Click here for the complete field at the 2016 CME Group Tour Championship.
Best of the Best
One of the strongest fields of the season arrives in Naples for the season ending CME Group Tour Championship. 21 of the top-25 players in the Rolex Rankings will compete this week for not only the final title of the year but also the coveted season long Race to the CME Globe. Points reset for this week’s event with the top-3 controlling their own destiny in being able to win both the Tour Championship and season long race with a win on Sunday. Players within the top-9 after the reset all have a mathematical chance of winning the Race to the CME Globe. Click here for current standings.
World No.1 and two-time Race to the CME Globe champion Lydia Ko headlines the field along with world No.2 Ariya Jutanugarn and No.3 In Gee Chun.
Make It One More
All of the 2016 winners on the LPGA Tour are in the field this week at Tiburon Golf Club, including four-time winner Lydia Ko, three-time winner Ha Na Jang, two-time winners Haru Nomura, Sei Young Kim, Minjee Lee, Brooke Henderson, Shanshan Feng and Carlota Ciganda. Ariya Jutanugarn leads the pack with five wins in 2016 and with a victory on Sunday would become the first since Inbee Park in 2013 to win six times in a single season.
Got What It Takes
2014 and 2015 champions of the CME Group Tour Championship return to the field this year. In its inaugural year, Lydia Ko won the event as well as the Race to the CME Globe. She followed that dominating performance with a seventh place showing last year and once again took home the Race to the CME Globe for the second consecutive year. Defending champion Cristie Kerr returns this week to the site of her 18th career win on the LPGA Tour. The veteran carded a final round 68, which included a birdie and an eagle in her final four holes to win by one-stroke for her second win of 2015. Although Kerr has yet to hoist a trophy in 2016, she has four top-10 finishes.
Settling For Second
Five birdies in her last six holes weren’t enough for Gerina Piller to catch Cristie Kerr in 2015. But her weekend rounds of 67 did earn her a second place finish, her second runner-up in the final event of the season. Piller continued to build off that strong finish to the year when she returned to the Tour for 2016, posting nine top-10s including three in major championships. A win on Sunday would be a fitting end to what has been a career year for the Olympian and world No.18.
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