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COVID-19 and neck pain behind her, 'patient' Gaby Lopez in early KPMG contention

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. – With an eye roll and an exclamation of, “Oh, Lord,” Gaby Lopez expressed what we all feel: January seems like a lifetime ago.

It was at the beginning of the year, the start of the LPGA season, in fact, that Lopez won the Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions. She did so in freezing Central Florida weather, over the course of five days and 79 holes.

It was chilly Thursday morning at Aronimink Golf Club, site of this week’s KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, but not as cold as Lopez expected – or had previously encountered –when teeing off at 7:32 a.