The Chargers opened exhibition play Saturday night time in opposition to Seattle at SoFi Stadium.

Here’s a recreation recap from Week 1 of the preseason:

Easton Stick, AJ Finley, Jaret Patterson and Scott Matlock have been the Chargers captains. The Bolts opened the sport with a 43-yard kickoff return from Jaelen Gill to their very own 45-yard line. However the offense went three-and-out as Seattle took over at its personal 12-yard line. The Seahawks moved the chains as soon as earlier than rookie edge rusher Tre’Mon Morris-Brash pressured a third-down incompletion by hitting Sam Howell’s arm. The Chargers took over at their very own 27 however went three-and-out once more. The Seahawks have been ultimately pressured to punt however pinned the Bolts at their very own 2-yard line. The Chargers as soon as once more went three-and-out as Seattle took over and superior into the pink zone as the primary quarter got here to a detailed.

PARIS — Jayson Tatum mentioned his restricted position taking part in for Crew USA this summer season is not going to have an effect on his determination to play for the nationwide workforce sooner or later.

Tatum didn’t play in two of the six video games within the Olympics, together with the semifinal victory over Serbia on Thursday. He then got here off the bench within the first quarter and performed 11 minutes in Crew USA’s victory within the gold medal sport Saturday in opposition to France, scoring two factors with three rebounds.

“It was a troublesome private expertise on the court docket, however I am not going to make any determination off feelings,” Tatum mentioned. “If you happen to requested me proper now if I used to be going to play in 2028 — it’s 4 years from now and I [would have] to take time and take into consideration that. So I am not going to make any determination based mostly off how this expertise was or how I felt individually.”

Crew USA coach Steve Kerr mentioned repeatedly his alternative to not play Tatum was not based mostly on efficiency however matchups. Tatum missed each video games in opposition to Serbia, the place Kerr typically performed an even bigger lineup. He additionally was usually taking part in behind LeBron James and Kevin Durant, who performed on the second unit for the primary 5 video games till beginning within the ultimate.

Kerr sat starter Joel Embiid for a sport in opposition to a smaller South Sudan. He sat Derrick White throughout the gold medal sport. Tyrese Haliburton did not play in three video games. Tatum mentioned a number of instances after the sport that he was thrilled with successful his second gold medal and did not need his state of affairs to remove from the workforce’s success.

However he additionally acknowledged, as a three-time All-NBA participant and lately topped NBA champion, he was listening to lots about it from dwelling.

“Lots of people textual content me and reached out and mentioned ‘Ensure that this fuels you,’ which I respect. There’s lots of people that care about me,” Tatum mentioned. “I believe the powerful half is sure, you need to use issues to gasoline you, however I am nonetheless human.

“…A part of being within the second, I’ve sacrificed and put lots into this sport and work actually, actually exhausting. So within the second it’s powerful. You are not essentially apprehensive about fueling me for November or [whenever] the season is, however like I mentioned, it is one thing I am going to remove from this and study from this expertise. It is positively difficult and humbling on the identical time.”

He was the final one coming off the courtroom Thursday, and Joel Embiid made positive these inside Bercy Area had been conscious he was nonetheless there. 

After the USA pulled off its dramatic, comeback win over Serbia within the 2024 Paris Olympics males’s basketball semifinals, organising an Olympic closing in opposition to France Saturday, Embiid celebrated by embracing the controversy his presence on the American roster created for these Video games. 

The Philadelphia 76ers star approached middle courtroom dancing to the beat of the music taking part in over the constructing’s loudspeakers. Upon seeing teammate Anthony Edwards, Embiid then made a gesture supposed to taunt the group. The boos which have adopted Embiid all through the Olympic match intensified. He’s making ready for them to achieve a crescendo when Staff USA performs France in entrance of its house followers with a gold medal on the road in males’s basketball.    

As a result of Embiid might be  – and within the minds of many French folks, needs to be – taking part in for France.

Here is what it’s best to know concerning the feud between Embiid and France and why the previous NBA MVP turned the heel French crowds like to boo on the Paris Video games:

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The place is Joel Embiid from?

Embiid was born in Yaounde, Cameroon on March 16, 1994. He didn’t begin taking part in basketball till he was 15 years previous. He moved to the USA a 12 months later after NBA participant and fellow Cameroon native Luc Mbah A Moute observed him at a basketball camp in Africa.

