Lexi Thompson at Shriners Open: Updated scores, tee times, TV coverage to watch 7th woman to play PGA Tour event

Lexi Thompson made golf history at the 2023 Shriners Children’s Open by becoming the seventh woman to compete in a PGA Tour event. It hadn’t been done since 2018.

Not only did she play at the tournament, but she competed. She finished Round 1 with a 2-over-par 73, tying her for the 93rd spot. The round had to be finished Friday morning after darkness cut Thursday short.

Just a few hours later, she began Round 2. Thompson began on the back nine and halfway through, she looked like she would make the cut. Unfortunately, she fell just short of the cut, bogeying on the eighth hole and failing to get the necessary birdie on the ninth hole. She scored a 2-under-par 69 on Round 2, finishing her tournament evenly at par and tied for 73rd.

An incredible showing regardless.

Some might see it as a disappointing finish, as Thompson was one stroke away from becoming the first woman to make the cut at a PGA Tour event since 1945 and second overall. But she went into the Shriners Open, to which she received a sponsor’s invitation, already defining her success. It wasn’t about how she did on the course but about who was watching her.

She used a white bag at the tournament so kids could sign.

“If I can leave here inspiring others, and especially the kids, the Shriners kids, that’s what it’s all about and what this tournament is,” she said in a press conference on Wednesday. “Of course, yes, I want to play good…There is more to life than just performing well.”