BREAKING NEWS: Women’s U.S. Open 2025 Golf Odds And Featured Groups With Nelly Korda’s Dominance And Lexi Thompson’s Retirement

The 2024 U.S. Women’s Open is set to tee off May 30 at Lancaster Country Club in Pennsylvania. The storylines include Nelly Korda shooting for her 7th LPGA victory this year, again as the prohibitive favorite, and Lexi Thompson announcing her retirement from the LPGA Tour at the age of 29

Lexi Thompson will compete in the 2024 U.S. Open, and retire at the end of this year, at least from a full time schedule.

“While it is never easy to say goodbye, it is indeed time,” Thompson said via Instagram. “At the end of 2024, I will be stepping away from a full professional golf schedule. I’m excited to enjoy the remainder of the year as there are still goals I want to accomplish.

Now it’s Nelly Korda who is dominating the world of golf, along with Scottie Scheffler on the PGA Tour. Korda is flying high, not only with her major sponsors Delta Air Lines, Goldman Sachs, Nike, Taylor Made Golf and T-Mobile, but with six wins in her last seven starts as the singular star of the LPGA Tour. Her stats profile is off the charts elite too.

The Par 70 Lancaster Club plays to 6,583 yards and features bentgrass fairways and greens. The course “handsomely rewards those with strong tee-to-green games and high ball flights,” according to the Fried Egg preview. Guess who has both? With those attributes and her newly improved short game and putting, it really feels like Nelly controls her own destiny.

Norda is the No. 1 ranked women’s golfer, and she’s the prohibitive favorite at +330 odds (just higher than 3/1). The next closest competitor is fellow American Rose Zhang. The 25-year-old Norda has already won 14 times on the LPGA Tour, including six of her last seven tournaments this year.

The Fried Egg preview notes these major challengers to Nelly Korda.

Rose Zhang made her first professional start one year ago. She’s won twice on the LPGA Tour, including three weeks ago. Zhang also took an extended break from golf while taking a full course load at Stanford this past year. A top-10 finish already in a major, Zhang’s 80% driving accuracy will serve her well on the narrow fairways at Lancaster in hopes of capturing her first major title.

Hannah Green has two wins this year on the LPGA Tour, and finished second most recently in the Mizuho Americas Open after going toe-to-toe with Nelly Korda.

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