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Tune in to watch as the LPGA Tour tees it up for their first major championship of the 2024 season.  The Club at Carlton Woods plays host to The Chevron Championship. The 132-player field, highlighted by 10 of the top 10 in the Rolex Women’s World Rankings, will compete for a $7.9 million purse. 

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The Chevron Championship arrives as the LPGA Tour is in Nelly Korda's orbit. The 25-year-old has won her last four starts in a row, starting at the LPGA Drive On in January. Then Korda took seven weeks off and returned to the tour by winning the LPGA's last three events: the Fir Hills Se Ri Pak Championship , the Ford Championship and the T-Mobile LPGA Match Play . The 12-time LPGA winner is the top player in the game, and, spoiler alert, I might not have a job if I didn't put Korda at No. 1 in these Chevron power rankings.

Recent history, however, stands against Korda earning her fifth consecutive title this week. Lydia Ko's 2016 ANA Inspiration victory was the last time anyone who was No. 1 in the Rolex Women's World Rankings won a major. But Korda is clearly in her own tier at the moment, with a chance to move her 2024 campaign into the Annika Sorenstam and Lorena Ochoa echelon of great years with the calendar still in April. The American showed comfort at Carlton Woods last year during the tour's first visit to The Woodlands, Texas, with a third-place finish.

Meantime, Ko continues her march toward reaching the LPGA Hall of Fame, and a victory this week would be a fitting way to secure that honor.

Here are our top 25 players heading into the LPGA's first major of the season.

25. Andrea Lee

Rolex Rankings: 40; Chevron starts: 6; Best finish: T-56, 2023

Lee is a consistent performer early on this season, with three top-10s, including a T-5 at Palos Verdes Golf Club, her home course, at the Se Ri Pak Championship. The 2022 Portland Classic winner still needs to translate that consistency to majors, looking for the third top-10 of her career in her 22nd start. Her T-56 in 2023 was the first made cut of her career in the Chevron.

24. Mi Hyang Lee

Rolex Rankings: 66; Chevron starts: 10; Best finish: 2nd, 2019; '23 Finish : MC

The South Korean has a pair of T-3s this season at the HSBC and the Ford Championship, the first time she's posted two top-3s during one campaign in her 13-year career. In a resurgent season, the two-time LPGA winner has moved up the world rankings from 132nd at the start of 2024 to 67th.

23. Sarah Schmelzel

Rolex Rankings: 62; Chevron starts: 5; Best finish: T-25, 2021; '23 Finish : MC

Schmelzel is in impressive company in the early part of 2024. The 29-year-old is tied with Brooke Henderson, Ayaka Furue, and Korda for the most top-10s (four) on tour. She posted a career-best finish with a runner-up at the Blue Bay LPGA. This year is already the most top-10s the five-year veteran has had in a season, totaling 12 in her career.

22. Amy Yang

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Rolex Rankings: 15; Chevron starts: 14; Best finish: T-4, 2012 and 2023

The 2023 CME Group Tour Championship winner is one of the most consistent major performers on the LPGA without a major title in hand. Yang has 21 top-10s, including 12 top-5s, since winning low amateur at the 2006 Women's British. The five-time LPGA winner has yet to contend in 2024, with a best finish of T-23 in at the Honda LPGA Thailand.

21. Ruoning Yin

Rolex Rankings: 4; Chevron starts: 1; Best finish: T-41, 2023

The 2023 Women's PGA Championship winner enters the first major off a challenging finish in her title defense at Palos Verdes Golf Club. While leading, Yin triple bogeyed the 18th hole Saturday and shot a final-round 73 to tie for eighth. It's the 21-year-old's only top-10 of the season in seven starts. Her strokes dropped from third place on tour in 2023 (1.87) to 48th (0.52) this season.

20. Allisen Corpuz

Rolex Rankings: 17; Chevron starts: 1; Best finish: T-4, 2023

The signs of Corpuz breaking through at Pebble Beach for her U.S. Women's Open title started at last year's Chevron, where the American was the 54-hole leader. Corpuz's Sunday 74 put her two strokes out of the playoff. Knocking Corpuz down this list are her recent struggles at the end of the LPGA's west coast swing, posting a T-40 and T-60 over her last two starts.

