The LPGA season kicks off subsequent week with the Hilton Grand Holidays Match of Champions, and World No. 1 Lilia Vu headlines the sector. It marks the primary time that Vu has been eligible for the sector provided that she received her first profession title final February on the Honda LPGA Thailand and went on to win three extra occasions, together with two majors.
The season-opener takes place Jan. 18-21 at Lake Nona Golf and Nation Membership in Orlando, Florida. LPGA winners from the previous two seasons are invited to compete for a $1.5 million purse whereas a subject of celebrities vie for $500,000.
As soon as once more, Lake Nona resident Annika Sorenstam will compete within the celeb subject together with NBC’s Dylan Dreyer, U.S. Soccer Corridor of Famer Landon Donovan, eight-time NBA All-Star Vince Carter, nation music star Chris Lane and World Collection Champion John Smoltz.
Whereas Vu and No. 2 Ruoning Yin start their 2024 seasons subsequent week, six gamers inside the highest 10 of the Rolex Rankings are skipping the primary occasion. For a lot of worldwide gamers, the lure of an extended offseason outweighs the perks of the TOC.
Whereas there are two occasions in Florida to begin the season in 2024, with the LPGA Drive On occasion in Bradenton the next week, the tour then has three weeks off earlier than starting the spring Asian swing in Thailand.
Right here’s a have a look at which prime gamers are within the subject for this 12 months’s TOC and which of them are sitting out:
Lilia Vu will get champagne poured on her after profitable The ANNIKA pushed by Gainbridge at Pelican at Pelican Golf Membership on November 12, 2023, in Belleair, Florida. (Photograph by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Pictures)
Ruoning Yin tees off on the 4th gap through the second spherical of the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship golf event. Necessary Credit score: John Jones-USA TODAY Sports activities
Celine Boutier of France tees off on the eighth gap through the second spherical of the Maybank Championship at Kuala Lumpur Golf and Nation Membership on October 27, 2023 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Photograph by Yong Teck Lim/Getty Pictures)
Australia’s Minjee Lee is sprayed with champagne by Australia’s Hannah Inexperienced (L) as she celebrates her victory on the finish of the BMW Women Championship golf event at Seowon Hills Nation Membership in Paju on October 22, 2023. (Photograph by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)
Nelly Korda of america seems on from the second tee through the second spherical of the CME Group Tour Championship at Tiburon Golf Membership on November 17, 2023, in Naples, Florida. (Photograph by Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Pictures)
Jin Younger Ko imitates a selfie as she poses with the winner’s trophy after a playoff win in opposition to Minjee Lee on the 2023 Cognizant Founders Cup at Higher Montclair Nation Membership in Clifton, New Jersey. (Photograph: Mike Stobe/Getty Pictures)
THE COLONY, TEXAS – OCTOBER 07: Hyo Joo Kim of South Korea seems on from the primary tee through the third spherical of The Ascendant LPGA benefiting Volunteers of America at Outdated American Golf Membership on October 07, 2023 in The Colony, Texas. (Photograph by Sam Hodde/Getty Pictures)
Charley Hull watches her tee shot on the fouirth gap through the ultimate spherical of the 2023 Kroger Queen Metropolis Championship in at Kenwood Nation Membership in Ohio. (Photograph: Albert Cesare/The Enquirer)
Atthaya Thitikul of Thailand smiles on the eleventh tee through the second spherical of the CME Group Tour Championship at Tiburon Golf Membership on November 17, 2023, in Naples, Florida. (Photograph by Michael Reaves/Getty Pictures)
Xiyu Janet Lin chips onto the sixth inexperienced through the first spherical of the 2022 CME Group Tour Championship on the Tiburon Golf Membership in Naples, Florida. (Photograph: Chris Tilley/Palm Seaside Publish)
Lydia Ko of New Zealand in motion through the Professional Am occasion previous to the AIG Girls’s Open at Walton Heath Golf Membership on August 09, 2023 in Tadworth, England. (Photograph by Andrew Redington/Getty Pictures)
Allisen Corpuz celebrates with the Harton S. Semple Trophy after profitable the 78th U.S. Girls’s Open at Pebble Seaside Golf Hyperlinks on July 09, 2023, in Pebble Seaside, California. (Photograph by Ezra Shaw/Getty Pictures)
Brooke M. Henderson of Canada tees off on the thirteenth gap through the Second Spherical of the Amundi Evian Championship at Evian Resort Golf Membership on July 28, 2023, in Evian-les-Bains, France. (Photograph by Stuart Franklin/Getty Pictures)
Megan Khang performs her shot from the eighth tee through the ultimate spherical of the 2023 CPKC Girls’s Open at Shaughnessy Golf and Nation Membership in Vancouver, British Columbia. (Photograph: Vaughn Ridley/Getty Pictures)
