Hannah Green Eyes Historic Third Straight JM Eagle LA Championship Title in Los Angeles (2026)

Australian star Hannah Green is back in the spotlight this week as she chases a record-setting third JM Eagle LA Championship crown at El Caballero Country Club in Tarzana. After rounds of 67-69-70, the 29-year-old sits at eight-under-par, tied for seventh and six shots adrift of leader Sei Young Kim heading into the final round. Green already owns titles from the inaugural 2023 edition and the dramatic 2024 playoff, and another victory on Sunday would complete an unprecedented hat-trick at the LPGA’s Southern-California stop. The tournament has shifted from Wilshire Country Club to El Caballero while Wilshire undergoes renovations, but Green says the venue change hasn’t dented her comfort level. “I just feel very comfortable when I’m back here in L.A.,” she told reporters during Saturday’s media session. Confidence is understandable: since early March Green has produced one of the hottest streaks in women’s golf. She captured three consecutive international events—Singapore’s HSBC Women’s World Championship, the Women’s Australian Open in Adelaide and the WPGA Championship in Queensland—becoming the first Australian to win three straight tournaments in a 22-day span. That run earned her Ladies European Tour Player of the Month honors and vaulted her into the top tier of the Rolex Rankings. Green credits a mid-October putter switch and what she calls “boring golf” for the surge. “I hit a lot of fairways, a lot of greens and kept giving myself makeable looks,” she explained. The formula has worked at El Caballero as well, where slick Poa annua surfaces reward precise approach play and confident putting. Through three rounds she ranks inside the top ten in strokes gained on the greens and sits among the leaders in greens-in-regulation percentage. Sunday’s task is straightforward yet steep: erase a six-shot gap on a course that is firming up under Los Angeles’ warm spring sun. Green, however, owns a proven closing pedigree—she clawed back four strokes on the inward nine to win here last year—and she has converted five of her past seven 54-hole leads or close-chasing positions worldwide. A win would mark her fourth trophy in just seven weeks, move her past Minjee Lee into second place on the season-long Race to the CME Globe standings, and stamp her ticket to the year’s first major, the Chevron Championship, with enormous momentum. It would also give Australia back-to-back winners on the LPGA calendar following Grace Kim’s breakthrough in Hawaii. Key story lines to watch in the final round: • Can Green’s hot putter stay sharp on El Caballero’s glassy greens? • Will her fairway-finding “boring” strategy generate enough birdie chances to catch Kim? • How will wind gusts—which intensified late Saturday—affect club selection on the tight back-nine stretch? Regardless of the outcome, Green’s blistering form has already made her one of 2026’s must-follow athletes on the LPGA Tour. A Hollywood ending in Tarzana would only cement her status as the year’s breakout global golf star.