Embiid has performed within the states ever since then, rising as a five-star recruit at The Rock Faculty in Gainesville, Florida, per his 247Sports Composite profile. He then performed one season at Kansas. Embiid was chosen by the 76ers with the No. 3 general choose within the 2014 NBA draft and has performed in Philadelphia throughout his whole skilled profession.

Is Joel Embiid a U.S. citizen?

Sure, however not earlier than turning into a citizen in two different international locations.

Embiid additionally had the chance to play for France or Cameroon within the Olympics. He gained citizenship to France in Could 2022 by means of a clause there that permits naturalization to a foreigner whose naturalization is “of remarkable curiosity.” Embiid then revealed in September 2022 that he had additionally change into a United States citizen, and cited his son because the motivation.

Why Joel Embiied is being booed at 2024 Paris Olympics

Embiid’s resolution to play for the USA on the Paris Olympics was a sore topic in France lengthy earlier than the Video games started.

When Embiid was granted French citizenship, hypothesis instantly adopted he was planning to characterize France two years later when it hosted the Olympics. There was the potential to crew with Victor Wembanyama and Rudy Gobert. Embiid has mentioned there was by no means an settlement that he would play for France in change for gaining citizenship, however did reveal not too long ago that French president Emmanuel Macron tried to recruit him.

Former NBA participant Boris Diaw, who at the moment serves as the final supervisor of the French nationwide crew in males’s basketball, insisted to The Athletic that Embiid approached a number of occasions through the 2021-22 NBA season about his curiosity in taking part in for France. When France beat the USA 83-76 through the 2020 Olympics, snapping Staff USA’s 25-game profitable streak in Olympic competitors, Embiid even tweeted, “Allez les Bleus” in celebration.

“Joel got here to us and mentioned that he needed to play worldwide basketball, he mentioned he needed to win, and he mentioned he needed to play for France and he needed to win with France,” Diaw informed The Athletic. “So we listened to him.”

This led French officers to bypass the everyday routes to achieve citizenship. Embiid didn’t have direct French heritage, nor had he lived in France for at the least two years. However he and his son had been granted a French passport due to what France might accomplish on the Olympics with him.

A 12 months later, when Embiid introduced he had dedicated to play for Staff USA in Paris, he mentioned his household’s connection to the USA was the figuring out issue.

“It was not straightforward,” Embiid wrote in a put up on X (previously Twitter) explaining his resolution in October 2023. “I’m blessed to name Cameroon, France, and the USA house. “After speaking to my household, I knew it needed to be Staff USA. I wish to play with my brothers within the league. I wish to play for my followers as a result of they’ve been unbelievable because the day I got here right here. However most of all, I wish to honor my son who was born within the US. I need my boy to know I performed my first Olympics for him.”

Embiid’s option to play for the USA was not met kindly by the French. 

“Staff USA, with him, who can beat you? Come on, no person,” French Basketball Federation president Jean-Pierre Siutat informed The Athletic. “That is a straightforward manner for him to get an Olympic medal.”

Frederic Weis — the previous French nationwide participant who infamously received dunked on by Vince Carter through the 2000 Olympics — took it much more personally.

“I hate him for the issues that he did. I believe he does not have any respect for France and likewise for all of the people who find themselves asking for a French passport and do not get it. And below the pretext that he’s an incredible athlete, he received it,” Weis mentioned in April, through Eurohoops.internet. “I discover it scandalous, I discover it embarrassing. I do not care about his excuses, as a result of they’re his phrases, and his phrases imply nothing.

“I’d take away from him the French nationality and I’d ban him from coming into France,” Weis added. “You’ll not play within the Olympics. You’ll come to the airport with Staff USA and we are going to say, ‘You do not have the appropriate to enter the territory, go to your private home. You might be Cameroonian, you’re American, you aren’t French, go away.'”

For the reason that Olympics started, Embiid has been booed persistently by the followers — when he is in pregame warmups, when he is launched and when he is touched the ball throughout video games — in each Lille, France for the group stage, in addition to in Paris throughout Staff USA’s wins over Brazil and Serbia to achieve Saturday’s gold medal sport in opposition to France.

WOLKEN:Winter is coming for US males’s basketball. Serbia sport exhibits it is nearly right here.

What Joel Embiid mentioned on the Paris Olympics

Embiid’s response to the controversy has diversified.

Through the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony, Staff USA teammate Tyrese Haliburton jokingly introduced up the controversy in a video posted on his Instagram account.

“Give your passport again,” Haliburton mentioned.

“I am American, man,” Embiid responded, waving a miniature American flag from the boat carrying the USA delegation of athletes alongside the Seine River through the parade of countries.

