The LPGA’s Drive On Championships are one-off events created by the tour to help give players more events to play in, since the coronavirus pandemic affected so many overseas events the past couple of years.
So there are in effect no “defending champions” but two of the past winners of the three previous Drive On Championships spoke Wednesday ahead of the fourth edition, which starts Thursday at Crown Colony Golf & Country Club in Fort Myers.
Austin Ernst won by five last year at Golden Ocala in Ocala, and Ally Ewing won at Reynolds Lake Oconee in Georgia in 2020. Danielle Kang won the first Drive On, at Inverness earlier in 2020, and was originally in the field this week but withdrew over the weekend.
