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Canada’s Savannah Grewal has re-earned her LPGA Tour card for 2025 and can take loads of classes into her second season as a professional.
Grewal, of Mississauga, Ont., completed tied for forty eighth on Sunday at The Annika pushed by Gainbridge at Pelican — the ultimate full-field occasion of the LPGA Tour season — and ended the 12 months at No. 97 within the Race to CME Globe standings. The highest 100 earn LPGA Tour playing cards for subsequent 12 months.
“I hit the ball, for probably the most half, fairly good — simply made some psychological errors the primary two rounds. I discovered from that, particularly Saturday,” Grewal mentioned from Bellair, Fla. “Simply completely happy to have made the reduce and hopefully maintain my Tour card.”
Grewal was simply three photographs again of the lead by two rounds final week on the Lotte Championship however struggled over the weekend, taking pictures 74-76, to drop right into a tie for 54th. She wanted to make the reduce this week on the penultimate occasion of the season and did it on the quantity.
Grewal rallied to shoot a 4-under 66 on Saturday however gave all of it again Sunday after a 4-under 74. It was nonetheless sufficient to solidify a second 12 months in a row on the LPGA Tour.
“I simply tried to remain actually calm, particularly within the first two rounds, simply understanding I needed to make the reduce. I simply tried to remain actually current,” Grewal mentioned. “I made triple bogey on my 18th gap within the first spherical as a result of I didn’t keep current. Apart from that, I felt like I did a reasonably good job of staying calm.”
Grewal’s greatest end result got here in her second occasion of the 12 months, the Blue Bay LPGA, the place she completed tied for fourth. She struggled to place two good rounds collectively after that, nonetheless, lacking 9 straight cuts at one level. However she discovered the weekend in her final 5 tournaments in a row, which proved to be the distinction.
Grewal, a pre-med graduate from Clemson College, earned LPGA Tour standing for this season by way of a tie for tenth on the LPGA’s Q-Sequence finale final December.
She admitted she “wasn’t in an important spot” mentally this 12 months however is keen to enhance upon that for 2025.
“So long as I can keep current and assured, I will be simply fantastic subsequent 12 months,” Grewal mentioned. “That’s been my largest takeaway.”
Nelly Korda captured The Annika on Sunday for her unbelievable seventh victory on the LPGA Tour in 2024. Grewal completed 15 photographs again of Korda’s profitable whole.
Hamilton’s Alena Sharp additionally made the reduce at The Annika. She completed tied for forty third and ended up No. 123 on the Race to CME Globe.
4 Canadians — Yeji Kwon of Port Coquitlam, B.C., Monet Chun of Richmond Hill, Ont., Maddie Szeryk of London, Ont., and Josee Doyon of St-Georges-de-Beauce, Que. — will intention to observe in Grewal’s footsteps and earn LPGA Tour standing by way of the finale of LPGA Q-Sequence Dec. 5-9.
The LPGA Tour wraps up its 2024 marketing campaign on the CME Globe Tour Championship at Tiburon Golf Membership in Naples, Fla., subsequent week.
Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont. would be the lone Canadian within the discipline that options solely the highest 60 within the Race to CME Globe standings. Henderson, due to eight top-10s this 12 months, is No. 14.
Korda — who has already locked up Participant of the Yr honours — will enter the season finale No. 1 within the standings. Up for grabs is the most important first-place prize in ladies’s golf, US$4 million.
