PORTLAND, Ore. — Juli Inkster went to the Customary Portland Traditional to face some competitors forward of the U.S. Senior Ladies’s Open. The 65-year-old Corridor of Famer practically wound up setting an LPGA file.
Inkster opened with a 69 and was poised to grow to be the oldest participant in LPGA historical past to make a 36-hole minimize till consecutive bogeys on her again 9 led to a 74. She was at 1-under 143 and ended up lacking the weekend minimize by a stroke.
JoAnne Carner was 64 when she made the minimize within the 2004 Chick Fil-A Charity Championship.
“I frigging love JoAnne Carner,” Inkster mentioned. “Yeah, simply type of implies that I’ve a ardour for the sport. I really like the sport. You recognize, I am actually comfortable I performed this week. Sort of after I signed up was type of like, ‘What are you doing?’
“I used to be free, I used to be on the market with Hannah Green and Stacy [Lewis] and had a good time. Simply love watching the younger children swing. It is so spectacular. I feel the sport is in a extremely fine condition and comfortable to be right here.”
Inkster was competing at an LPGA occasion for the primary time since 2022. She was requested what it was like when gamers acknowledged her.
“Most of them assume I’m JoAnne Carner,” Inkster mentioned.
She was disenchanted at her end, particularly the way in which she struggled off the tee towards the tip. Together with the 2 bogeys, she mentioned she performed the ultimate two par-5s sloppily. Nonetheless, there have been few regrets. The U.S. Senior Ladies’s Open is subsequent week at San Diego Nation Membership.
“I feel it was actually good for me to play, whether or not I win or lose subsequent week, no matter,” Inkster mentioned. “I am glad I put myself on the market.”
