2025 LPGA Season Odds and Ends

[JungleJimbo]

On 1/16/2025 at 10:38 AM, AKL Kiwi said:

LPGA International Crown to include new 'Team World'

The International Crown, an LPGA match-play competition, will feature a new team of global stars for this year's edition in Korea, organizers said Thursday.
 
Team World, to be made up of one player each from the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa and Oceania, will go up against seven national teams when the 2025 International Crown is played from Oct. 23 to 26 at new Korea Country Club in Goyang, Gyeonggi.

 

National teams will be represented by their top four players in the world rankings. The combined number of the players' ranking positions will be the team ranking points, and the country with the lowest total will be the top seed. The top seven countries in the points as of June 23 will qualify for the International Crown, and the final field of 32 players, including four for Team World, will be selected based on the rankings on Aug. 4.

 

 

LPGA's tweet = puts faces to this notional "World team"

 

https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/lpga/2025/01/16/lpga-international-crown-adds-world-team-2025-brooke-henderson-lydia-ko/77730340007/

 

 

 

 

Edited January 17 by JungleJimbo

[subrew]

My wife and I had a blast at the last International Crown event in SF.  We went on the first day, crowds were low, and you could basically just stand a few feet from the practice putting green, or alongside fairways.  It was a good mix of players, and match play format is fun.  It was also eye opening to see how different players practiced and played.  When the US team was 20 minutes out from tee off, Nelly and Lilia were out grinding over putts.  Meanwhile Daniel Kang was wearing three different sweatshirts, talking and laughing and barely stroked a ball.  Lexi was way off in the back corner of the green away from everyone.  The Chinese team had a different vibe altogether, like they were so incredibly excited to be there, they talked with everyone, took tons of selfies etc.  I asked one of their caddies what clubs one of the players was playing, and he just grabbed a 7i out of the bag and handed it to me.  It was a Miura btw.  

 

edit: and yes, Nelly had a different caddie on the bag, as her main caddie was off on baby leave. 

 

 

Edited January 16 by subrew

[DuenPhen]

The new World Team is both a gimmick that goes against the mission of the tournament (finding the best nation) and an elegant solution to a long standing problem in team competitions (missing the best players). All in all, I think I'm a fan of it.

 

In other news, Jeeno will not play this week in Indonesia, which is actually KLPGA co-sanctioned. She will play in Saudi for the moneybags though.

Edited January 20 by DuenPhen

[JungleJimbo]

22 minutes ago, DuenPhen said:

The new World Team is both a gimmick that goes against the mission of the tournament (finding the best nation) and an elegant solution to a long standing problem in team competitions (missing the best players). All in all, I think I'm a fan of it.

 

In other news, Jeeno will not play this week in Indonesia, which is actually KLPGA co-sanctioned. She will play in Saudi for the moneybags though.

 

@DuenPhen: Kudos to you for the info... 
Difficult to find online info via google, for this Indonesia Women's Open 2025 (despite it being scheduled for Jan 24-26, 2025... ie this week!)

 

... Some info here (limited to the launch of their media poster

... with a sub-optimal font choice/ too-small font-size to easily identify the participating pros!

I can just above make out "Jaravee Boonchant", "Dottie Ardina", "Fiona Xu" and "Gabriella Then"... but not much else!)
: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/asia-golf-leaders-forum_the-official-poster-for-the-inaugural-indonesia-activity-7283371263438307328-BJU- 

 

... https://www.linkedin.com/posts/asia-golf-leaders-forum_aglf-pbpgi-damaiindahgolfbsd-activity-7257681837206970370-I6Mf 

 

Edited January 20 by JungleJimbo

[18majors]

Did Nelly need to resign from Grant Thornton in order to sign with EY; I don't see a conflict of interest here:

 

 

[AKL Kiwi]

4 hours ago, 18majors said:

Did Nelly need to resign from Grant Thornton in order to sign with EY; I don't see a conflict of interest here:

They're both international accounting companies so has to be a conflict. Be interesting to know what the sponsorship value is to both Nelly and Lydia. Given the fact that GT has now halved it's sponsorship of the Invitational Nelly might be making a smart move...... Lydia now starts season 2025 officially as world #2

[3eagles]

Realize it doesn't mean as much in January but there was a change in the top 3 Rolex Rankings today.

Last week Ruoning and Lydia were separated by only .0011.

