2019 BMW Ladies Championship Oct 24 - 27

**Race to the CME Globe:** 500 Points

**Format:** 72 holes

**Purse:** $2,000,000

**Location:** LPGA International Busan, Busan, Korea

**Par:** 72

**Yardage:** 6,726

**History:** This is the inaugural year for the event.

**Coverage:**

Oct 24: The Golf Channel 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm (ET)

Oct 25: The Golf Channel 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm (ET)

Oct 26: The Golf Channel 3:00 pm - 6:30 pm (ET)

Oct 27: The Golf Channel 3:00 pm - 6:30 pm (ET)

This should be an exciting wee. I expect crowds to be fairly large. There are 30 KLPGA members in the field, so we get a chance to see some of the local talent. There are 15 of the World's Top 20 in the field. Sung Hyun, Nasa, Lexi, and Inbee are sitting out.

Thursday and Friday look like their going to be wet, but things should dry out for the weekend. Temps will be chilly in the morning, but push near 70 in the afternoon.

TV coverage is good news, bad news. We'll get 8 1/2 hours of coverage for the first two rounds, and 7 hours on the weekend, but it's tape delayed over 12 hours. 'Going to be difficult to avoid spoilers.

My pick this week is Hye Jin Choi. She's had a fantastic season on the KLPGA, and I'm sure she'd love to secure an LPGA card with a win. Ayean Cho should also be in the hunt. I think Ariya might surprise.

> @Argonne69 said:

> I think Ariya might surprise.

Only a fool would be surprised by a win from Ariya.

These inaugural events are tough pickings. Hopefully Ha Na Jang plays well, would love to see her pull another one off. I gotta go with Sei Young. Looking for Yu,MJ, and So Yeon to climb the boards. Obviously expecting nothing higher than a T10 from JYK.

Maybe this is the week she puts together 4 solid rounds: Amy Yang for the win! Dark horse: Celine Boutier.

Rooting for a Ji Hyun Kim win, with top 5s from Hana Jang and Char Young Kim. How is Sung Hyun getting away with not teeing it up in this event?

I'm hoping we really do get to see some nice coverage of the KLPGA players. It always feels like this massive sister-golf-world that you know is out there, but don't get to see much of.

Not that I need more players, lots of my favorites playing here. Hoping for good things!

> @AWinfortheAges said:

> Rooting for a Ji Hyun Kim win, with top 5s from Hana Jang and Char Young Kim. How is Sung Hyun getting away with not teeing it up in this event?

Good question. Sung Hyun played 3 weeks ago at the VoA, and two weeks ago in Korea at the Hite Jinro Championship. She didn't play last week in Shanghai or in Korea at the KB Championship, so she should be rested.

Leaderboard looks like something out of West Side Story - the Lees versus the Kims

The Lees:

Minjee

Jeongeon 6

Seung Yeon

Somi

Jung Min

So Young

Mirim

Mi Hyang

Gayoung

Da Yeon

The Kims

Sei Young

IK

Min Sun5

Bo Ah

Ye Jin

HJ

A Lim

Ji Hyun

Ji Yeong2

Char Young2

So Yi

All we need now is some singing and dancing and a street fight.....

Ok played in Korea,but the asian dominance on the leaderboard in this LPGA tournament is pretty decisive.

> @pmcuk said:

> Leaderboard looks like something out of West Side Story - the Lees versus the Kims

>

> The Lees:

> Minjee

> Jeongeon 6

> Seung Yeon

> Somi

> Jung Min

> So Young

> Mirim

> Mi Hyang

> Gayoung

> Da Yeon

>

> The Kims

> Sei Young

> IK

> Min Sun5

> Bo Ah

> Ye Jin

> HJ

> A Lim

> Ji Hyun

> Ji Yeong2

> Char Young2

> So Yi

>

> All we need now is some singing and dancing and a street fight.....

>

>

>

>

Is that you, Hank? :)

Nice to see Minjee at the top of the leaderboard. After a hot start to the season, she cooled off quite a bit. Jin Young, Danielle, and 6ix had very nice opening rounds as well. There are four KLPGA regulars in the top 10, and 7 in the top 20, so they're holding their own, no surprise.

As expected, it was cold and wet for the first round. 'Plenty of rain and cold weather gear.

Sucks having the coverage tape delayed until late this afternoon.

> @Argonne69 said:

> Nice to see Minjee at the top of the leaderboard. After a hot start to the season, she cooled off quite a bit. Jin Young, Danielle, and 6ix had very nice opening rounds as well. There are four KLPGA regulars in the top 10, and 7 in the top 20, so they're holding their own, no surprise.

>

> As expected, it was cold and wet for the first round. 'Plenty of rain and cold weather gear.

>

> Sucks having the coverage tape delayed until late this afternoon.

True. Watching the majority of the tourney on the livestream, but wouldn't dare give details to avoid being a buzzkill to those waiting for the tape-delay.