Embiid mentioned final week when the subject got here up once more that he picked the USA as a result of he felt extra snug with the Individuals and, “these guys needed me.”

“Lots of people see (the boos) as hate, I see it as love and respect,” he informed reporters in Paris final week. “If I wasn’t an OK basketball participant, I’d not obtain that kind of therapy. So I see myself as being blessed and that’s how I work together with that kind of crowd and that kind of stuff. I’m blessed to be right here. I’ve seen worse. I’ve performed in worse environments.”

“Taking part in in Philly, they boo their very own guys greater than opponents,” Embiid added. “Generally it appears like our followers are extra in opposition to us once they’re imagined to be in opposition to the opponent. However like I mentioned, it’s all love. It’s all as a result of they wish to push you, need you to do higher. Similar to with this crowd, it makes me wish to be higher and do extra and do no matter it takes to win.”

Embiid steered Friday that he would have performed for Cameroon if his native nation had certified for these Olympics, and that he would contemplate doing so sooner or later. However since Embiid has performed for the USA in a world competitors, he would want a waiver from FIBA and USA Basketball to play for one more nation on the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

For now, he is able to play the position of villain as soon as extra in entrance of what is anticipated to be one other raucous French crowd.

“I do know myself. I’m going to work together myself and I’m going to take pleasure in it,” Embiid mentioned Friday. “They’re going to boo me. I’m going to return at them … and so it’s going to be enjoyable.”

What Staff USA is saying about Joel Embiid boos

“That’s all you are able to do is snicker about it,” Staff USA coach Steve Kerr informed reporters in Paris, in response to the Related Press. “He’s achieved a superb job simply making mild of it. And his teammates clearly have his again. It’s all a part of it. I’m positive he knew this was coming. And what I like is that after the French followers would boo, you possibly can hear the American followers cheer. So, everyone appears to be having some enjoyable with it.”

“It’s OK. He’s with us. Be mad. We don’t care,” U.S. guard Anthony Edwards mentioned. “He selected us over y’all, so it’s all good.”

Joel Embiid Olympic stats

Embiid lastly got here by means of for Staff USA with 19 essential factors in opposition to Serbia within the semifinals after an in any other case underwhelming efficiency. Charles Barkley accused him of being off form throughout an look on Paul George’s podcast. He’s averaging 13 factors and 4 rebounds over 5 video games in Paris.  

The way to watch USA vs. France in Paris Olympics gold medal sport

• Date: Aug. 10, 2024
• Time: 3:30 p.m. ET
• Location: Accor Area, Paris
• TV: NBC
• Streaming: Peacock, nbcolympics.com, fuboTV

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Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura praised present Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz whereas talking with MSNBC’s Rev. Al Sharpton on Saturday — particularly for the Democratic VP decide’s push to legalize marijuana within the state. “Twenty-some years in the past, I attempted to legalize hashish marijuana. I lit the match,” the unbiased politician started.

“Nicely, the match simmered for 20 years and at last turned a flame, and Gov. Walz referred to as me and he stated, ‘Gov. Ventura, it’s worthwhile to be in my workplace Monday at 11. I’m going to signal within the legislation ending the prohibition of marijuana in Minnesota. It was your thought. You’re nonetheless alive. You have to be there to take credit score for this since you’re the one who executed it,’” Ventura continued.

“That’s the sort of individual Tim Walz is,” Ventura warmly concluded.

The previous Minnesota governor, a army vet himself, additionally defended Walz’s army service in opposition to assaults from GOP vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance and the Republican Celebration, who’ve criticized Walz for retiring after 24 years of service.

“Before everything, any level after 20 years, you may retire once you wish to,” Ventura defined. “Second, Vance is lacking the purpose. What he should be asking is that this: why is the Nationwide Guard being shipped out and combating in overseas wars and different lands? That isn’t their position.”

“Their position is to be right here in our nation defending us inside our personal nation. That’s why they’re referred to as ‘the Nationwide Guard,’” he continued, exasperated.

Ventura blamed the problem on former President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. In the course of the Iraq Struggle, “They couldn’t deliver again a draft. It could be political suicide. So what did they do? Bush signed an govt order now sending our Nationwide Guard over on the planet fight zones. That’s ridiculous.”

Sharpton and Ventura additionally spoke in regards to the elephant within the room: Donald Trump, and their very own previous friendships with him. Sharpton requested if Trump is identical person who Ventura was as soon as associates with — a query the previous governor replied to with a convincing no.