Today Lydia moved into 2nd by .0169.

No other changes in top 10.

 

[18majors]

49 minutes ago, AKL Kiwi said:

Be interesting to know what the sponsorship value is to both Nelly and Lydia.

 

 

We'll never know because there won't be any official announcement.

 

However, my educated guess is that Nelly signed with EY for $1.5 million per year, up from $500,000 with Grant Thornton.  Consequently, Lydia signed a $500,000 contract to replace Nelly as Grant Thornton's lead ambassador.

 

My guess for Nelly's contract is based on that she's the lead ambassador for EY, ahead of Ricky Fowler.  And, in this day and age, Ricky wouldn't sign any contract for less than $1.0 million per.

 

 

[Treats]

On 1/15/2025 at 2:45 PM, 18majors said:

 

It appears Nelly has resigned from Grant Thornton; the Nelly fish has outgrown the small pond of Grant Thornton.  By the way, the purse of Grant Thornton Invitational will be $2.0 million in 2025; down from $4.0 million in both 2023 and 2024:

 

 

I believe the purse will remain at $4M for 2025, as per the GT website.

https://grantthorntoninvitational.com/

 

On the LPGA website, it indicates a $2M purse for 2025, and payouts in 2023 and 2024 of a $2M purse. Maybe the LPGA website intern decided on his/her own to only include the LPGA pro's takeaways...lol.

[18majors]

Malbon Golf Announces Minjee Lee as New Ambassador

 

[JungleJimbo]

Ron Sirak's tribute to "LPGA 75th anniversary" = worth a read.

 

Link: https://ronsirak.com/ 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ron Sirak on Golf and Journalism

ronsirak.com

 

Welcome to Ron Sirak.com

Through Gut and Grit the LPGA Has Survived 75 Years of Sexism, Racism and Homophobia

By Ron Sirak • @ronsirak
Jan. 2025

“Sure, he was great. But don’t forget Ginger Rogers did everything he did backwards and in high heels.” – Bob Thaves, Frank and Ernest comic strip.

 

There exists an uncomfortable but undeniable truth extending beyond the borders of golf, overshadowing all of sports and, in fact, haunting every aspect of American culture: For the achievements of women to be recognized they have to overachieve. And even when their dance is sublime, backward and in heels – Ginger Rogers mirroring the brilliance of Fred Astaire – the feat is often viewed as a mere appendage of male genius, not as genius on its own.

 

When 13 women launched the Ladies Professional Golf Association in 1950 they had the financial support of a few visionary equipment manufacturers who understood how World War II had changed America, identifying an emerging market now that Rosie had been liberated from the kitchen and then traded her rivet gun for a golf club. But traditional sports fans – and sports writers – who were almost exclusively men were not as appreciative, demeaning at every opportunity the efforts of female athletes.

 

For decades, skeptics – again, mostly men – swamped the LPGA in a sea of derision and burdened the Tour with a weighty prophecy of doom that, at times, seemed to be less predictive understanding and more wishful thinking. They wanted the LPGA Tour to fail. A sports columnist I know once wrote: “I love women and I love basketball, but I hate women’s basketball.”

 

As with many of my friends in the world of sports writing, the key to my relationship with the man who authored those words was not to discuss politics. My act of rebellion toward the men who demeaned women’s golf was to write about those remarkably talented and determined athletes in the women’s game more often and more passionately.

 

Once, while out to dinner with a bunch people who worked around golf, I was asked why I was so supportive of women’s golf and I said: “Other than feeling it’s the right thing to do, I don’t know.” Another person at the table who knew my background jumped in and said: “Sure you do – your mother.” When I thought about it, she was right.

 

I was a teenager when my father died and my Mom also had a 7-year-old and a 5-year-old to raise. From then on, she worked two jobs to support us. She was a welder from 7 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. and then a cleaning lady in an office building from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. She taught me the value of hard work, made certain I got a good education and instilled in me an obsession with fairness. Once, she tossed one of the Dad’s friends out of our house because he used the N word. Not bad for a woman without a high school degree.

 

Without ever making the conscious connection, when I had the good fortune to become friends with LPGA Founders Louise Suggs, Marilynn Smith and Shirley Spork, I saw a lot of my Mom in them – smart, strong and determined women with an unrelenting sense of fairness and a compassion that was often hidden behind toughness. When their accomplishments on the golf course and as businesswomen who created a professional tour were demeaned because of their gender, it offended the raging desire for equality that my Mom instilled in me.

