Top 5 Players Not Making the Cut at Chevron Championship

The LPGA Tour is at the halfway mark during its first major, the Chevron Championship.

Nelly Korda is unbelievably in contention to win her fifth straight tournament, and young players crowd the top of the leaderboard.

The Top 73 and ties made the weekend while the other half of the field was sent packing. Some of the top-ranked women in golf were among those who missed the cut at The Club at Charlton Woods in The Woodlands, TX.

It was windy, with gusts upwards of 20 miles per hour, giving the ladies some trouble. That led to some of the best players on the LPGA to have a short week.

Meanwhile, defending champion Lilia Vu withdrew from the tournament ahead of her round on Thursday due to a back injury.

So, here are the five biggest names to miss the cut at the LPGA’s first major championship.

Rose Zhang

Rose Zhang went 74-75 through the first two days of play to finish at 5-over for the tournament. After finishing in the top 10 in three of the four majors she played in last year, it is a shock to see the young phenom head home early.

A double bogey on the 10th was detrimental, but the Chevron rookie couldn’t score. On Friday, she recorded 14 pars and just one birdie. Zhang missed the cut by three shots. Not getting birdie putts to drop on that second day cost her.

Lexi Thompson

Lexi Thompson struggled on Thursday, posting a 6-over 78 as she made bogey or worse on her first six holes of the tournament.

Thompson shot four strokes better on Friday with her 2-over 74, but like Zhang, she struggled to score. She finished at 8-over in the tournament, recording one double, nine bogeys and three birdies in two days.

Leona Maguire

Coming off a runner-up finish to Nelly Korda at Shadow Creek for the T-Mobile LPGA Match Play event, Leona Maguire missed the cut. On Thursday, Maguire shot even par to sit above the cut line.