Monday, November 14, 2011

CME Group Titleholders Preview

Congratulations go out this week to Catriona Matthew, for winning the Lorena Ochoa Invitational. It was her fourth career LPGA win.

The LPGA moves back to the United States this week with the CME Group Titleholders. This will be the final official LPGA tournament of the year. Here are the few details that are available as of this writing:

Course: Grand Cypress Country Club
Location: Orlando, Florida
Defending Champion: This is the inaugural year for this event
2011 Winning Score: None

Final Field: 65 players
Par: 72
Yardage: 6518 Yards
Purse: $1.5 Million

Television Schedule:
Nov 17: 1:30 - 4:00 PM ET - GC
Nov 18: 12:30 - 3:00 PM ET - GC
Nov 19: 1:30 - 4:00 PM ET - GC
Nov 20: 1:30 - 4:00 PM ET - GC

Qualifying this past weekend were Natalie Gulbis, Juli Inkster, and Beatriz Recari.

As of this writing, the only player to make the field and skip the tournament, is Jiyai Shin. I will post updates if any additional information is provided.

Highest-ranked players who failed to qualify:
Katherine Hull, Jee Young Lee, Kristy McPherson, and M.J. Hur.

Rolex Ranking Mover of the Week:
Catriona Matthew moves from # 34 to #22

Tony Jesselli's Player of the Year Update:

1- Yani Tseng - 348.84 points
2- Stacy Lewis - 201.86
3- Cristie Kerr - 169.94
4- Suzann Pettersen - 167.84
5- Na Yeon Choi - 149.56
6- I.K. Kim - 145.44
7- Angela Stanford - 144.62
8- Amy Yang - 136.50
9- Paula Creamer - 130.66
10-Brittany Lincicome - 129.82
11-Mika Miyazato - 125.06
12-Morgan Pressel - 116.64
13-Karrie Webb - 116.24
14-Ai Miyazato - 100.86
15-Jiyai Shin - 99.40
16-Maria Hjorth - 96.64
17-Anna Nordqvist - 94.78
18-Brittany Lang - 94.46
19-Catriona Matthew - 86.10
20-Michelle Wie - 85.08

Highest-ranked player this year without a win = Cristie Kerr #3
Lowest-ranked player with a win = Sandra Gal #24
My highest-ranked rookie = Hee Young Seo #30

UPDATE: 11/15/11 5:00PM
The following players are skipping the tournament:
Jiyai Shin, Momoko Ueda, Shanshan Feng,So Yeon Ryu, Grace Park, Inbee Park, and Julie Inkster.

Here is the updated Final Field:





1 comment:

Jim C said...

Why no alternates? If each title sponsor is supposed to get three players, there should be alternates--or perhaps sponsor's exemptions given to the sponsors whose players withdrew.