Post by tonyj500 on Jul 18, 2022 17:10:20 GMT
My field rating for this tournament is a very solid 80% (way, way up from 68.5% last year).
My breakdown is 87% from the LPGA Priority List and 73% from the Rolex Rankings.
Seventeen of the top twenty players from this week's Rolex Rankings will be teeing it up.
Former winners of an LPGA event who are not teeing it up this week:
Lexi Thompson
Danielle Kang (Health)
Austin Ernst (injury)
Stacy Lewis
Cydney Clanton
Brittany Lincicome (Maturnity)
Na Yeon Choi
Brittany Lang
Mirim Lee
Pernilla Lindberg
Mi Jung Hur
Hee Young Park
Michelle Wie-West
Other Notes:
Jennifer Kupcho's win at the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational, makes her the first three time winner on the LPGA Tour this year.
The win by Kupcho/Salas was the 5th tournament win by the United States this year. The Republic of Korea is second with four (yes, this only counts as one win even though we had two winners).
Lexi Thompson missed the cut at the Dow ending her cut streak at 29.
Hye-Jin Choi's top ten finish was her 8th of the year, which is tops on the LPGA Tour. She is still 53 points behind Atthaya Thitikul for Rookie of the Year honors.
Since the Dow tournament didn't count in the Rolex Rankings I will skip that report this week.
I will make a note though of the huge impact the tournament did have on some LPGA players. As we know, you have to finish in the top 100 in the Race to the CME Globe to retain your full playing privileges for next year.
Maria Fassi was the big winner here with her third place finish, moving from 140 to 84, pretty much guaranteeing her status for next year.
Others who took full advantage:
Sofia Popov 107-92
Sarah Kemp 108-93
Dewi Weber 120-94
Elizabeth Szokel 146-97
Tiffany Chan 153-107
My breakdown is 87% from the LPGA Priority List and 73% from the Rolex Rankings.
Seventeen of the top twenty players from this week's Rolex Rankings will be teeing it up.
Former winners of an LPGA event who are not teeing it up this week:
Lexi Thompson
Danielle Kang (Health)
Austin Ernst (injury)
Stacy Lewis
Cydney Clanton
Brittany Lincicome (Maturnity)
Na Yeon Choi
Brittany Lang
Mirim Lee
Pernilla Lindberg
Mi Jung Hur
Hee Young Park
Michelle Wie-West
Other Notes:
Jennifer Kupcho's win at the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational, makes her the first three time winner on the LPGA Tour this year.
The win by Kupcho/Salas was the 5th tournament win by the United States this year. The Republic of Korea is second with four (yes, this only counts as one win even though we had two winners).
Lexi Thompson missed the cut at the Dow ending her cut streak at 29.
Hye-Jin Choi's top ten finish was her 8th of the year, which is tops on the LPGA Tour. She is still 53 points behind Atthaya Thitikul for Rookie of the Year honors.
Since the Dow tournament didn't count in the Rolex Rankings I will skip that report this week.
I will make a note though of the huge impact the tournament did have on some LPGA players. As we know, you have to finish in the top 100 in the Race to the CME Globe to retain your full playing privileges for next year.
Maria Fassi was the big winner here with her third place finish, moving from 140 to 84, pretty much guaranteeing her status for next year.
Others who took full advantage:
Sofia Popov 107-92
Sarah Kemp 108-93
Dewi Weber 120-94
Elizabeth Szokel 146-97
Tiffany Chan 153-107
) She's going with Jack Clarke. 
MJ Uribe is off this week, but Ivan Galdame landed a decent bag with Ruixin Liu. Sarah Kemp keeping it in the "family" with Lisa Cornwell. 
Frida Kinhult left Jackie Schram at home for Mikael Kinhult (her daddy, I assume ... older bro Marcus is a pro in Europe). Ex-MHL loop Harry Ewing going with Amanda Doherty, good move.