Today is the final round of the LPGA’s Queen City Championship. It’s being played at Kenwood Country Club in Cincinnati Ohio. Kenwood Country Club was designed back in 1930. It’s one of only 39 golf clubs in the United States that are over 90 years old. It’s in an even more elite class of clubs that have also conducted major championships in the past including the 1933 U.S. Amateur and the 1963 U.S. Women’s Open Championship.
Why is it called the Queen City Championship?
The term Queen City Championship is a nod back to the city of Cincinnati itself. According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, the name goes as far back as 1819 or even earlier. Civic leaders were looking to boost the reputation of the city touting its grand offerings. Resident E.B. Cooke wrote “The City is, indeed, justly styled the fair Queen of the West: distinguished for order, enterprise, public spirit, and liberality, she stands the wonder of an admiring world.”
The term really stuck when immortalized by poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In 1854, he wrote the poem Catawba Wine. The poem finishes saying And this the song of the vine, This greeting of mine, The winds and the birds shall deliver, To the Queen of the West, In her garlands dressed, On the banks of the Beautiful River.
Who’s leading and in the hunt at the Queen City Championship?
Minjee Lee of Australia presently leads the tournament at 15 under. She is trailed most closely by Charley Hull of the UK and Peiyun Chien of Taiwan. The final round will be broadcasted on NBC starting at 2PM today.