Since Se Ri Pak won the 1998 U.S. Women’s Open and inspired a generation of young girls to take up the game of golf in South Korea, women’s golf has been dominated by those who followed in her footsteps. That wave of young girls arrived on the world stage with Inbee Park’s 2008 U.S. Women’s Open victory and since then only three Americans have won their national championship.
Can the U.S. players make it four Sunday? On Thursday, there was a sea of red, white and blue at the top of the leaderboard at the U.S. Women’s Open at Champions Golf Club in Houston.