BELLEAIR, Fla. – Among those on Pelican Golf Club’s first tee Wednesday morning to witness the start of Caitlin Clark’s encore: new LPGA commissioner Craig Kessler, who loved what he was seeing.

Hundreds of fans packed around the tee box as Clark, world No. 2 Nelly Korda and their pro-am partners went through a long list of photo requests. Call it Solheim Cup Lite, but the energy was again electric, even with temperatures much cooler than they were a year ago when the LPGA megastar made her debut ahead of The Annika driven by Gainbridge.

“That first tee was something out of a book almost,” said Korda, who also played nine holes with Clark last year.

Clark then stepped up and sliced the first of what would be many tee balls right of the fairway. Injuries limited Clark to just 13 games th

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