LPGA Tour 9-Hole Scoring Record

Paula Creamer shared the LPGA 9 hole scoring record

What is the best 9-hole score — lowest score over the front nine or back nine — in the history of the LPGA Tour? That record is 26, and so far only one golfer in tour history has recorded it. That golfer is Lauren Coughlin, and her 26 happened in 2026.

These are the golfers with the lowest 9-hole scores in LPGA Tour history:

  • 26 — Lauren Coughlin, 2026 Walmart NW Arkansas Championship (par 35), back nine, second round, final score 61
  • 27 — Jimin Kang, 2005 ShopRite LPGA Classic (par 35), back nine, third round, final score 62
  • 27 — In-Kyung Kim, 2007 Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic (par 34), front nine, third round, final score 65
  • 27 — Paula Creamer, 2008 Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic (par 34), front nine, first round, final score 60
  • 27 — Amy Yang, 2015 LPGA KEB Hana Bank LPGA Championship (par 36), back nine, fourth round, final score 62
  • 27 — Mi Hyang Lee, 2016 LPGA Founders Cup (par 36), back nine, first round, final score 62
Coughlin scored the first 26 in LPGA history over holes 10-18 — nine birdies in a row, tying the LPGA record for consecutive birdies — of Pinnacle Country Club in Rogers, Arkansas. She started her round from the 10th tee, playing the back nine first, so although the 26 happened over the first nine holes of her round, it was scored on the back nine (10-18) of the golf course. Coughlin was the second golfer ever to birdie all nine holes of either the front or back nine during an LPGA tournament round, joining Amy Yang (and that feat put Yang on the list above, too).

A couple other notes about the list: Lee and Yang, the two most recent LPGA golfers to score 27 over one nine, were both 9-under-par for their 9-hole 27s (Coughlin was also 9-under). Creamer's 27 in 2008 came during a round of 60 which was, at the time, just the fifth round in LPGA history of 60 or lower.

Creamer is the only golfer on the list who won the tournament. Coughlin finished tied for 12th place. Kang and Kim tied for seventh in their respective events, Yang tied for fourth and Lee tied for 13th.

When Kang became the first LPGA player to shoot 27 for nine holes in 2005, whose record did she break? Many golfers to that point had recorded a 28 over nine on the LPGA Tour. But the first LPGA golfer with a 28 was Mary Beth Zimmerman, who did it at the 1984 Rail Charity Classic.

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Photo credit: Keith Allison from Hanover, MD, USA / CC BY-SA

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