Mar7 Lopez
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Women’s golf legend Nancy Lopez knows she might not be able to win on the LPGA Tour as a 50-year-old, but that’s not going to stop her from trying. Lopez said she plans to play five or six LPGA Tour events this year, starting with the $2.6 million Ginn Open in Reunion, Florida, on April 12-15.
She’s played in only 11 tour events since 2002, and she hasn’t had a top-10 finish since 1997 but that hasn’t stopped her from taking a pop shot at teen sensation Michelle Wie. Lopez reckons the teen phenom should prove she can beat the best in the women’s game before she tries to compete against men. “I think she should be winning by now,” Lopez said.
“Even if she played amateur golf for a while, I think she probably would have won an LPGA event by now. I don’t think she’ll win a PGA event.”
She said she was inspired to come back after captaining the winning US. team in the 2005 Solheim Cup, which pits Europe’s top women golfers against their American counterparts. She was the face of women’s golf for most of two decades and relishes her role as one of the game’s great ambassadors.