 

Spork has the dual distinction of being not only a founder of the LPGA but, in 1959, she almost single-handedly created the Teaching & Club Pro Division of the Tour, gaining approval of the Board of Directors by a single vote. With that move, the door was open for women not only to earn money in professional competition but also to pick up paychecks as golf instructors. This was a hugely important victory not just for equality in the workplace but also for the growth of the game, allowing women the opportunity to be taught by women.

 

Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of the irrational dislike of the LPGA and women golfers by some is that those who feel that way also feel that everyone should share their beliefs. They are not just rooting against female athletes, but rather rooting against women. They enjoy inequality. And why not – they benefit from that inequality. I think often of the line Peter Weiss wrote in his play “Marat/Sade” which became a popular poster in the ‘60s: “Even if it is true that you’ve never had it so good, that is still the slogan of those who have more.”

 

Bigotry exists because someone – or some group of people – benefits from it. That benefit can be broad in terms of power and profit, or it can be narrow, existing sometimes just to make an individual feel better about themself.  Many times, when I post a link on social media to a story I’ve written about women’s golf, I get a guy who responds by saying: “No one cares about women’s golf.” Sometimes the responses are more explicitly – and disgustingly – sexist, racist and homophobic.

 

I don’t engage with those social media hatemongers because I don’t believe you can have a meaningful discussion about anything in sound bites of a couple hundred characters. But if I were to respond, I’d point out that, in fact, tens of millions of people around the world are fans of women’s golf and that it’s a pity this particular person is so insecure in his beliefs that he feels the only way he can validate those beliefs is to project his ideas onto everyone else as an indisputable intellectual absolute.

 

In my decades of writing about women’s golf, I’ve become familiar with many players. The privilege was mine to become friends with Suggs, Smith and Spork and to interview stars from every generation of the Tour’s history. That’s a benefit of the fact the LPGA and I were born in the same year – 1950. We grew up together. I always thought a strength of the LPGA was that so many of the 13 founders lived so long and were able to pass their story of survival onto subsequent generations of players – and the writers who were willing to listen.

 

To get to know these women has been an inspiring privilege. Their stories of courage and kindness, ability and aspiration, perspiration and perseverance are an honor to tell. When asked why I became a golf writer, my answer is: “I don’t write about golf; I write about people who happen to play golf.” The stories of the women who founded and pioneered the LPGA are not unlike the stories of those women who broke down barriers in science, business, academia, the law and government.

 

As voluminously and passionately as I’ve written about women golfers, I’ve never felt I was doing them justice. Often, I only tell part of the story because some of the details were too painful or too personal or just plain no one’s business. Always, I never sacrificed a long-term friendship for a short-term headline; I never betrayed anyone’s trust.

 

Through it all, I felt these remarkable women were not getting the credit they deserve. I knew their full story was not being told. But I know now that times have changed. The “Me Too” movement has made the denigration of women less acceptable. Gay marriage is a thing now and Gay Pride is totally out of the closet. The ugly truth of racism in America is being told.

 

Many of the 13 women who founded the LPGA are Lesbians, as are many of its greatest players. That’s a story that no longer needs to hide in the shadows. The abuse endured by Althea Gibson, the first Black on the LPGA, and Renee Powell, the second, are matters of public record but the racist hatred directed toward the Asian players who achieved so much success in the 21^st century was, at times, also extremely painful. I know that 20 years ago I’d get hate emails when I wrote about Asian players and I’m certain the players did as well.

 

While much of the sexism directed toward LPGA players over its first 50 years was limited to verbal distain and boorish dismissal of their achievements, a more recent generation of players have had to endure stalkers at tournaments and trolls on social media. But there is one enormous commonality that unites all generations of LPGA players: They are vulnerable to attack because they are women.

For decades, I have watched in awe as these remarkable women of the LPGA have danced backward and on spikes against all odds.

First, there were the sexists who sneered: “Who wants to watch a bunch of girls play golf?”

 

And still they danced on.

 

Those bigots were followed by the homophobes who jeered: “Who wants to watch a bunch of Lesbians play golf?”

 

And still they danced on.

 

Then came the racists who said: “Who wants to watch a bunch of Asians play golf?”

 

And still they danced on.