“He isn’t the man that got here to me again in ’98 after I received,” Ventura stated. Ventura even recruited Trump for the Reform Celebration in an earlier potential run for president. “Again then he was rather more liberal, however it’s worthwhile to perceive, Donald Trump is for Donald Trump, and Donald Trump goes to do no matter it’s that helps Donald Trump.”

“So he appeared the state of affairs over. He clearly noticed that he might take over the Republican Celebration. So he modified his views. You understand, he went from pro-choice now to, you recognize, no rights for ladies’s replica. He’s gone far proper. He’s making an attempt to say he’s now a non secular individual. Nicely, to me, for those who’re going to be a non secular individual, it’s a must to dwell it,” Ventura continued.

Ventura sarcastically famous that he, as an atheist/agnostic, thinks he’s extra spiritual than Trump.

“And Donald Trump hardly lives it. I imply, he’s had a number of wives. I typically snigger and assume, what would the Republicans have stated if Barack Obama would have had a number of wives and a number of youngsters and ran for president, like Donald Trump? What would the Republican response be to that? It could have been horrifying to see what Republicans would have stated if that will have been Barack Obama.”

You’ll be able to watch the interview with Jesse Ventura within the video above.

Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid is a gold medalist. Because the beginning heart for Workforce USA, he helped the People earn a 98-87 win over France on Saturday afternoon for the crew’s fifth straight gold medal. Embiid solely had 4 factors, three rebounds, and two assists, however the large fella performed a task.

Embiid was in a position to make defensive stops on French famous person Victor Wembanyama with the gold medal on the road and made positive he was there to make large stops on the defensive finish. One has to provide credit score to Los Angeles Lakers star Anthony Davis for the defensive performs he made–four blocks–but Embiid deserves a ton of credit score for his work on that finish of the ground towards each Wemby and Rudy Gobert.

Afterward, NBA Twitter gave its finest reactions to the chief of the Sixers successful his first gold medal and getting the job carried out for Workforce USA:

This text initially appeared on Sixers Wire: NBA Twitter reacts to Joel Embiid successful gold medal for Workforce USA

Lydia Ko accomplished her Olympic medal assortment on Saturday with probably the most beneficial of of all of them, a gold medal that places the 27-year-old Kiwi into the LPGA Corridor of Fame.

Ko constructed a five-shot lead on the again 9 at Le Golf Nationwide as her closest pursuers all collapsed, after which needed to grasp on till the very finish. Her lead down to at least one, Ko made a 7-foot birdie putt for a 1-under 71 and a two-shot victory.

Ko gained the silver medal in Rio de Janeiro. She gained the bronze in Tokyo. The lacking one turned out to be extra beneficial than its weight in gold. The victory pushed her profession complete to 27 factors for the LPGA Corridor of Fame, one of many strictest standards for any shrine.

Esther Henseleit of Germany completed birdie-birdie for a 66 to make Ko work for it. She wound up with the silver. Xiyu Lin of China birdied the ultimate gap for a 69 to win the bronze.

Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., threatened halfway by way of the ultimate spherical however light with two bogeys on the again 9 and closed with a 1-under-par 71.

The 13-time LPGA Tour winner fired a 67 on Friday to provide herself an opportunity within the remaining spherical. She ended up tied for thirteenth place with a four-round complete of 3-under-par 285.

“I gave myself plenty of good alternatives,” mentioned Henderson. “If I had made two or three completely different putts over the course of the spherical, the momentum may need been a bit extra in my favour, and it may be a distinct story for me standing right here. However, total, it was an excellent battle these final two days, and it was good to be again within the motion.

“It looks like I performed actually horrible, however I nonetheless shot one-under [on Saturday]. It was form of a combined bag. I hit plenty of nice photographs, however generally they only did not prove in addition to I assumed they had been going to.”

WATCH l Henderson, of Smiths Falls, Ont., finishes in tie for thirteenth place:

Brooke Henderson’s Olympic medal drive stalls on again 9 as she finishes tied for thirteenth

Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., completed in a tie for thirteenth place at 3-under total on the Olympic ladies’s golf match in Paris.

Alena Sharp of Hamilton (73) completed tied for forty second place at 9-over-par 297.

Henderson began sturdy Saturday by rolling in a 12-foot birdie putt on the second gap. She chunked an eagle chip and settled for par on the third earlier than getting scorching across the flip.

The 26-year-old Canadian wanted to maintain urgent and hope for slightly assist elsewhere on the leaderboard.

