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There are 4 rounds left within the LPGA Tour’s common season, and rookie Savannah Grewal is decided to be mentally current for all 72 holes.
Grewal, from Mississauga, Ont., and Hamilton’s Alena Sharp are the one Canadians at this week’s The ANNIKA pushed by Gainbridge. The 23-year-old Grewal is correct on the cusp of incomes a card for the 2025 LPGA Tour season, however she must at the very least make the reduce at Pelican Golf Membership in Belleair, Fla., to clinch it.
“Actually only one shot at a time,” stated Grewal on her strategy. “I feel you are available at each event and your objective is to go on the market and compete and to be in rivalry, in order that’s clearly nonetheless the objective of this occasion.
“However I feel that so long as I’m not wanting on the leaderboard an excessive amount of and I’m simply actually specializing in the place I’m in that second, I feel that’s most likely what’s going to assist me probably the most.”
Grewal is 96th within the Race to CME Globe Standings, the LPGA Tour’s factors checklist. The highest 100 gamers on the elite girls’s skilled golf tour will obtain a card for subsequent 12 months.
“If I don’t play effectively there’s an opportunity I may not hold my card for subsequent 12 months, however I really feel fairly assured with the place I’m at and I feel so long as I keep current and I don’t get too far forward of myself, issues shall be simply high-quality,” stated Grewal.
Sharp is 126th within the rankings and can seemingly want to complete within the high six on the ANNIKA, relying on how the golfers forward of her within the standings do, to make it again on tour in 2025 with out qualifying by way of one other means.
Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., isn’t enjoying this week. At No. 13 on the standings, she is already assured a spot on subsequent 12 months’s tour and also will play within the CME Group Tour Championship subsequent week.
No. 146 Maude-Aimee Leblanc of Sherbrooke, Que., and No. 192 Maddie Szeryk of London, Ont., will not be on this week’s area. Consequently, they may each have to requalify to return to the LPGA Tour subsequent season.
Grewal earned some vital factors at the very least week’s LOTTE Championship, in the end tying for 54th at even par. She began robust with a first-round 68 and maintained her stable place with a second-round 70. Nevertheless, a third-round 74 and fourth-round 76 put her on this week’s high-stakes place.
“I feel so long as I deal with my respiratory and simply go on the market and I get pleasure from being on the market, simply have enjoyable with it, I feel that’s most likely going to be the very best factor for me,” stated Grewal.
“I feel that final week I did a extremely good job of that the primary two rounds and I feel the, after the reduce, I type of began to get forward of myself and take a look at that leaderboard.”
“I feel so long as I keep current and I don’t get too far forward of myself, issues shall be simply high-quality.”
Crunch-time from @SavannahGrewal’s maiden @LPGA Tour season, with subsequent 12 months’s standing on the road:
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AROUND THE TOURS
PGA TOUR — The autumn ball season continues with the Butterfield Bermuda Championship at Port Royal Golf Course in Southampton, Bermuda. Mackenzie Hughes of Dundas, Ont., isn’t simply the very best ranked Canadian within the occasion, at No. 51 he’s the very best ranked golfer within the area, interval. No. 57 Nick Taylor of Abbotsford, B.C., and No. 176 Roger Sloan of Merritt, B.C., may even tee it up.
CHAMPIONS TOUR — Danny King of Aurora, Ont., was tied for fourth at 4-under general on Wednesday after two rounds on the 2025 PGA Tour Champions Qualifying first stage at Buckhorn Springs Golf and Nation Membership in Valrico, Fla. Martin Plante (74) of St-Sauveur, Que., and Dennis Hendershott (73) of Brantford, Ont., was tied for thirty sixth at 5 over. Craig Watkins of Georgetown, Ont. was disqualified. Mike Woodcock (79) of Chatham, Ont., was tied for forty third at 16 over within the qualifying stage at Grand Bear Golf Membership in Saucier, Miss. Calgary’s Stuart Patterson withdrew after one spherical.
DP WORLD TOUR — Aaron Cockerill of Stony Mountain, Man., shall be within the second pairing to tee off on the DP World Tour Championship on Thursday. It was his objective all season to achieve the European tour’s finale at Jumeirah Golf Estates, Earth course, Dubai, UAE. He was forty ninth within the Race to Dubai rankings after final week’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, with the highest 50 golfers on the DP World Tour reaching its championship event.
