watching your great sports town and your celebrations for a long time. It's just a great sports town

"When I was at the LPGA, we did an event in Green Bay, and to put on a chisor, which is a cheese visor, and walk down the fairway was a bit of a stretch for a Chicagoan. But man, they just love their sport, love the athletes. They came out in a big way. I just think the sport IQ is high in Wisconsin. People don't just like the sport, they really learn it, know it, and the airplane conversations flying into here are just better."

12:59

Nelly Korda has never finished better than T-8 in this championship and she is ready for a stern test from Erin Hills. I thought this comment was particularly revealing: "It tests every part of your game. It's very demanding. It's firm. It's fast, as well. Even if you think you've hit it good, you just can never -- you can exhale when you see it stop."

In other words, don't look for golfers to start walking after their shots at impact. Between wind and elevation changes and that firmness, there is no telling where some shots could wind up.

12:44

Hello and welcome to Day 2 coverage from the U.S. Women's Open. Gary D'Amato is with me today and we spent more than an hour in the interview area hearing from world No. 1 Nelly Korda, the USGA's Shannon Rouillard and Mike Whan and world No. 3 Lydia Ko.

*** Tuesday, May 27 ***

Rob Hernandez

4:54

The tee-sheet scoreboard says Carlota Ciganta is going out at 5:16 p.m. They are starting to enter the Dretzka Park Twilight special: A sleeve of Noodles, a beverage and all the golf you can walk after 5:30 p.m. for $23.

3:33

Defending champion Yuka Saso was also in to meet the media. She revealed that the U.S. Women's Open trophy went on "victory tours" in Japan, the Philippines and at her U.S. home in Dallas. Beth Ann Nichols of Golfweek asked her were it went in Dallas. Her answer was, essentially, no where in particular.

"Oh, just everywhere I go," she said. "It was in my car. Nobody is going to steal my car. They were like, 'Oh, what's that, must be very important.'"

3:29

Just got back from our first flash-area interview with 2023 U.S. Women's Open Champion Allisen Corpuz. She was one of a handful of competitors here this week who played in the first USGA event held at Erin Hills -- the 2008 U.S. Women's Public Links Championship. She was 10 at the time and shot 81-88 to miss a playoff for the final spots in match play by nine strokes.

1:17

Nelly Korda's 9:52 a.m. practice time filled quickly Monday. She played with amateurs Jude Lee, a 17-year-old Stanford commit from Walunt, Calif.; Lauren Nguyen, a 21-year-old redshirt junior at Texas A&M; and Hana Ryskova, a 26-year-old former Louisville golfer from the Czech Republic. Korda is also 26.

12:49

Indiana University golfer Madison Dabagia, the first alternate out of the Elgin, Ill.,. qualifier, appears to be on site at Erin Hills in case anyone WDs. The daughter of former University of Wisconsin golfer Mark Dabagia was listed as having played a practice round this morning with Lilia Vu.

12:41

Amateur Brooke Biermann, who won the Final Qualifier in Belleville, Ill., playing in the same group as former University of Wisconsin golfer Bobbi Stricker of Madison, is playing a practice round this afternoon with Canadian Brooke Henderson. I can confirm they are the only two Brookes in the field.

12:32

My view from the Media Center of the driving range next door.

12:22

Here are tentative tee times. If you can't view this and you are coming out to Erin Hills this afternoon, I would recommend checking the latest revisions posted near the starting holes.

12:18

Good afternoon and welcome to the 80th United States Women's Open and our week-long coverage here on Wisconsin.Golf.

Today is the first day of official practice rounds at Erin Hills. Golfers are learning the expansive Hurdan/Fry design in anticipation of Thursday's opening round.

We'll have updates throughout the day from now through the end of the championship on Sunday.

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