A cool putter although killed any probability of momentum. Henderson completed in a tie for thirteenth place.

“Any week on tour, a top-10 or a top-15 consequence and also you’re fairly joyful,” Phoenix mentioned. “Right here it is powerful. It is form of one, two (or) three.”

The 43-year-old Sharp, in the meantime, talked about earlier within the week that this can be her final Olympic Video games.

“I attempted to only actually take pleasure in at present and take all of it in,” she mentioned.

Korda, Zhang, Metraux battle

For Nelly Korda, Rose Zhang, Morgane Metraux and so many others, it was a day to neglect. All of them had been in vary early. All of them fell again with huge blunders that paved the best way for Ko.

That is the newest prize in a exceptional profession for Ko, who gained her first LPGA title as a 15-year-old newbie and rose to No. 1 on the earth for the primary time at 17. She started this 12 months with a victory, leaving her one level wanting the Corridor.

To cross the road with Olympic gold?

She delivered a hell of a efficiency, ending at 10-under 278 on a course that introduced gnarly tough and water on 10 of the holes, most notably on the finish when the strain was best.

Ko turns into the thirty fifth participant to qualify for the LPGA Corridor of Fame, and the second-youngest behind Australian nice Karrie Webb to earn the required 27 factors — two factors for every of her two majors, one level for her different 18 LPGA victories, one level for profitable LPGA Participant of the Yr (twice) and for the Vare Trophy for lowest scoring common (twice).

And one huge level for Olympic gold.

Ko wanted solely two putts from brief vary to win, and when the putt fell, she stepped away along with her hand over her mouth and it wasn’t lengthy earlier than she started to sob.

The ultimate spherical was more durable than it wanted to be. Ko was forward of a decent chasing pack when it immediately, shockingly, got here undone for everybody however her.

Ruoning Yin of China, who received to inside one shot of the lead, bogeyed two of three holes after she made the flip. Hannah Inexperienced was two behind till her tee shot went left into the water on the tenth for a double bogey, ruining her daring comeback from a 77 within the opening spherical.

Miyu Yamashita and Rose Zhang every performed tennis on the ninth inexperienced, chipping from one facet of the inexperienced to the opposite, forwards and backwards, till each made double bogey.

And similar to that, Ko was 5 away from the sector and the one drama seemed to be a wild race for the opposite two medals. At one level, 12 gamers had been separated by two photographs in what amounted to the B-Flight.

If solely it had been that straightforward for Ko.

She was cruising alongside, birdie seems to be on each gap, till she discovered the water on the thirteenth for a double bogey. That lower her result in three photographs, nonetheless loads protected till Henseleit made Ko performed her finest down the stretch.

Ko immediately had a one-shot lead and was enjoying to the fats of the inexperienced, twice leaving herself nervy 3 1/2-foot par putts. She made all of them till coming to the par-5 18th, the best Saturday at Le Golf Nationwide, needing solely par to reap all of the rewards.

She completed one shot out of the rostrum with a 73, together with Inexperienced (69), Bianca Pagdanganan of the Philippines (68) and Ladies’s PGA championship winner Amy Yang (69).

Korda, the No. 1 participant in ladies’s golf and the gold medallist on the Tokyo Video games, was proper there within the combine till the closing stretch received her once more. This time, she hit wedge within the water on the fifteenth for a triple bogey. She closed with a 75. For the week, Korda had a triple bogey on the fifteenth, a quadruple bogey on the sixteenth and a pair of three-putts bogeys on the seventeenth.

“I performed fairly strong till the final couple holes,” she mentioned. “Once more, I really feel like that was the story of my week. Apart from that I performed some strong golf.”

Inexperienced was 12 photographs out of the lead after her opening 77. She was two photographs behind, in place for the rostrum, when she made the flip. Her final probability was a birdie on the 18th, however she drove into the tough and hit a weak wedge to the inexperienced.

Zhang closed with a 74 with two birdies on the final three holes. Metraux, who shared the lead with Ko going into the ultimate day, did not make birdie till the fifteenth gap and shot 79.

On the finish, the stage, the rostrum — and the shrine — all belonged to Ko.

