Stephanie Meadow will make her first major championship appearance since 2024 after she was confirmed as a late entry to this week’s KPMG Women’s PGA Championship at Hazeltine.
Meadow will join Leona Maguire and tournament debutant Lauren Walsh at the third women’s major of the year where Minjee Lee will defend her title.
Meadow has made four appearances on the LPGA Tour this season after taking a year away from the game, missing three cuts but stopping the rot with a T21 finish at the Shoprite LPGA a couple of weeks ago.
The Jordanstown native has a good record in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship with two top-10s in consecutive years including coming third in the 2023 edition where Maguire was also in contention. Meadow has three top-10 finishes in majors in total with her first coming as an amateur where she was third at the US Women’s Open in 2014.
She ended the 2014 season at a career high 82nd in the Rolex World Rankings as an amateur. As a professional she has been ranked as high as 89th after her third place at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship which also saw her pocket $423,070.
Meadow won her first Symetra Tour tournament at the 2018 IOA Championship in a playoff. She finished sixth on the Symetra Tour money list, thus earning her LPGA Tour Card for 2019. In August 2019, she won the World Invitational at Galgorm Castle, Northern Ireland.
At the 2020 Summer Olympics, held in August 2021, she represented Ireland and finished 7th.