Lincicome to play in PGA Tour event

Brittany Lincicome has every reason to be nervous as she chases golf history.

The eight-time LPGA Tour winner hopes to knock out the jitters over first few holes at the PGA Tour’s Barbasol Championship and 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. Lincicome knows what she’s up against. If she earns a Saturday tee time, she knows what it will mean for women and girls — and for golf in general.

“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.”

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.