RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — If the LPGA and PGA Tour ever resurrect a team event, watch out for the pair from Fulton, Mississippi. As of last week, the town of 3,500 has produced both PGA Tour and LPGA champions in Chad Ramey and Ally Ewing. The two friends grew up together at Fulton Country Club, a hilly nine-hole course that tips at 5,700 yards for two loops.
Ramey, a rookie on the PGA Tour, won last week’s Corales Puntacana Championship in his 16th career start. Ewing is a two-time winner on the LPGA and is currently tied for fifth at the LPGA’s first major of the year, the Chevron Championship. She’s three strokes back of leader Hinako Shibuno after a 4-under 68.
Ewing was on the range warming up for a practice round at Mission Hills Country Club on Sunday when she saw that Ramey was in the hunt after four consecutive birdies on Nos. 13-16. By the time she got to the fairway on the second hole, he’d won.