19. Atthaya Thitikul

Rolex Rankings: 10; Chevron starts: 3; Best finish: T-4, 2023

It's hard to evaluate the former World No. 1, considering Chevron will be her first start anywhere in the 2024 season. The Thai won the 2023 Vare Trophy, awarded to the player with the lowest scoring average on tour, without any victories. Thitikul closed her season on a high note, posting four top-5s in her final five starts to end her campaign.

18. Charley Hull

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Rolex Rankings: 7; Chevron starts: 10; Best finish: T-2, 2016; '23 Finish : MC

Hull notched a pair of major runners-up last year, pushing Corpuz down the stretch at Pebble Beach and sharing the 54-hole lead at the AIG Women's Open with Lilia Vu before losing by six. Hull continued her strong play early in the '24 season with a pair of top-10s before a back injury forced her to WD from the Ford. Hopefully, the two-week break gave the Englishwoman some needed reprieve before the Chevron.

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17. Angel Yin

Rolex Rankings: 20; Chevron starts: 9; Best finish: 2nd (playoff loss), 2023

Yin made her first start of 2024 at the LPGA Match play, sitting out the beginning of the year on the mend. She says she now carries the ball about 20 yards farther off the tee than before the injury, a discovery the 2023 Buick Shanghai LPGA winner made during two weeks of practice before the recent Match Play. She was the only player to take Korda to the 16th hole on the weekend ahead of returning to the home of her best major finish, last year’s Chevron playoff loss to Lilia Vu.

16. Megan Khang

Rolex Rankings: 13 Chevron starts: 8 Best finish: T-9, 2023

Khang earned her first career victory at the CPKC Women's Open last August and had a breakthrough season at the majors in 2023. It was the first time in her career she posted three top-10s at majors, including a T-9 at Carlton Woods and a T-3 at the Women's PGA. The 26-year-old continued her strong play with a third place at the LPGA Drive On Championship in January, one of three top-15 finishes in five starts in 2024.

15. Ayaka Furue

Rolex Rankings: 22; Chevron starts: 2; Best finish: T-44, 2022; '23 Finish : T-52

Furue may be the most consistent player on tour without a win this season. The Japanese native has finished in the top 30 in all eight events she has played, highlighted by three top-5s and a third-place finish at the Blue Bay LPGA. The 2022 Women's Scottish Open winner posted two top-10s at majors last year, but hasn't figured out the Chevron yet.

14. Minjee Lee

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Rolex Rankings: 5; Chevron starts: 10; Best finish: T-3, 2017; '23 Finish : T-41

Lee made only two domestic starts in 2024, including a T-15 in Las Vegas. She enters the Chevron off a down major season for her last year, where 2023 was the first time since 2019 that the 10-time winner did not post a top-10 at a major. Lee's finish at Carlton Woods (T-41) was the second-worst major result of her season.

13. Allison Lee

Rolex Rankings: 14; Chevron starts: 8; Best finish: T-8, 2022; '23 Finish : MC

The only thing stopping Lee's run since the end of the 2023 season is a dog bite. Lee's boyfriend's dog bit her left hand during the offseason, extending the 29-year-old's break to the opening Asia swing. Outside of her T-51 to begin the season in Singapore, Lee's finished in the top 10 in five of her last seven starts, including three consecutive runners-up to finish 2023. The American's new-found confidence, fueled partly by cornerman Freddie Couples, has put Lee in a position to contend week in and week out.

12. Jiyai Shin

Rolex Rankings: 18; Chevron starts: 9; Best finish: T-5, 2010; '23 Finish : N/A

The former World No. 1 made her first start in a domestic regular LPGA event since 2013 at the Se Ri Pak Fir Hills Championship and was tied for the 54-hole lead before Korda won the title. Shin has been finding success whenever she plays on the LPGA lately: The 35-year-old has finished in the top 5 in five of her last seven starts, including a T-2 at the U.S. Women's Open.

11. Hyo Joo Kim

Rolex Rankings: 9 Chevron starts: 8 Best finish: T-6, 2019 '23 Finish : 11th

Kim is one of the most consistent major performers on the LPGA in the past five seasons. Over her last 20 major starts, dating back to the end of 2018, the South Korean has only finished outside of the top 30 twice. She's amassed 10 top-10s over that span, including narrowly missing out on her 11th at last year's Chevron. However, as much time as she spends at the top of major leaderboards, Kim has only one win: the 2014 Evian Championship, the first major appearance of her career.

