2024 KPMG Women's PGA Championship (Jun 20 - 23)

[Argonne69]

Race to the CME Globe: 650 Points

 

Format: 72 holes

 

Purse: $10,000,000

 

Location: Sahalee Country Club, Sammamish, WA

 

Par: 71

 

Yardage: 6,831 yds

 

History: This is the 70th year for the event. In 2023, Ruoning Yin drained a 15 foot birdie putt on the final hole to shoot a final round 67, and secure a one shot victory over Yuka Saso.

 

Coverage:

 

Jun 20: Peacock 4:00 pm - 10:00 pm (EDT)

Jun 20: The Golf Channel 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm (EDT)

 

Jun 21: Peacock 4:00 pm - 10:00 pm (EDT)

Jun 21: The Golf Channel 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm (EDT)

 

Jun 22: Peacock 1:00 pm - 8:00 pm (EDT)

Jun 22: NBC 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm (EDT)

Jun 22: The Golf Channel 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm (EDT)

 

Jun 23: Peacock 12:00 pm - 7:00 pm (EDT)

Jun 23: NBC 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm (EDT)

 

[Argonne69]

Back to Sahalee CC, where Brooke beat Lydia Ko in a playoff to win her first major 8 years ago. 

 

Note that coverage is on NBC on the weekend.

 

[kwcsports]

Looking forward to it. Pulling for Brooke this week.

[18majors]

 

Nice to have good TV coverage; 6 hours on weekday and 7 hours weekend.  Although, there haven't been any mentions of Featured Group coverage.

[Argonne69]

Lydia over Brooke in a playoff would be epic.

 

[Lobby]

Such a topsy turvy season. I have no idea who will do well here

 

well, except for nelly

 

🙂

[GolfMoose]

6 hours ago, Argonne69 said:

Note that coverage is on NBC on the weekend.

Thank you, another tourney that might require manual DVR intervention...mine didn't auto-schedule any of the days and tagging Thursday to record only brought along Fri/Sat, not Sunday.

 

So...long-ish course it seems?  Yuka seems an easy possibility....maybe the slightly resurgent Narin An.  How about a third of the '23 major winner wakes up, in Ruoning. Celine sure has been quiet since Singapore.

[3eagles]

7 hours ago, Argonne69 said:

Back to Sahalee CC, where Brooke beat Lydia Ko in a playoff to win her first major 8 years ago. 

 

Note that coverage is on NBC on the weekend.

 

Lydia, Brooke and Ariya paired together for rounds 1-2 this week. Ariya was 1 shot out of playoff in 2016. Kinda cool.

[imkirby34]

For no particular reason, A Lim Kim.

 

(Edit:  Just saw that she's playing with "Dammit" Janet.)

Edited June 18 by imkirby34

[18majors]

 

This is good:

KPMG, T-MOBILE AND THE PGA OF AMERICA COLLABORATE TO DRIVE TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION IN WOMEN’S GOLF

 

 

Edited June 18 by 18majors

[18majors]

 

Another good news:

 

[Trippels]

Nelly bounce back or has she fallen out of the zone?

[3eagles]

[3eagles]

56 minutes ago, 18majors said:

 

This is good:

KPMG, T-MOBILE AND THE PGA OF AMERICA COLLABORATE TO DRIVE TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION IN WOMEN’S GOLF

 

 

That shotlink they used in US Open, and whatever tech klpga uses is fantastic. Fun to use.

[tonyj5]

My field rating for this event is a spectacular 90%, up from 85% last year. This is the highest field rating for any event in the last decade. For a field rating to be this high we have to have no injuries to top top ranked players and we have to have key players from other tours teeing it up. 
My field breakdown is 93% from the LPGA Priority List and 87% from the Rolex World Rankings.
Every player in the Rolex Rankings top 40 will be teeing it up with the exception of non-LPGA player Ye Won Lee.

Other stuff:
Xiyu Lin missed the cut at the Meijer LPGA Classic last week, putting an end to her streak of nineteen consecutive cuts made.
Ayaka Furue registered her eighth top ten of the year, no other player on tour has more.
Lilia Vu's victory at the Meijer las week was the ninth this year for an American player. As we have just hit the halfway point of the season, that is a tremendous accomplishment. In fact, all other countries combined have just six wins.
Gabriella Ruffles increases her lead in the very tightly contested Louise Suggs Rookie of the Year race. She now has 397 points. Jin Hee Im is still a very close second with 376.

Rolex Rankings (LPGA players):
Lilia Vu remained number two in the Rolex Rankings with her win last week. She is nowhere near close to Nelly Korda at number one, but has increased her lead over Ruoning Yin for third place. For Nelly, she has been at the top for thirteen consecutive weeks and now has spent fifty weeks on top in her career.
Ally Ewing moves up from 24 to 19, as this coming week is the last chance she has to move into the top 15 to secure an Olympic spot. The Olympic cutoff is after this tournament.
Lexi Thompson catapults up from 60 to 39.
Grace Kim surges from 86 to 69.
Narin An climbs from 78 to 71.
Ryann O'Toole improves from 81 to 74.
Alexa Pano advances from 96 to 89.
Outside the top 100:
Hira Naveed jumps from 113 to 103
Vongtaveelap Natthakritta rises from 145 to 127.
Nataliya Guseva springs up from 173 to 160.
Paula Reto surges from 209 to 189.

Edited June 19 by tonyj5

[ChronicSlicer]

5 hours ago, GolfMoose said:

Celine sure has been quiet since Singapore.

