USGA offers special dispensations while reviewing maternity policies

Stacy Lewis was disappointed her request for a special exemption to allow her to play in this year’s U.S. Women’s Open was rejected, forcing her to qualify, but she received good news from the USGA before she teed it up Saturday at the Hugel-Air Premia LA Open.

The two-time major champion and former world No. 1 was offered and accepted special dispensation that allows her to play while the USGA conducts a review of its maternity extension policy for competitors.

“Fundamentally, we think this is the right thing to do,” Craig Annis, the USGA’s managing director of marketing, communications and community affairs, told GolfChannel.com.

Brittany Lincicome, who used the current USGA policy to defer…