10. Hannah Green

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Rolex Rankings: 16; Chevron starts: 6; Best finish: T-8, 2022; '23 Finish : MC

The Australian heads into the Chevron in form, even with only four starts this season. Green notched her fourth career victory at the HSBC Women's World Championship in late February, closing with three consecutive 67s to win by a stroke. The 2019 Women's PGA winner shot a 61, the lowest round of her career, just two weeks ago during the second round of the Ford Championship.

9. Patty Tavatanakit

Rolex Rankings: 24; Chevron starts: 5; Best finish: Win, 2021; '23 Finish : T-41

The long-bombing Thai made her mark by averaging over 320 yards in her California desert win in the 2021 ANA Inspiration, becoming the second major champion from her homeland alongside Ariya Jutanugarn. She showed initial mastery of Carlton Woods in 2023, sitting in fourth through 36 holes at last year's Chevron before a 77-76 weekend.

8. Rose Zhang

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Rolex Rankings: 21; Chevron starts: 2; Best finish: T-11 2020; '23 Finish : DNP

Zhang makes her Carlton Woods debut following a rookie season with impressive major consistency. The Mizuho Americas Open winner posted top-10s in three of her four major appearances: T-9s in the U.S. Women's Open and the Evian, and a T-8 in the Women's PGA. Returning to tour play following attending classes at Stanford, Zhang ended her three-tournament run by making the quarterfinals of the LPGA Match Play.

7. Sei Young Kim

Rolex Rankings: 34; Chevron starts: 10; Best finish: T-3, 2021; '23 Finish : T-52

The 13-time LPGA winner is having a renaissance season. Kim has finished in the top 20 in all six starts this year, including a T-3 at the Honda LPGA Thailand. The 31-year-old won at least once yearly from 2015 to 2020, including her first major title at the 2020 Women's PGA. The South Korean's resurgence shows in her strokes gained, as Kim sits in third on the LPGA this season (2.08) compared to 39th last year (0.58).

6. Jin Young Ko

Rolex Rankings: 6; Chevron starts: 7; Best finish: Win, 2019; '23 Finish : T-9

Ko is one of the most dominant players of the current LPGA era. However, the South Korean has mostly been missing in action this season, making her domestic debut this week and only making two starts during the opening Asia swing. Ko's last event was a T-8 at the HSBC Women's World Championship in Singapore in February. The 15-time winner has finished in the top 10 at majors in nine of her last 20 starts.

5. Celine Boutier

Rolex Rankings: 3; Chevron starts: 6; Best finish: T-4, 2022; '23 Finish : T-14

The 2023 Evian Championship winner continued her excellent run to finish last season with a runner-up at the HSBC Women's Championship in early March. Boutier won four times last year, including three victories over a seven-start stretch.

4. Lilia Vu

Rolex Rankings: 2; Chevron starts: 4; Best finish: Win, 2023

Vu has proven that form matters less for her when heading into majors. The defending champion missed back-to-back cuts at last year's U.S. Women's Open and KPMG Women's PGA before T-42 and T-35 finishes ahead of the AIG Women's Open. There, Vu became the first American to win two majors in a season since Juli Inkster in 1999. The four-time winner follows a similar path to her first major title defense: a pair of WDs due to her back in Southeast Asia, then a T-37 in Southern California, and a T-21 at the Ford before two weeks off ahead of the Chevron.

3. Brooke Henderson

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Rolex Rankings: 12; Chevron starts: 9; Best finish: Playoff loss, 2020; '23 Finish : T-23

The Canadian has already amassed more top-10 finishes this year than last season, earning four in her first seven starts of 2024. That run of consistency is generally a sign that the 13-time winner is close to entering the winner's circle; Henderson last had such a stretch in the summer of 2022, when she won both the Shoprite LPGA Classic and the Amundi Evian Championship.