Can someone please tell Karen Stupples that it is not necessary to talk non-stop. My mute button is getting worn out!

> @Hankshank said:

> Ok played in Korea,but the asian dominance on the leaderboard in this LPGA tournament is pretty decisive.

But last week in Shanghai was American dominated. So?

Exciting first round. I love seeing LPGA in Korea. We see the best players, from all countries, with THE big, enthusiastic galleries they deserve. Anyway, I am back viewing this week after my provider, KAYO, decided not to show the Shanghai event last week.

The young Korean, Lee7 and Hye Jin Choi, are two of my favourite players. I heard the Aussie commentators say that Choi is 2nd in driving distance on the KLPGA with....252 yards. Can that be true? Frankly, I don't believe it. Typo error in their briefing note! Immediately after they said that she knocked a couple out 270+. I saw her chasing down Jin Young Ko at the 2018 Australian Open, and she hit a 270 m (300 y) drive and then 230 m (255 y) 3-wood to reach a par 5. There was no wind assistance.

Despite my adoration for Choi and Lee6, go Minjee!!

Definitely a typo, or more likely they didn't note that it was in meters (273 yds). Hye Jin is a fairly long hitter. Edit: they corrected themselves, noting that it should be in meters.

Curious if she'll give the LPGA a go. As they mentioned, she's won four times this year. She'll lock up the money title, and then???

I'm liking the coverage so far. Plenty of players featured, although it can always be better.

> @Kaysquare said:

> Can someone please tell Karen Stupples that it is not necessary to talk non-stop. My mute button is getting worn out!

Lol. Karen is not in the booth. This is the Australian crew.

Edit: Oops, sorry Kaysquare. My bad. It is Karen. Alison isn't helping things. They're both quite chatty.

Alison Whitaker on the topic of players losing weight. "You can pull a muscle, but you can't pull fat". I never thought of it that way, lol.

Is there a flat lie on the course? I bet the tee boxes are slanted.

No, Karen. Danielle hasn't always been consistent. If anything, her inconsistency was holding her back. She was very prone to blow up holes in her first few years on tour.

Jin Young is sneaky long. She outdrove Hye Jin and Danielle on most holes.

That was some excellent coverage. Excessive yakking aside, we saw a ton of shots. The commercial breaks were ~2 minutes in length, and there was a minimum of fluff pieces, so it was almost nonstop golf. The late finishing players got the worst of the weather, but they still managed some good scoring. Hoping for more tomorrow.

> @"Raving Shanker" said:

> Exciting first round. I love seeing LPGA in Korea. We see the best players, from all countries, with THE big, enthusiastic galleries they deserve. Anyway, I am back viewing this week after my provider, KAYO, decided not to show the Shanghai event last week.

>

> The young Korean, Lee7 and Hye Jin Choi.

Isn’t it lee6? Or is there another newer lee?

> @musclefront said:

> Isn’t it lee6? Or is there another newer lee?

There are 10 Lees in the game already. Any more Lees and the numbering is going to look like New York street names.

Nice to see Ha Na Jang up near the top. I miss her a lot.

> @musclefront said:

> > @"Raving Shanker" said:

> > Exciting first round. I love seeing LPGA in Korea. We see the best players, from all countries, with THE big, enthusiastic galleries they deserve. Anyway, I am back viewing this week after my provider, KAYO, decided not to show the Shanghai event last week.

> >

> > The young Korean, Lee7 and Hye Jin Choi.

>

> Isn’t it lee6? Or is there another newer lee?

Er...em...I meant Lee6! There is no Lee7 that I know of, despite the preponderance of Lees!!

Interesting leaderboard. I won't post names until today's round has aired, but it's turning into a great battle between the LPGA regulars and the KLPGA regulars. Heck, maybe they should have had a tournament within a tournament and had an LPGA vs. KLPGA team event.

The weather appears to have gotten better.

> @"Raving Shanker" said:

> > @musclefront said:

> > > @"Raving Shanker" said:

> > > Exciting first round. I love seeing LPGA in Korea. We see the best players, from all countries, with THE big, enthusiastic galleries they deserve. Anyway, I am back viewing this week after my provider, KAYO, decided not to show the Shanghai event last week.

> > >

> > > The young Korean, Lee7 and Hye Jin Choi.

> >

> > Isn’t it lee6? Or is there another newer lee?

>

> Er...em...I meant Lee6! There is no Lee7 that I know of, despite the preponderance of Lees!!

I hate when that shill Haney was right.

Happy for her:

“I didn't even look at the car because I didn't even know I made a hole-in-one. When I asked my caddie he said, “It's the nicest one. That's the one you want."

@kristengillman made her first ever ace Friday and was awarded a @BMWE82 as her prize.

[https://twitter.com/LPGA/status/1187775326207787009](https://twitter.com/LPGA/status/1187775326207787009 "https://twitter.com/LPGA/status/1187775326207787009")

JYK is a machine