2. Hello, Shibuno

Hinako Shibuno celebrates with the trophy at the AIG Women’s British Open. (Photo: Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

There are rookie winners every year as well as non-members who earn their way onto the LPGA in one life-changing moment. But there’s never been a story quite like Hinako Shibuno, who hadn’t competed outside of her native Japan until this year’s AIG Women’s British Open. Miraculously, she won in her major debut, wooing the British crowds with her incomparable joy and speedy play. The “Smiling Cinderella” left us all marvelously enchanted on a day or riveting golf.