2. Lydia Ko

Rolex Rankings: 8; Chevron starts: 11; Best finish: Win, 2016; '23 Finish : MC

Allergies got to Ko on her first trip to The Woodlands last year, where she missed the cut for the first time in 11 starts in the event. Bringing more allergy meds isn't the only change for the Kiwi in 2024, as her game is much better. She already has more wins (one) and top-5s (three) in six starts than her 2023 campaign.

1. Nelly Korda

Rolex Rankings: 1; Chevron starts: 8; Best finish: Playoff loss, 2020; '23 Finish : 3rd

Korda's game is the dreadnought of the LPGA after winning four events in five starts, and she sits in waters to let her talents flourish. With rain in the forecast, Carlton Woods portends to be another lengthy slog, requiring plenty of carry to maximize distance off the tee. With the 2021 Women's PGA champion's towering ball flight, Korda remains a heavy, heavy favorite.

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'to come out and win this week is really the dream start to 2023,' she says.

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Brooke Henderson has had the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions circled on her calendar for eight weeks.

The Canadian golf superstar has always enjoyed the elite, 29-player pro-am event that starts the LPGA Tour season, but had never won it. She was also looking forward to returning to competitive golf after playing through a sore back at the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship on Nov. 19.

She more than met that challenge.

Henderson led the Tournament of Champions from wire to wire in Orlando, Fla., finishing the fourth round 2-under 70 on Sunday for an overall score of 16-under par, four shots better than Sweden's Maja Stark and England's Charley Hull. Her 13 professional victories are the most in Canadian golf history.

"I was really looking forward to playing this week," said Henderson, who was elevated to the top spot on the Race to CME Globe rankings (LPGA standings) on Monday. "I always love this event. It's so unique and fun playing alongside celebrities and the atmosphere, it's just a lot different than a regular LPGA tournament.

"To come out and win this week is really the dream start to 2023 and hopefully I can just keep it going."

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Henderson, whose 13 professional wins are the most in Canadian golf history, said it's a goal to win at least two tournaments each year.

The 25-year-old from Smiths Falls, Ont., won twice on the LPGA Tour last year, at the ShopRite LPGA Classic on June 12 and the Evian Championship on July 24.

"My goal is always to win a couple of times every year, hopefully more than twice, so maybe this year will be the year when I can win more than twice out on tour," said Henderson, who said that she and her sister Brittany, who serves as her caddy, are looking forward to playing the Honda LPGA Thailand on Feb. 23 and the HSBC Women's World Championship on March 2.

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"Hopefully we'll be able to go out there and continue the momentum that we built up this week, and fire some low scores and see what happens."

Henderson finished 2022 seventh in the Rolex rankings and third in the Race to CME Globe rankings. She remains seventh in the Rolex rankings, which evaluate a player's performance over a rolling two-year period weighted in favour of the current year.

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On top of addressing her ailing back, Henderson switched to TaylorMade clubs and had her wisdom teeth pulled during the winter break.

"The off-season was really busy. Lots of things happening, a lot of big changes," said Henderson. "But I couldn't be happier with the start this week with the new clubs and I felt confident with them."

Stark has committed herself to adding multiple hours each week to her time spent practising putting, and it showed in her hot play over the final nine holes. Three over through seven, she birdied six of her final 10 holes.

"It gives me a lot of confidence," Stark said. "I feel I've had a good week with my driver and some good irons. The putting, too. I feel like if it keeps going like this, it could be the best year yet."

Hull was pleased with her finish given the challenges of trying to get her game ready in England in mid-winter. She spent three days practising in Morocco before continuing to Orlando.

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Retired tennis player Mardy Fish of the United States won the celebrity side of the pro-am tournament. He ran away with the celebrity division, making 152 points in the Modified Stableford format. Fish also won the title two years ago. Former MLB pitcher Mark Mulder (136 points) was runner-up.

Annika Sorenstam, a 72-time winner on the LPGA and Lake Nona resident who played among the celebrities and athletes, tied for third with military veteran Chad Pfeifer.

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NAPLES, Fla. – Amy Yang battles something she calls “ego talk.” It’s the stuff she tells herself that gets in the way when the pressure is on. She dealt with it early on Sunday at the CME Group Tour Championship, when she doubted herself and wondered if the day would end with just another close call.

This time, however, Yang shut down that ego talk.

