{"id":149696,"date":"2025-08-16T05:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T05:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/149696\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T05:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T05:20:09","slug":"juli-inkster-65-nearly-sets-lpga-record-misses-cut-by-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/149696\/","title":{"rendered":"Juli Inkster, 65, nearly sets LPGA record, misses cut by 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 15, 2025, 10:03 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>PORTLAND, Ore. &#8212; Juli Inkster went to the Standard Portland Classic to face some competition ahead of the U.S. Senior Women&#8217;s Open. The 65-year-old Hall of Famer nearly wound up setting an LPGA record.<\/p>\n<p>Inkster opened with a 69 and was poised to become the oldest player in LPGA history to make a 36-hole cut until consecutive bogeys on her back nine led to a 74. She was at 1-under 143 and ended up missing the weekend cut by a stroke.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/story\/_\/id\/45990992\/jeongeun-lee5-atop-lpga-tour-standard-portland-classic\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/r1532355_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>JoAnne Carner was 64 when she made the cut in the 2004 Chick Fil-A Charity Championship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I frigging love JoAnne Carner,&#8221; Inkster said. &#8220;Yeah, just kind of means that I have a passion for the game. I love the game. You know, I&#8217;m really happy I played this week. Kind of when I signed up was kind of like, &#8216;What are you doing?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was free, I was out there with <a data-player-guid=\"2120dd9c-7faf-0a9a-b49d-acbfafeaa3ae\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/10429\/hannah-green\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hannah Green<\/a> and Stacy [Lewis] and had a great time. Just love watching the young kids swing. It&#8217;s so impressive. I think the game is in a really good shape and happy to be here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Inkster was competing at an LPGA event for the first time since 2022. She was asked what it was like when players recognized her.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Juli Inkster, 65, was one shot from becoming the oldest player in LPGA history to make the cut.\u00a0Orlando Ramirez\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most of them think I am JoAnne Carner,&#8221; Inkster said.<\/p>\n<p>She was disappointed at her finish, especially the way she struggled off the tee toward the end. Along with the two bogeys, she said she played the final two par-5s sloppily. Still, there were few regrets. The U.S. Senior Women&#8217;s Open is next week at San Diego Country Club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it was really good for me to play, whether I win or lose next week, whatever,&#8221; Inkster said. &#8220;I&#8217;m glad I put myself out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 15, 2025, 10:03 PM ET PORTLAND, Ore. &#8212; Juli Inkster went to the Standard Portland Classic to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-149696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115036764509358337","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}