WASHINGTON, D.C. — Brittany Lincicome was her usual breezy self at a Tuesday press conference for the Barbasol Championship, but she knows her nerves will be cranking Thursday, when she tees off alongside PGA Tour players with history on the line.
No woman has made the cut in a men’s professional event since Babe Zaharias did it twice in 1945. Lincicome will attempt the feat at Keene Trace Golf Club in Nicholasville, Ky.
Lincicome, 32, an eight-time winner on the LPGA Tour, will tee off at 9:59 a.m. ET Thursday alongside Sam Ryder and Conrad Shindler. She arrived in Kentucky on Monday and played a nine-hole practice round with Domenico Geminiani, whom she met up with on the tee.
“I feel like the two of us out there were just trying to figure it out together,” she said.
In her nine-hole practice round, Lincicome hit one hybrid and one 5-iron for her longest approach shots. She won’t be able to reach the par 5s in two, and said she’d need to make birdie the old-fashioned way.
Lincicome warmed up for the event by competing in the Rockford (Ill.) Pro-Am alongside male Tour players. She shot 5 under with a three-putt on the last hole from around 7,000 yards, and told her Twitter followers that the Barbasol would come down to handling the nerves.
“Obviously, I’ve heard many times it would be cool to be the first woman to make the cut in a men’s event (since Zaharias),” she said. “Just going to roll with it and see what happens.”