She's making plenty of noise in the bogey column this year, T-12 with 124.

[18majors]

 

Nelly has reached 950,000 Instagram followers, but she isn't the only LPGA player who is doing well.  Charley Hull now has 538,000 followers; she's more than doubled her followers in the last 12 months, a rate that's much faster than Nelly's.

 

Muni He is another player that's been on the fast track; she now has 865,000 followers.

 

Until recently, Michelle Wie West and Lexi Thompson were the only LPGA players who'd done well on Instagram.  But, both of them have been stuck at around 600,000 followers.

 

Slowly but surely, LPGA players are reaching out to the general public and that can only be good for the future.

 

 

 

 

Edited June 19 by 18majors

[Rapidcat]

45 minutes ago, 18majors said:

 

Nelly has reached 950,000 Instagram followers, but she isn't the only LPGA player who is doing well.  Charley Hull now has 538,000 followers; she's more than doubled her followers in the last 12 months, a rate that's much faster than Nelly's.

 

Muni He is another player that's been on the fast track; she now has 865,000 followers.

 

Until recently, Michelle Wie West and Lexi Thompson were the only LPGA players who'd done well on Instagram.  But, both of them have been stuck at around 600,000 followers.

 

Slowly but surely, LPGA players are reaching out to the general public and that can only be good for the future.

 

 

 

 

 

I'm thinking that the number of Muni's followers has little to do with her golf career though.

[JungleJimbo]

48 minutes ago, 18majors said:

 

Nelly has reached 950,000 Instagram followers, but she isn't the only LPGA player who is doing well.  Charley Hull now has 538,000 followers; she's more than doubled her followers in the last 12 months, a rate that's much faster than Nelly's.

 

Muni He is another player that's been on the fast track; she now has 865,000 followers.

 

Until recently, Michelle Wie West and Lexi Thompson were the only LPGA players who'd done well on Instagram.  But, both of them have been stuck at around 600,000 followers.

 

Slowly but surely, LPGA players are reaching out to the general public and that can only be good for the future.

 

 

 

 

 

1 minute ago, Rapidcat said:

 

I'm thinking that the number of Muni's followers has little to do with her golf career though.

 

[Rapidcat]

1 minute ago, JungleJimbo said:

 

 

 

Interesting point, Paige's is based on her golf career, just not in a playing sense....plus other assets.

[DuenPhen]

6 hours ago, tonyj5 said:

My field rating for this event is a spectacular 90%, up from 85% last year. This is the highest field rating for any event in the last decade. For a field rating to be this high we have to have no injuries to top top ranked players and we have to have key players from other tours teeing it up. 
My field breakdown is 93% from the LPGA Priority List and 87% from the Rolex World Rankings.
Every player in the Rolex Rankings top 40 will be teeing it up with the exception of non-LPGA player Ye Won Lee.

Other stuff:
Xiyu Lin missed the cut at the Meijer LPGA Classic last week, putting an end to her streak of nineteen consecutive cuts made.
Ayaka Furue registered her eighth top ten of the year, no other player on tour has more.
Lilia Vu's victory at the Meijer las week was the ninth this year for an American player. As we have just hit the halfway point of the season, that is a tremendous accomplishment. In fact, all other countries combined have just six wins.
Gabriella Ruffles increases her lead in the very tightly contested Louise Suggs Rookie of the Year race. She now has 397 points. Jin Hee Im is still a very close second with 376.

Rolex Rankings (LPGA players):
Lilia Vu remained number two in the Rolex Rankings with her win last week. She is nowhere near close to Nelly Korda at number one, but has increased her lead over Ruoning Yin for third place. For Nelly, she has been at the top for thirteen consecutive weeks and now has spent fifty weeks on top in her career.
Ally Ewing moves up from 24 to 19, as this coming week is the last chance she has to move into the top 15 to secure an Olympic spot. The Olympic cutoff is after this tournament.
Lexi Thompson catapults up from 60 to 39.
Grace Kim surges from 86 to 69.
Narin An climbs from 78 to 71.
Ryann O'Toole improves from 81 to 74.
Alexa Pano advances from 96 to 89.
Outside the top 100:
Hira Naveed jumps from 113 to 103
Vongtaveelap Natthakritta rises from 145 to 127.
Nataliya Guseva springs up from 173 to 160.
Paula Reto surges from 209 to 189.

You have reverse Sim's first and last name for the last year or so. Any reason why you have opted for this arrangement? 

[JungleJimbo]

 

 

 

Edited June 20 by JungleJimbo

[JungleJimbo]

 

 

[JungleJimbo]

 

 

[Rapidcat]

1 hour ago, JungleJimbo said:

 

 

 

I can see King Charles now...."find our Charley's clubs or off with your heads!"

[JungleJimbo]

7 minutes ago, Rapidcat said:

 

I can see King Charles now...."find our Charley's clubs or off with your heads!"

 

 

[Rapidcat]

11 minutes ago, JungleJimbo said:

 

 

 

Yes, the King's tetchy all right...his plan to award Charley a Damehood (and so appeal to the upper class sporty youngsters of the realm and so gazump William in popularity) when she wins a major is upset if she hasn't her clubs to put her best foot forward.

 

 

Edited June 19 by Rapidcat

[JungleJimbo]

21 hours ago, Argonne69 said:

Lydia over Brooke in a playoff would be epic.

 

@Argonne69 = pandering to the "Lydia Ko's one win away from Hall-of-Fame" gang! 🏆👸🏻🤞

[Argonne69]

Nelly showing off her new bag.

 

 

[pmcuk]