“This is very meaningful,” said Yang in her new bright blue blazer, the CME trophy by her side and a $2 million cardboard check somewhere nearby.

Yang, 34, stayed strong down the stretch mentally at Tiburon Golf Club, where she holed out for eagle on the 13 th hole and birdied the last two to win by three over Alison Lee and Nasa Hataoka. It was Yang’s first LPGA title since 2019, her fifth overall, and her first on U.S. soil.

Amy Yang of Korea celebrates with the CME Globe trophy and her check during the trophy ceremony after winning the CME Group Tour Championship at Tiburon Golf Club on November 19, 2023 in Naples, Florida. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

For Lee, finishing runner-up in her last three LPGA events felt bittersweet. While she’s playing the best golf of her life, that elusive first LPGA victory remains out of reach.

Good friend Megan Khang, who finally broke through with her first victory earlier this year at the CPKC Women’s Open in her 191 st career start, sat in on Lee’s post-round press conference.

“This isn’t really a question,” said Khang as she took the mic, “but as a friend, I am a proud of you. You’ve been playing so good, Alison. It’s coming.”

An emotional Lee, who made her 179 th career start at the CME, has credited new friend Fred Couples with helping instill the confidence she’s felt in recent months, noting that he texts her daily with words of encouragement.

“So many times I would joke around saying I’m just never going to win out here,” said Lee, who was a standout amateur player at UCLA before turning professional. “I really didn’t think I could ever do it.

“But to play the last three weeks just continuously putting the pressure on everyone on the leaderboard and putting myself in contention has just been really cool for me and been a really awesome experience.”

It wasn’t long ago that Yang, who suffered from tennis elbow after too much rock climbing, wondered if her career might come to an end earlier than expected. She also wondered how much longer she wanted to keep grinding through tour life.

Longtime coach Tony Ziegler told her life’s too short to keep playing if she wasn’t happy. She needed to make a decision.

Two weeks later, Yang came back and told him that she wanted to keep playing and she wanted to win. Ziegler repeated what he’s said to her often in recent years: “Your best golf is ahead of you.”

“Back in the day,” said Ziegler, “when she played really good golf, she had a lot of pressure and expectation, and she didn’t know how to deal with it.

“As she’s gotten older, she knows how to deal with it.”

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The woman who had a smiley face stitched on the front of her visors beamed after that final-round 66. She finished at 27-under 261 for the tournament, shattering the event’s previous record by four shots.

For a long time, Yang was always in the best-to-never-win-a-major conversation on the LPGA. With 21 top-10 finishes at the majors, including two top 5s this season, she mostly flies under the radar at big events now.

“She’s just at ease with herself, no pressure, no expectation,” said Ziegler. “Basically playing for herself.”

Yang enjoyed a champagne bath on the 18 th green after many of her friends came out to celebrate. Even before the injury, a burned-out Yang wondered if it might be best to retire. In time, she learned how to create a more balanced life, and wrapped up her 16 th season on tour looking like a woman who has more time to shine.

  “ You know,” said Yang, “I still can’t believe I did it.”

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Lilia Vu (back) withdraws from LPGA Chevron Championship

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THE WOODLANDS, Texas -- Defending champion and world No. 2 Lilia Vu withdrew from the Chevron Championship on Thursday before the first round because of a back injury.

The LPGA announced her withdrawal, saying the back injury she's been dealing with "flared up" during warmups. The back issue forced her to withdraw from a previous event this season.

"I have been dealing with a back injury for a while now," Vu posted to Instagram on Thursday. "Some days are better than others, and today was unfortunately not a good day. During my normal warmup routine, I had severe discomfort in my back and I felt that I could not compete up to my standards and made the decision to withdraw from the tournament ahead of my tee time."

She added that she was returning home immediately to see her doctors and determine the next steps.

The back issue forced her to withdraw from a previous event this season.

The 26-year-old American was asked about her health leading up to the tournament on Tuesday.

"It's been a rough couple months battling with my injury," she said. "It's been a little scary. I've definitely cried a lot on the range sometimes because my back just couldn't hold up."

She added that she felt "95% there."

Vu was the LPGA player of the year last season. She won the Women's Open Championship after her Chevron victory.