Giulia Molinaro, committed to getting back on the money list where she is currently 146th, takes part in the Dana Open presented by Marathon, a well attended LPGA Tour event, because in the field there are eight projects among the top ten in the world.
Dana Open, schedule
On the course of the Highland Meadows Golf Club, in Sylvania, Ohio, the Japanese Nasa Hataoka, number nine of the Rolex Ranking, will defend the title, who will have to contend with the Australian Minjee Lee (n.3), the New Zealander Lydia Ko (n .
4), Canadian Brooke M. Henderson (No. 5), Thailand Atthaya Thitikul (No. 6), American Lexi Thompson (No. 7) and with the Korean Hyo Joo Kim (No. 8) and In Gee Chun (No. 10). The other Korean Jin Young Ko, world number one and in a moment of poor form, and Nelly Korda, number two, were absent.
Together with Hataoka and Lydia Ko (two titles, 2014 and 2016), there will be seven other past winners: Americans Paula Creamer (2008) and Danielle Kang (2020) – with the latter returning to play last week, after the stop from early June to treat a serious illness, – and the Koreans Na Yeon Choi (2010), So Yeon Ryu (2012), Chella Choi (2015), In-Kyung Kim (2017) and Sei Young Kim (2019) , In addition to the aforementioned, in the field there are many other players able to propose themselves as protagonists among which we remember Jennifer Kupcho, the South African Ashleigh Buhai, winner of the AIG Women’s Open, the last major of the season, the Thai Ariya Jutanugarn, the Korean Jeongeun Lee6 and To Lim Kim, the Irish Leona Maguire, the Japanese Ayako Uehara and Yuka Saso and the Mexican Gaby Lopez.
Among the starters, for the second week in a row. Lucy Li, leader of the Epson Tour order of merit, who earned her place in the field with ninth place in the previous CP Women’s Open. Giulia Molinaro, who cashed last week in Canada after having suffered four cuts in a row, will definitely try to change pace. The prize pool is $ 1,750,000.
