Star power

Jill McGill (left) won the 2022 U.S. Senior Women's Open by defeating Annika Sorenstam, who won the event in 2021. Photo: Jeff Haynes, USGA

Four past winners will return to the 2023 U.S. Senior Women’s Open for the fifth staging of this USGA championship, set to begin this Thursday at Waverly Country Club in Portland, Oregon.

England’s Laura Davies, who won the inaugural 2018 event, hopes to add a third USGA crown alongside her 1987 U.S. Women’s Open title.

Swedes Helen Alfredsson, who won in 2019, and Annika Sorenstam, who added the 2021 Senior Women’s Open trophy to her three U.S. Women’s Open titles, also will return to competition. (No championship was held in 2020, due to Covid-19.)

And last year’s winner, Jill McGill of Denver, hopes to defend her title as the event’s first American champion. McGill edged out Leta Lindley by one stroke in the 2022 championship staged at NCR Country Club in Kettering, Ohio. Lindley, of Pal...