WASHINGTON, July 18 (Xinhua) -- Eight-time LPGA Tour winner Brittany Lincicome will have a chance to play PGA Tour's Barbasol Championship which will start on Saturday.
The 32-year-old Lincicome hopes to play well enough from there to stick around through the weekend. If she were to make the cut, Lincicome would achieve something no woman has done against male competitors. The list of players who've tried includes greats such as Babe Zaharias and Annika Sorenstam.
"I'm super excited," said the long-hitting Lincicome, the first woman to compete on the PGA Tour since Michelle Wie in 2008.
"I've always thought it'd be cool to play in a men's event, but never did I think I would actually have the opportunity.
"Obviously, I've heard many times it would be cool to be the first woman to make the cut in a men's event, but I'm just going to roll with it and see what happens," added the two-time major champion on the LPGA Tour.
As the British Open begins Thursday in Carnoustie, Scotland, PGA Tour players who didn't make the field for that major will aim to break through alongside Lincicome at the Barbasol.
The event has moved after three years in Alabama to the 7,328-yard, par-72 Champion Trace course at Keene Trace Golf Club outside Lexington.
The 132-player field includes Hall of Famer and 1997 PGA Championship winner Davis Love III, 2014 FedEx Cup champion Billy Horschel and tour veterans Stuart Appleby and Hunter Mahan.
