Becca Huffer
“It’s Going To Be A Much Bigger Deal Standing Over A Three-Foot Putt”…
After months of inactivity, golfers compete at CoBank Colorado Women’s Open. Carlota Ciganda, the world’s 15th ranked player and local favorites Jennifer Kupcho and defending champion Becca Huffer headline the first professional athletic event in Colorado since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Dear Diary…”
After reading (and writing) herself the riot act, Becca Huffer is ready to rebound from a troubling 2019 season—whenever the pandemic allows it to happen.
Huffer Wins Her Second CoBank Colorado Women’s Open Title
Coloradan capitalizes on final hole for dramatic victory.
History repeated itself in Friday’s finale to the CoBank Colorado Women’s Open.
As she did in 2013, Becca Huffer overcame a five-shot deficit in the final round to win the event in a playoff. This time, however, the LPGA rookie from Denver faced a seemingly insurmountable task. Going into the final hole, she trailed the leader—17-year-old Yealimi Noh of Concord, Calif.—by three strokes.
Ladies Lead Off
For the first time since 2012, the CoBank Colorado Women’s Open will kick off the three-event CoBank Colorado Open Championship season. The field for the $150,000 championship—the richest in the country for a women’s state open, with a winner’s share of $50,000—will tee it up at Green Valley Ranch Golf Club May 29-31, swapping places in the schedule with the CoBank Colorado Senior Open, which will now take place August 28-30.
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Kupcho, Huffer and Choi Qualify for LPGA Tour
From a field of 102, three players with strong Colorado ties emerge with LPGA cards. To no one’s surprise, the No. 1 amateur woman golfer in the world—Jennifer Kupcho of Westminster, Colo.—qualified for the LPGA Tour during the inaugural Q-Series concluded Saturday at Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina. And she did it convincingly, shooting a … Read more
CoBank Colorado Women’s Open Doubles Purse
One year and one day after doubling the purse in the CoBank Colorado Open, the Colorado Open Golf Foundation announced today that the CoBank Colorado Women’s Open would follow suit. As of this year, the total purse in the Aug. 30-Sept. 1 event at Green Valley Ranch Golf Club will jump from $75,000 to $150,000, … Read more