LGPA Tour trailblazer Lexi Thompson will compete against men at the PGA Tour's upcoming stop in Las Vegas.
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Thompson will become the seventh woman to compete in a PGA Tour event and the first since Brittany Lincicome did so at the 2018 Barbasol Championship. Babe Didrikson Zaharias became the first woman to receive a sponsor exemption at The Cascades Open in 1935.
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