Texas – In what must feel like another lifetime, Allie White roomed with Lexi Thompson at an AJGA team event, and they said hello to each other on the range Friday morning at the 2025 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship.
“Don’t blame the bogey on me,” White joked while sitting with Judy Rankin and Grant Boone on Peacock’s Featured Group coverage. While White has moved on from tour life, Thompson is now semi-retired and contending at another LPGA major.
Thompson’s lone bogey of the day came on the difficult par-4 18th, denying her first bogey-free major championship round in three years. Even so, 2-under 70 on the Fields Ranch East course puts her in fine position as the course bakes out even more in the afternoon. Thompson, who’s 2-under for the tournament, might even hold the lead at day’s end as winds gust up to 30 mph with temperatures north of 90.
“It’s a difficult golf course, so it’s a matter of just really trusting your lines and knowing that the wind is going to bring it back,” said Thompson, who is making her seventh start of the season. “And just being happy with pars. This is a good par golf course.”
White, 35, made her second consecutive KPMG Women’s PGA appearance after back-to-back victories at the LPGA Professionals Championship in 2023 and 2024. A second-round 80 won’t have the Lancaster Golf Club (Ohio) director of golf playing the weekend, but she was all smiles in the booth after the round as she talked about her experience.
