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The sweltering heat and windy conditions weren’t the only difficult challenges for golfers at the KPMG Women’s PGA ...
In the wake of Sophia Popov’s stunning victory at the Women’s British Open, Cinderella’s name was commonly invoked, but that comparison hardly does justice to Popov. After all, the fictional ...
Roughly nine months before she stunned the golf world by winning the Women’s Open, Sophia Popov made what might go down as the most consequential bogey of her career. In the eighth and final ...
A single putt remained to stun the golf world. A few inches stood between Sophia Popov and perhaps the most improbable major victory in the history of the sport. The former All-American from USC ...
It had got to the point in her career that golfer Sophia Popov was contemplating trying her hand at something else. She had played in eight LPGA events during 2019, making the cut just once ...
But it’s Sophia Popov’s reality. A battle with Lyme disease that went undiagnosed for three years and resulted in a 25-pound weight loss, and a game that wasn’t up to the standards she knew ...
The Cinderella story of Sophia Popov climaxed on the fourth Sunday in August when she won the AIG Women’s Open, one of the major championships on the LPGA Tour. The 27-year old Popov claimed her ...
It was a chit-chat kind of question, an icebreaker at the beginning of one of several interviews Sophia Popov, winner of the Women’s British Open two weeks ago, would do one day last week at ...
Sophia Popov, with her stunning victory in the AIG Women’s British Open last summer, conceivably might have considered it tainted with a broad brush of rancor directed at the LPGA. Condemnation ...
Sophia Popov was ranked No. 304 when she won the Women’s British Open in August. Her world has changed mightily as she readies for the P.G.A. Championship. “It’s changed my life in a really ...
TROON, Scotland — Sophia Popov marked her ball a few inches from the hole on the 18th green, pulled the brim of her cap over her face and began to cry in the arms of her caddie. The realization ...
It had got to the point in her career that golfer Sophia Popov was contemplating trying her hand at something else. She had played in eight LPGA events during 2019, making the cut just once ...