2022 Pelican Women’s Championship

My field rating for this tournament is a solid 67%. My breakdown is 76% from the LPGA Priority List and 58% from the Rolex Rankings.

Seven of the top ten players from this week's Rolex Rankings will be teeing it up.

Players not teeing it up this week include:
Atthaya Thitikul 
MinJee Lee
Nasa Hataoka
Inbee Park
Danielle Kang
Jeongeun Lee 6
Georgia Hall
Charley Hull
Chelly Choi

Other Stuff:
With the win last weekend by Gemma Driver we now have a record 14 different countries in the winner's circle this year. Gemma was also the 11th first time winner, tying the all-time record.
With only 2 tournaments left to play, the USA has wrapped up the title for the second consecutive year with 7 wins. The Republic of Korea is second with four.

With her sixth consecutive top ten finish. Atthaya Thitikul has increased her lead over Hye-Jin Choi 1537 to1287. Atthaya is off this week but it will probably take 2 victories to overtake her. 

Not much movement in the Rolex Rankings;
LinnGrant makes the most important move jumping from 37 to 25.

Other moves by non LPGA players include:
So MI Lee 57 to 48
Jung Min Hong 79 to 73
Momoko Ueda 85 to 74
Gemma Dryburgh jumped into the top 100 with a jump from 199 to 92. Ga Eun Song dropped out.

Tournament name still sounds to me like some nasty insult. As in get away from me you crazy ...

Caddie list is out ... MHL with Nicolas Pereira ... don't know that name, had to look him up ... was with Paula Reto during first half of 2022, but got dumped before she won the Canuck Open ... bounced around recently with Mo Martin and A Lim Kim.  Speaking of ALK, she picked up Mercer Leftwich ... don't recall them teaming up before.  Maybe Kristy McPherson is ready to quit as she'll be toting Bam Bam's bag ... interesting that Lincicome's long-time looper, Missy Pederson, is working this week for Caroline Masson ... what's that about?  Last but not least, Waitwait Zhang, who has not played the LPGA since Walmart in September, has someone with a Chinese name, but not the guy she had at Cognizant.

Update on my previous post. Atthaya thitikul has officially won the Louise Suggs Rookie of the Year award. With 2 victories and a tour leading 15 top tens, it was certainly well deserved.

Of course, it was too bad that had to postpone the tournament, but it was interesting to re-watch the last round of last year's event. How impressive was Nelly to bounce back from a triple bogey on 17 to birdie 18 and get into the playoff and then birdie the hole again from practically the same position to win it in the playoff. By contrast, how amateurish Lexi was by bogeying the last hole to drop into a playoff and then failing to birdie her putt on the playoff hole from the same position on the green.

Suh Oh's clubs are rubbish.

Round 2

Not exactly a scintillating week developing here... Jin Young needs to get a reality check and skip the CME, but I don't think she will. In Gee was OK. She doesn't seem to get a lot of top tens or wins, but she sure finishes often in the 15th-35th range. Well, she's been injured, so hopefully she can notch a good week.

Hyo Joo is three back and, as usual, there's only one Sister in the top ten. I think it's been 14 straight weeks since a Korean won. Fingers crossed that Hyo Joo can rally Sunday.

Hwaiting!