With solely three occasions remaining within the 2023 LPGA season, the checklist of gamers with an opportunity at one of many tour’s season-ending awards narrows.
Probably the most intriguing race is the most important of all, the Rolex Participant of the Yr Award. On Sunday, two-time main winner Lilia Vu was surpassed by Celine Boutier within the POY race after the Frenchwoman collected her fourth title of the season. Vu, a three-time winner this season, nonetheless has time to mount a problem.
Final yr, Lydia Ko gained the POY title, Vare Trophy and the cash title after clinching the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship. This yr, the Kiwi might be hard-pressed to qualify for CME.
In August, Vu clinched the 2023 Rolex Annika Main Award after successful each the Chevron Championship and AIG Girls’s British Open.
Right here’s how issues presently stand:
Celine Boutier celebrates with the trophy after successful the 2023 LPGA Maybank Championship in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Photograph: Vincent Thian/Related Press)
Boutier vaulted forward of two-time main winner Vu together with her victory in Malaysia. Now a four-time winner this season, the winningest participant in French historical past holds a three-point lead over Vu and a 36-point lead over Ruoning Yin. No French participant has ever gained LPGA Participant of the Yr.
Gamers should end within the prime 10 to earn level. A victory is price 30 factors.
Hae Ran Ryu reacts to her birdie putt together with her caddie on the primary inexperienced throughout the remaining spherical of the 2023 Walmart NW Arkansas Championship at Pinnacle Nation Membership in Rogers, Arkansas. (Photograph: Alex Slitz/Getty Photos)
Three gamers have an opportunity at successful the Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Yr award, however it will take one thing magical to unseat Hae Ran Ryu. The South Korean leads Grace Kim by 255 factors and Yuna Nishimura by 410 factors.
Ryu can mathematically clinch it with a Twelfth-place end or higher at The Annika pushed by Gainbridge at Pelican.
Rose Zhang presently sits in third however isn’t signed as much as compete on the Pelican. Zhang must win all three remaining occasions on the schedule to have an opportunity. Zhang’s victory at the Mizuho Americas didn’t depend towards her factors complete as a result of she was not a member but.
Hyo Joo Kim of South Korea appears on throughout the remaining spherical of the 2023 Ascendant LPGA benefiting Volunteers of America at Outdated American Golf Membership in The Colony, Texas. (Photograph: Sam Hodde/Getty Photos)
Hyo Joo Kim leads the best way within the Vare Trophy with a 69.671 common. She paces Atthaya Thitikul, who misplaced to Boutier in a nine-hole playoff Sunday, by 0.090 strokes. Thitikul would wish a median strokes per spherical of 68.916 in her final two occasions to move Kim’s present common.
Annika Sorenstam holds the report for the bottom scoring common at 68.70 in 2002.
Allisen Corpuz appears on the pro-am forward of the 2023 Amundi Evian Championship at Evian Resort Golf Membership in Evian-les-Bains, France. (Photograph: Stuart Franklin/Getty Photos)
Allisen Corpuz gained one title in 2023, however it was a doozie. The American collected a $2 million paycheck for her U.S. Women’s Open title at Pebble Seaside. Corpuz presently tops the cash checklist with $3,017,771 in 22 begins. She leads Vu by $252,968 and Boutier by $287,431.
There may be $12.25 million in prize cash remaining by way of the CME Group Tour Championship with the winner of the CME taking residence $2 million.
Angel Yin celebrates after successful the 2023 Buick Shanghai LPGA. (Photograph: AFP)
The Aon Danger Reward Problem wraps up subsequent week at The Annika. Angel Yin, who has led the Aon Danger Reward Problem for the reason that starting of October, ranks first with a median rating of -0.933 and is 28 underneath over 30 holes performed.
Thitikul ranks second to Yin and wishes at the very least two eagles to move her. Carlota Ciganda, the 2019 Aon winner, wants at the very least one eagle and a double eagle.
Ought to Yin make one birdie or worse on the Pelican on the par-5 14th, different situations will come into play.
The winner will obtain $1 million. Tyrrell Hatton gained the $1 million 2023 Aon Problem on the PGA Tour at -0.885.
