Savannah Grewal continues to be getting used to taking part in on the LPGA Tour, together with normalizing taking part in in majors.
Grewal, from Mississauga, Ont., is in her sophomore season on the highest ladies’s golf circuit on the earth and is considered one of three Canadians within the area at this week’s Chevron Championship, the primary main of the yr. Grewal stated that after taking part in in three majors in 2024 she’s discovered to take them as simply one other spherical of golf.
“I really feel each match on the LPGA continues to be just a little starry-eyed for me in a way as a result of this has been my dream since I used to be eight-years-old and I’m dwelling out my dream,” stated the 23-year-old Wednesday throughout a climate delay throughout her follow spherical at The Membership at Carlton Woods in The Woodlands, Texas. “It’s at all times going to be enjoyable and thrilling for me, so I feel that’s one thing that hasn’t essentially modified.
“I feel my method to issues, whether or not it’s a serious or whether or not it’s not a serious, is I attempt to enter the match with the identical mindset as a result of I feel the second you attempt to make it larger than what it really is or make it into this large factor is if you add exterior strain to your self.”
Grewal performed in three majors in her rookie LPGA Tour season, lacking the lower on the Chevron Championship, the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship, and the Amundi Evian Championship. Though Grewal made the lower at eight of her ultimate 9 tournaments final yr to complete 97th on the LPGA Tour’s factors record, she needed to qualify for the 2025 Chevron Championship primarily based on her efficiency to this point this yr.
“It looks like truthfully an honour,” stated Grewal. “I wasn’t assured to be on this occasion this yr, so it feels good to have been in a position to play my means into the occasion.
“Any time you get to compete in a serious, it’s actually particular as a result of that’s the sort of match everybody needs to exit and win. It’s additionally what most individuals are remembered for, proper? What number of majors did they win? What did they do within the majors?”
Grewal has performed in 4 occasions this season, making the lower on the Blue Bay LPGA on March 6, the Ford Championship on March 27, and the JM Eagle LA Championship on April 17.
“(There have) simply been some little issues right here and there that I need to enhance on,” stated Grewal of her season to this point. “You’re at all times striving to enhance and to get higher, so I undoubtedly really feel prefer it’s headed in the appropriate path.
“I simply haven’t felt like I’ve seen myself put collectively 4 rounds but. If I’m in a position to try this, it’ll really feel just a little extra like a hit.”
Grewal shall be joined by Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., and Hamilton’s Alena Sharp on the Jack Nicklaus Signature Course this Thursday. Henderson is forty second on the Race to CME Globe factors record, Sharp is 104th and Grewal is 107th.
U.S. WOMEN’S OPEN — Vancouver’s Leah John earned a spot on this yr’s U.S. Girls’s Open, the third main of the yr, after tying for first in a qualifying spherical at Del Paso Nation Membership in Sacramento, Calif. on Monday. John shall be making her main debut on Might 29 and shall be taking part in in her second profession LPGA Tour occasion, having performed within the CPKC Girls’s Open final summer time in Calgary.
The nationwide staff member from Vancouver fired rounds of 65-70 (135) to complete at 7-under for 36 holes and earn considered one of three spots out there alongside together with her former College of Nevada teammate Gabby Kano. John turned overwhelmed with emotion as soon as she completed her second spherical, figuring out she secured her spot.
EPSON TOUR — Josee Doyon of Saint-Georges, Que., is twenty third on the Race for the Card factors record heading into Friday’s first spherical on the IOA Championship. She’ll be joined on the Champions Course at Morongo Golf Membership at Tukwet Canyon in Beaumont, Calif., by Maddie Szeryk (twenty fifth) of London, Ont., Monet Chun (fortieth) of Richmond Hill, Ont., Yeji Kwon (77th) of Port Coquitlam, B.C., Brooke Rivers (98th) of Brampton, Ont., and John (unranked).
PGA TOUR — The all-Canadian paring of Nick Taylor and Adam Hadwin, who grew up collectively in Abbotsford, B.C., face Garrick Higgo and Ryan Fox within the first spherical of the Zurich Traditional of New Orleans. Ben Silverman of Thornhill, Ont., will staff with Finland’s Sami Valimaki and Adam Svensson of Surrey, B.C., pairs with Australia’s Cam Davis at TPC Louisiana in Avondale, La. Taylor is twentieth within the FedEx Cup standings, Hadwin is a hundred and tenth, Svensson is 148th and Silverman is 163rd.
DP WORLD TOUR — Aaron Cockerill of Stony Mountain, Man., is the lone Canadian on the Hainan Traditional. He’s 122nd on the European-based tour heading into play this week on the Blackstone Course of Mission Hills Resort Haikou on Hainan Island in China.
CHAMPIONS TOUR — Calgary’s Stephen Ames and Mike Weir of Brights Grove, Ont., will tee it up on Friday on the Mitsubishi Electrical Traditional. Ames is a three-time champion at TPC Sugarloaf in Duluth, Ga., having gained in 2017, 2023 and final yr. He’s forty first on the Schwab Cup cash record and Weir is 81st.
KORN FERRY TOUR — Sudarshan Yellamaraju of Mississauga leads the Canadian contingent into this week’s Veritex Financial institution Championship. He’s twelfth on the second-tier tour’s factors record. He’ll be joined at Texas Rangers Golf Membership in Arlington by Matthew Anderson (thirty first), additionally from Mississauga, Myles Creighton (51st) of Digby, N.S., Roger Sloan (a hundred and first) of Merritt, B.C., Etienne Papineau (116th) of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., and Vancouver’s Stuart Macdonald (132nd).
AMERICAS TOUR — Toronto’s Drew Nesbitt is the top-ranked Canadian on the PGA Tour Americas. Nesbitt is tied for eleventh on the third-tier circuit’s factors record. He’s considered one of 11 Canadians taking part in within the KIA Open at Quito Tenis & Golf Membership in Ecuador this week.
EVANS SCHOLARSHIP — A pair of highschool college students from Victoria have been awarded the Western Golf Affiliation’s Chick Evans Scholarship. Connor Meir from Oak Bay Excessive Faculty and Joe Harris from Reynolds Secondary Faculty have earned a full four-year housing and tuition scholarship for golf caddies.
