2024 Professional Golf Tournaments (LPGA, Korn Ferry Tour) in New Jersey

2024 SHOPRITE LPGA CLASSIC AT SEAVIEW BAY COURSE, JUNE 7-9 Winner: Linnea Strom

 

 

A LOOK AT THE CHAMPION

CATEGORY

Linnea Strom

2024 Race to CME Globe Rank

21

2024 LPGA Tour Wins

1

2024 LPGA Tour Top 10s

1

2024 Season Earnings

$322,499

Career LPGA Tour Wins

1

Career LPGA Tour Top 10s

6

Career Money (LPGA)

$1,415,093

Career LET Wins

0

Career Epson Tour Wins

2

 

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

 

2024 Mizuho Championship at Liberty National- May 16-19- Winner: Nelly Korda

 Nelly Korda won a back nine showdown with Hannah Green of Australia with a par on the 18th hole to capture the Mizuho Americas Open by a stroke for her sixth win in seven starts on the LPGA Tour this year.

The victory made the 25-year-old Korda the first player since Inbee Park (2013) to record six wins in a single season. Korda also bounced back from seeing her record-tying five-tournament winning streak snapped last week by Rose Zhang at the Cognizant Founders Cup. Zhang withdrew from the tournament on the first day due to an intestinal virus. The AJGA portion of the event was won by 16-year old phenom Gianna Clemente.

and the 2024 Magnit Championship at Metedeconk Golf Club in Jackson, NJ - August 15-18

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