A LOOK AT THE CHAMPION

ABOUT THE CHAMPION

Rolex Rankings No. 165 Linnea Strom

• She hit 11 of 14 fairways and 12 of 18 greens, with 20 putts
• She becomes the season’s second Rolex First-Time Winner, joining Bailey Tardy (Blue Bay LPGA)
• With her final-round 60, Strom sets the LPGA Tour record for lowest final round by a winner
  • The previous record was a final-round 61 (-10), recorded by Inbee Park at the 2014 Manulife Financial LPGA Classic
  • The 60 is also the seventh raw 18-hole score of 60 or better in Tour history, and the first recorded since Jessica Korda (R3, 2021 Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions)
• She breaks the record for the biggest comeback by position entering the final round of an LPGA Tour event since 1984 after starting the day at T52
  • The previous best comeback by position on Tour entering the final round since 1984 was T23 (Ayako Okamoto, 1987 Lady Keystone Open)
• She is the 15th different player from Sweden to earn at least one LPGA Tour victory
  • She is the first Swedish Tour winner since Linn Grant at the 2023 Dana Open
• At 27Y/7M/26D, she is the oldest winner on Tour since Amy Yang at the 2023 CME Group Tour Championship (34Y/3M/22D)
• Strom had a win probability of 0.001% entering Sunday (T52, -3)
• Entering the ShopRite LPGA Classic, she had made just one cut in her last six starts
  • She finished in a tie for 76th at the JM Eagle LA Championship
• This was her 12th event of the 2024 season
• This is her sixth season on the LPGA Tour
  • First earned Membership after finishing fifth on the Epson Tour’s 2018 Race for the Card
  • She is a two-time Epson Tour winner
  • As an amateur, she led the Arizona Sun Devils to the program’s eighth NCAA National Championship
    • She was also the 2016 Pac-12 Individual champion and a two-time First Team All-American

THINGS TO KNOW

• Linnea Strom was one of two Swedes to win in professional golf on Sunday
  • Linn Grant won the DP World and Ladies European Tour’s Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed
  • Grant became the first woman to win two DPWT titles
• Ayaka Furue shot a bogey-free 65 to finish in a tie for second (-13)
  • Her T2 finish is her result on Tour since finishing runner-up to Pajaree Anannarukarn at the 2023 T-Mobile Match Play presented by MGM Rewards
  • Her 65 ties her season-best 18-hole score, last recorded in the final round of the Blue Bay LPGA in March
  • This is her third-straight top-10 finish, and seventh top-8 result this season
  • She ranks third in the Race to CME Globe, the best place of anyone without a victory this year