Rhodes excited to make major debut after three wins in debut LET season

English golfer Mimi Rhodes is eager to launch her major career at this week’s KPMG Women’s PGA Championship in Frisco, Texas after a blistering start to her professional career.

After winning three titles on the Ladies European Tour (LET), the 23-year-old from Bath was given a special invitation to play the year’s third major, which is worth a record of $ 12 million (£9 million).

Nelly Korda, the first golf course in Texas to host this competition, will be playing alongside Rhodes and the world’s best players on the Fields Ranch East course, which will host the event.

After playing for Great Britain and Ireland in the team that won the Curtis Cup at Sunningdale last year, she made a professional move. In addition, she won the recent Dutch Open, Joburg Ladies Open, and the New South Wales Open, among other things.

Rhodes would not have believed anyone who had suggested that she would become a pro athlete as soon as she had joined the pro ranks. She said, “I would have told them that they were crazy and lying.”

How much I’ve accomplished in such a short amount of time is unbelievable. I just want to make the most of the process and my presence.

Stacy Lewis, the former US Solheim Cup skipper, received two sponsor invitations, one of which was issued by the organizers. Rhodes describes it as “one of the best messages of my life” and discovered it a fortnight ago.

In the 156-player lineup, she joins fellow Englishwomen Charley Hull, Georgia Hall, Jodi Ewart Shadoff, and Gemma Dryburgh from Scotland. Being a major, Rhodes said, “I knew it would be quite difficult to enter the field.”

“I guess it was a shock, undoubtedly. but also demonstrated to me that I can compete with other LPGA players on the same level and provided me with the assurance that my game can compete with the best in the world.

A player who has already ranked among the top 100 has experienced a meteoric rise. The world number 89 reportedly said, “Everything kind of happened so quickly.

“I haven’t really had time to concentrate on anything,” she said. When you return home, club members from your club approach you and ask for pictures.

You sort of come to terms with the fact that you know you’ve accomplished a lot and have been playing a lot of golf.

On a par-72 course measuring 6, 604 yards, India’s Aditi Ashok and European Solheim Cup player Esther Henseleit will play at 13:55 BST.

Rhodes said, “I really like it.” It is in incredibly good condition. It’s a long course with a lot of slopes but a lot of room for improvement.

At 20:17 BST, Hull joins Korea’s Jin Young Ko and Japan’s Ayake Furue as late starters. The Englishwoman is ranked 17th overall and seeking her first victory in her 58th major start.

Korda and Maja Stark tied for second place at the most recent US Women’s Open, bringing her to the championship. In a season that has so far been wonless, she came in second.

The 26-year-old insists she will be ready to challenge for her third major title after suffering a neck spasm in a practice round on Monday.

Korda acknowledged that with the injury I sustained last year, I now feel my neck a little bit more than it used to, which I had previously experienced.

With her three-weekly success at Erin Hills, Stark won one of the big five titles, becoming the first European to do so in eight majors.

The 25-year-old Swede claims that JJ Spaun’s dramatic victory in the men’s equivalent last Sunday still had an impact on her emotions.