20-time LPGA Tour winner turns into thirty fifth member, becoming a member of an illustrious record of honorees

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Aug. 10, 2024 – Together with her gold medal on the 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris, Lydia Ko has reached the 27 factors essential for induction into the LPGA Corridor of Fame. The 27-year-old New Zealand native achieved this milestone by way of a stellar profession that features LPGA Corridor of Fame factors earned for 20 LPGA Tour victories, highlighted by two main championship titles, two Rolex LPGA Participant of the Yr awards, twice incomes the Glenna Collett Vare Trophy for the season’s lowest scoring common and now the Olympic gold medal. Ko turns into the thirty fifth particular person enshrined within the LPGA Corridor of Fame, becoming a member of the ranks of essentially the most achieved and influential athletes within the historical past of ladies’s golf.

Ko is now a three-time Olympic medalist, taking silver on the 2016 Summer season Video games in Brazil and bronze on the 2020 Summer season Video games in Japan. On the LPGA Tour, Ko has amassed 20 LPGA Tour victories since 2012, together with main titles on the 2015 Amundi Evian Championship and the 2016 Chevron Championship. She earned 18 of her titles since her rookie season in 2014, having received the 2012 and 2013 CPKC Ladies’s Open as an novice previous to changing into an LPGA Tour Member. Ko was the 2015 and 2022 Rolex LPGA Participant of the Yr and received the Glenna Collett Vare Trophy, awarded to the participant with the season’s lowest scoring common, in 2021 and 2022.

Ko has seven wins on the Women European Tour, 5 wins on the WPGA Tour of Australasia and one win on the Korean LPGA Tour. She additionally partnered with Jason Day to win the inaugural Grant Thornton Invitational, a mixed-team unofficial occasion that includes PGA Tour and LPGA Tour stars, in December 2023.

Ko has set quite a few Youngest Ever marks in her profession. On Aug. 19, 2012, she turned the youngest winner in LPGA Tour historical past when she received the CPKC Ladies’s Open at 15 years, 4 months and a pair of days. She turned the youngest participant, male or feminine, to succeed in World No. 1 when she ascended to the highest of the Rolex Ladies’s World Golf Rankings on Feb. 2, 2015, at 17 years, 9 months and 9 days. Later that yr, Ko turned the youngest feminine main winner when she captured the 2015 Amundi Evian Championship at 18 years, 4 months and 20 days. She then turned the youngest feminine ever to win two main championships at 18 years, 11 months and 9 days following her win on the 2016 Chevron Championship.

Now at 27 years, 3 months and 17 days, Ko turns into the youngest participant to be inducted into the LPGA Corridor of Fame beneath its present standards. Previous to March 2022, induction standards included the requirement {that a} participant be energetic on Tour for 10 years. Karrie Webb reached the 27-point threshold at age 25 along with her victory on the 2000 U.S. Ladies’s Open however didn’t attain the 10-year requirement till age 30 in 2005.

“Lydia’s qualification into the LPGA Corridor of Fame is not only a milestone in her extraordinary profession; it is a testomony to her generational expertise, having constructed an unmatched resume of success at such a younger age,” mentioned LPGA Commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan. “Past her unprecedented achievements on the golf course, Lydia has impressed so many by way of her perseverance, kindness, generosity, and dedication to leaving the sport higher than she discovered it. She is a job mannequin to us all and notably to younger women, to whom she has proven what a real champion is, in sport and in life. Cementing her place within the Corridor of Fame by successful the gold medal right here in Paris is iconic, and it’s one thing we are going to all keep in mind for a very long time. We’re immensely happy with Lydia’s achievements and the influence she’s made on the world of golf and in world sports activities.”

The newest inductees of the LPGA Corridor of Fame have been Lorena Ochoa and eight of the LPGA Tour’s authentic Founding Members. Ochoa had earned sufficient factors to qualify when she retired in 2010 after eight seasons however didn’t obtain enshrinement till the 10-year requirement was lifted in 2022. These 9 girls have been honored in March 2022 for his or her years with the LPGA Tour. Previous to that, Inbee Park was the final participant enshrined within the LPGA Corridor of Fame when she earned the honour in 2016. 

To qualify for the LPGA Corridor of Fame, members of the LPGA Tour should meet a minimal level threshold of 27 factors, earned by the next standards:

1. Will need to have received/been awarded not less than one of many following titles/honors
   1. An LPGA Tour main championship
   2. Glenna Collett Vare Trophy 
   3. Rolex Participant of the Yr 
2. Will need to have gathered a complete of 27 factors
   1. One level for every LPGA Tour official match win
   2. Two factors for every LPGA Tour main match win
   3. One level for every Glenna Collett Vare Trophy honor earned
   4. One level for every Rolex Participant of the Yr honor earned
   5. One level for an Olympic gold medal