 

The story of the LPGA Tour is a snapshot into the American journey from World War II into the 21^st Century. The war changed things. Black sharecroppers and white farmers moved to the cities for better paying jobs and cultures mixed. Women left the home for the factory not because they were wanted but because they were needed in the fight against Fascism. After the war, that toothpaste could not be put back into the tube.

 

After the war, women stayed in the workplace – or at least tried to – and some of those who did aspired to be more than assembly line workers and secretaries, beginning the long march toward the C Suite. Some pursued sports, inspired by Babe Didriksen Zaharias, one of the 13 LPGA founders who, with Jim Thorpe, is on the extremely short list of the greatest athletes America has ever produced. 

 

Always to succeed – to advance – women had to not only achieve, they had to overachieve. One of the ways in which women’s sports was demeaned was to compare it to men’s sports rather than judge it on its own merits. 

 

Instead of saying Babe Zaharias is great they’d say, “She’s not as good as Ben Hogan.” Even when she won the U.S. Women’s Open – the most grueling event in the women’s game – 15 months after surgery for colon cancer, there were those who said the achievement was dwarfed by Hogan’s U.S. Open victory 16 months after a near-fatal car crash.

 

Even decades later, when Tiger Woods won his 82^nd PGA Tour tournament, tying Sam Snead on the all-time victories list, most in the media failed to point out that Kathy Whitworth won 88 times on the LPGA Tour and that Woods not only tied Snead for first among men but also tied Mickey Wright for the second-most victories on a major professional golf tour.

 

Sports has served an important role in the evolution of the United States. The games we play are a petri dish in which the melting pot called America experiments with change. Major League Baseball didn’t integrate until 1947; but the U.S. Supreme Court did not strike down segregated public schools until 1954. The PGA did not abolish its “Caucasian Only” clause until 1961; but the Civil Rights Act was not passed until 1964. When legendary football coach Paul “Bear” Bryant invited the University of Southern California and its 18 Black players to take on his all-white University of Alabama squad in Birmingham in 1970 – USC badly defeating ‘Bama – it helped integrate public universities in the South. While equality may not have mattered in Alabama, football did.

 

Athletes like track and field Olympian and 10-time golf major winner Babe Zaharias; 1960 triple Olympic gold medal sprinter Wilma Rudolph; Black tennis and golf pioneer Althea Gibson; tennis great and early equal-pay advocate Billie Jean King; gymnast Nadia Comaneci; race car driver Danica Patrick; 18-time Grand Slam tennis singles champion Martina Navratilova, basketball star Caitlin Clark and the United States Women’s National Soccer Team have all made the intended slur: “She plays like a girl” a badge of honor

Early on, female athletes had to fight merely for the right to play. Now the struggle is for equal pay. And how different is that than the gender battle waged in the American workplace? It’s one thing to get a job; it’s another thing to be fairly compensated for your labor.

 

Once again, women are reminding us that the battle is not over, that America is still evolving and that the effort to create a more perfect union is unending. Perfection is not a destination, but rather a process. Equality is achieved in the journey and anything short of complete equality is inequality.

 

While the 13 Founders of the LPGA will never be mentioned in the same breath as Susan B. Anthony, Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Amelia Earhart, Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman on any list of the most impactful American women, they deserve to be recognized for the contributions they made toward achieving the dream of a country in which all people are created equal.

 

Those 13 women pushed through that door opened by Rosie the Riveter and built a league of their own – a professional golf tour for women. The early members of the LPGA fought a silent battle for the right to live a Lesbian life decades before Pride Month was on anyone’s calendar. The Tour embraced Black players in the 1960s and later opened the door to Asians, making the LPGA “Golf’s Global Tour.” If America is truly a melting pot, the LPGA has added crucial ingredients to the stew on the stove and stirred it constantly for seven decades in a more impactful kitchen.

 

The story of the LPGA is a story that began with 13 women and grew to dozens and then hundreds and then thousands who fought to compete at a game they loved and fought to earn a living in the occupation they chose. The story of the LPGA is a story of vision, courage and remarkable perseverance. For 75 years, the LPGA has fought against sexism, racism and homophobia to become the world’s oldest continuous professional sports organization for women – all while dancing backward and on spikes. This is a fight that continues; this is a story that is still evolving.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtVVh4AFsxM

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[Phreddy]

Interesting to see that Netflix's Full Swing (out Feb. 25), will have both Min Woo Lee and Minjee Lee among the players featured.  The story arc has always followed a season on the PGA tour so Minjee may be simply as a supporting cast member if you will as opposed to incorporating the LPGA into the story arc.

