ANGELA STANFORD CONTINUES CONSECUTIVE MAJOR STREAK AT THE CHEVRON CHAMPIONSHIP

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Some records in golf will never be broken. Kathy Whitworth’s 88 LPGA Tour victories come to mind. So do Jack Nicklaus’ 18 major titles and 154 consecutive majors played.

What about Mickey Wright’s 13 LPGA Tour wins in 1963? That’s a number no player on the LPGA or PGA Tour has matched post 1950.

But it now feels like the collective golf world has entered an era in which those records have become even more dusty, buried in books crammed on shelves that haven’t been opened in decades. In the Annika era and the Tiger era, those records were still being broken, new benchmarks were still being set, scoring records toppled as the game modernized.

And that fact makes what Angela Stanford is doing even more impressive.

The 46-year-old Texan is playing in her 98th consecutive major at this week’s Chevron Championship, having been extended a sponsor exemption by the title partner at the end of February. Stanford’s stretch of consecutive majors played is the longest active major streak in professional golf at the moment and is on pace to become the second-longest ever, behind only Nicklaus, who played in 154 straight majors for which he was eligible, 146 of which were in a row from 1962 to 1998.

Having the chance to play in 100 consecutive majors is something that Stanford never dreamed of when she joined the LPGA Tour in 2001, but now, it’s one of her only reasons for still competing at this point in her life, a goal that continues to get her out of bed every morning as the sun has started to set on her playing career.