RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – From the backdrop of the Santa Rosa Mountains to the top of 50-foot palms waving gently in the wind, Mission Hills looks like it does every spring when it hosts the best women in the world for the first major of the LPGA Tour season.Except this is September.A slight break in the heat means it will be only in the low 100s for the ANA Inspiration, enough for the LPGA to take the extraordinary precaution of allowing caddies to ride in carts.
The first major was last month at Royal Troon for the Women’s British Open. And the best in the world? Not all of them are here.That starts with Jin Young Ko, the defending champion and No.