 

Phred

[JungleJimbo]

12 hours ago, Phreddy said:

Interesting to see that Netflix's Full Swing (out Feb. 25), will have both Min Woo Lee and Minjee Lee among the players featured.  The story arc has always followed a season on the PGA tour so Minjee may be simply as a supporting cast member if you will as opposed to incorporating the LPGA into the story arc.

 

Phred

 

Presumably they will include the tagline/ catchphrase "Let THEM cook"

(instead of the "Let Him Cook" catchphrase, associated with Min-Woo?)

 

 

Edited January 23 by JungleJimbo

[DuenPhen]

Honda’s 12 Sponsor Invitees have been confirmed

 

- Wichanee Meechai

- Trichat Cheenglab

- Jaravee Boonchant

- Pimpisa Rubrong (a) - Qualifier winner

- Rio Takeda

- Chisato Iwai

- Akie Iwai

- Miyu Sato

- Georgia Hall

- Annabel Dimmock

- Anna Nordqvist

- Gianna Clemente (a)

[Argonne69]

2 hours ago, DuenPhen said:

Honda’s 12 Sponsor Invitees have been confirmed

 

- Wichanee Meechai

- Trichat Cheenglab

- Jaravee Boonchant

- Pimpisa Rubrong (a) - Qualifier winner

- Rio Takeda

- Chisato Iwai

- Akie Iwai

- Miyu Sato

- Georgia Hall

- Annabel Dimmock

- Anna Nordqvist

- Gianna Clemente (a)

 

Always nice to see a top ranked amateur in the field. 

 

[3eagles]

https://www.lpga.com/news/2025/lpga-announces-fir-hills-seri-pak-championship-will-not-be-held-in-march-as-scheduled

 

[jimecherry]

1 hour ago, 3eagles said:

https://www.lpga.com/news/2025/lpga-announces-fir-hills-seri-pak-championship-will-not-be-held-in-march-as-scheduled

 

underwriters are usually insurance related.

so the question comes to mind is this is related to the fires in LA maybe over stressing the insurance system of this club/tournaments underwriter?

[LBgolfer25]

2 hours ago, jimecherry said:

underwriters are usually insurance related.

so the question comes to mind is this is related to the fires in LA maybe over stressing the insurance system of this club/tournaments underwriter?

I thought so too at first but PR references failure to make payments so sounds like a major sponsor but not Fir Hills.

[postfold]

2 hours ago, jimecherry said:

underwriters are usually insurance related.

I don't think this is underwriter in the insurance sense.  I think it's just referring to a financial sponsor that underwrites a significant chunk of the cost.  But I dunno for sure.  Regardless, this is another black mark on Mollie's record.  Her replacement is going to have a lot of damage to undo.

[Seamus_McDuff]

On 1/15/2025 at 7:51 AM, Seamus_McDuff said:

TOC up to 33 now on LPGA site
 

https://www.lpga.com/tournaments/hilton-grand-vacations-tournament-of-champions/entries

 

But tournament site shows all 37 confirmed 

https://www.hgvlpga.com/players/2025-participants/?participant_type=21&last_name

 

The four not on LPGA site are

Grace Kim

Thitikul

Ruoning Yin

Vu

 

 

 

Strange, LPGA site now shows 32 entered and event site shows 36 eligible. Did someone have their eligibility revoked?

[Treats]

4 hours ago, postfold said:

I don't think this is underwriter in the insurance sense.  I think it's just referring to a financial sponsor that underwrites a significant chunk of the cost.  But I dunno for sure.  Regardless, this is another black mark on Mollie's record.  Her replacement is going to have a lot of damage to undo.

 

Edited January 25 by Treats

[JungleJimbo]

4 hours ago, postfold said:

I don't think this is underwriter in the insurance sense.  I think it's just referring to a financial sponsor that underwrites a significant chunk of the cost.  But I dunno for sure.  Regardless, this is another black mark on Mollie's record.  Her replacement is going to have a lot of damage to undo.

