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Texas A&M Athletics officially named their "Whataburger Players of the Month" for the month of May.

Former champion Yuka Saso leaned on her putter to survive a brutally tough start to the U.S. Women's Open on Thursday, an opening round that featured Nelly Korda making a 10 on her third hole and only four players barely beating par. Saso had three big par putts to start the back nine at Lancaster Country Club, rolled in two medium-length birdie putts toward the end of her round and finished with three putts from the collar of the 18th green for bogey and a 2-under 68. The leading 10 play...

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Former champion Yuka Saso leaned on her putter to survive a brutally tough start to the U.S. Womens Open on Thursday, an opening round that featured Nelly Korda making a 10 on her third hole and only four players barely beating par.

Yuka Saso is leading the U.S. Womens Open with a 68 on a day of survival at Lancaster Country Club. The course is playing so difficult that only four players

LANCASTER >> Nelly Korda entered Thursday at Lancaster Country Club as the largest betting favorite heading into any U.S. Open since Tiger Woods in 2000. That one was held at Pebble Beach, you may recall, and Woods wound up winning by an astonishing 15 strokes.Nothing like that is going to happen for Korda at the […]

Yuka Saso, the 2021 champion, shoots a 2-under 68 for the low score of the day

A half-dozen players reached 2-under on Thursday at some point, but only one was able to hold on: Japan's Yuka Saso.

Nelly Korda carded a 10 on an early-round par-3 hole, hitting it into a creek a total of three times, on the way to a 10-over round of 80 was good for a tie for 139th place.

Among those who struggled was world number one Nelly Korda.