 

 

 

[Treats]

11 hours ago, DuenPhen said:

Honda’s 12 Sponsor Invitees have been confirmed

 

- Wichanee Meechai

- Trichat Cheenglab

- Jaravee Boonchant

- Pimpisa Rubrong (a) - Qualifier winner

- Rio Takeda

- Chisato Iwai

- Akie Iwai

- Miyu Sato

- Georgia Hall

- Annabel Dimmock

- Anna Nordqvist

- Gianna Clemente (a)

Huh? Is this a major oversight? Eila Galisky not an invite?

A conflict with her Gamecock schooling or tournament schedule?

 

I would have thought Eila to be recruited by a bigger women's golf university powerhouse.

Any insights why she and her team chose the Gamecocks?

[Seamus_McDuff]

6 hours ago, Treats said:

Huh? Is this a major oversight? Eila Galisky not an invite?

A conflict with her Gamecock schooling or tournament schedule?

 

I would have thought Eila to be recruited by a bigger women's golf university powerhouse.

Any insights why she and her team chose the Gamecocks?

I don’t think we know who else recruited her. 
 

South Carolina might not be a powerhouse historically but has been very good the last decade. 
 

They were already ranked 3rd before Elia arrived. 
 

With Elia they have three in the top-20 WAGR. 

 

I believe only Stanford can match those numbers and Stanford’s current Freshman class is one of the best ever. 

[DuenPhen]

10 hours ago, Treats said:

Huh? Is this a major oversight? Eila Galisky not an invite?

A conflict with her Gamecock schooling or tournament schedule?

 

I would have thought Eila to be recruited by a bigger women's golf university powerhouse.

Any insights why she and her team chose the Gamecocks?

I am willing to believe that Eila will already be in the States. As for why SC, I don't know enough about the College scene to say why she made the decision she did.

[postfold]

12 hours ago, Treats said:

I would have thought Eila to be recruited by a bigger women's golf university powerhouse.

Any insights why she and her team chose the Gamecocks?

 

Here is a crazy conspiracy theory for you:  It's the closest major university with a top golf program to Augusta National.

[3eagles]

16 hours ago, Seamus_McDuff said:

Strange, LPGA site now shows 32 entered and event site shows 36 eligible. Did someone have their eligibility revoked?

 

There were 37 different winners of events in '23 and '24.

24 winners in 2023. 13 winners in 2024.

Includes 2 winners each year for the Dow team event.

 

Latest entry list has 32 players confirmed.

4 players . . Lilia, Jeeno, Ruoning, Grace Kim are not confirmed and as of today not playing.

 

Mone Inami won the 2023 Toto Japan. However she was not an LPGA member at the time. Apparently that prevents her from being qualified.

[Seamus_McDuff]

37 minutes ago, 3eagles said:

 

There were 37 different winners of events in '23 and '24.

24 winners in 2023. 13 winners in 2024.

Includes 2 winners each year for the Dow team event.

 

Latest entry list has 32 players confirmed.

4 players . . Lilia, Jeeno, Ruoning, Grace Kim are not confirmed and as of today not playing.

 

Mone Inami won the 2023 Toto Japan. However she was not an LPGA member at the time. Apparently that prevents her from being qualified.

At one point there were definitely 33 players listed as entered on the LPGA site and 37 listed as eligible on the tournament site so I guess it was Inami who was removed from both. However, Inami played in it last year based on her non-member win in 2023. The only thing I can think of is Inami has given up her LPGA membership for 2025 and is back on JLPGA. 

[OnTheBag]

5 hours ago, DuenPhen said:

As for why SC, I don't know enough about the College scene to say why she made the decision she did.

Most of these high level amateur ladies select a college program based upon the coach and campus.  All the top programs offer the same facilities and experience, so the differentiator is how they feel on campus and in their interactions with the coaching staff.  

 

Particularly with the foreign-born and raised players, how comfortable and supported they feel on campus means more than anything else.

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2 hours ago, Seamus_McDuff said:

At one point there were definitely 33 players listed as entered on the LPGA site and 37 listed as eligible on the tournament site so I guess it was Inami who was removed from both. However, Inami played in it last year based on her non-member win in 2023. The only thing I can think of is Inami has given up her LPGA membership for 2025 and is back on JLPGA. 

 

Mone accepted LPGA membership for 2024. Then finished 104th in final CME rankings. Is now 169th on priority list.

 

Looks like she lost her playing privileges.

 

I'd like to know why Lilia and Grace aren't playing. 

Edited January 25 by 3eagles
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