Monday, October 11, 2010

LPGA Season-Long Races Update

Based on the latest figures from the Rolex Rankings and LPGA.com's stats pages, here's how the tour's season-long races look after the Navistar Classic.

1. Ji-Yai Shin $1.46M (1 win in 15 starts, 128 POY points, 70.20 scoring average, 3.86 birdies per round, 10.52 Rolex points [#3])
2. Na Yeon Choi $1.45M (1/18, 134, 69.89, 4.32, 9.50 [#6])
3. Ya Ni Tseng $1.43M (3/15, 2 majors, 176, 70.44, 3.84, 10.32 [#5])
4. Ai Miyazato $1.39M (5/17, 174, 70.41, 4.13, 10.84 [#1])
5. Cristie Kerr $1.34M (2/16, 1 major, 157, 69.93, 4.27, 10.76 [#2])
6. Suzann Pettersen $1.32M (0/15, 115, 70.00, 3.81, 10.33 [#4])
7. Song-Hee Kim $.99M (0/17, 93, 70.13, 4.05, 7.23 [#9])
8. Michelle Wie $.85M (1/16, 62, 71.20, 3.65, 8.38 [#7])
9. In-Kyung Kim $.84M (0/17, 83, 70.62, 3.77, 7.26 [#8])
10. Inbee Park $.74M (0/16, 55, 70.86, 3.52, 6.21 [#13])
11. Paula Creamer $.73M (1/10, 1 major, 64, 71.09, 3.53, 7.12 [#10])

It's pretty amazing that Na Yeon Choi could take both the money title and the Vare Trophy this season, despite being overshadowed thus far in the wins department. It's even more amazing that of all the players on this list, only Cristie Kerr and Paula Creamer will be playing in the CVS/pharmacy LPGA Challenge later this week. That event might well be Creamer's last until the LPGA Tour Championship. If she's not playing in Malaysia next week, as everyone else on the list is, I doubt she's heading to Korea or Japan, either.

4 comments:

Mike said...

During an interview this weekend, Creamer said she had considered just shutting it down for the year and not even playing Navistar. Apparently the thumb is still hurting. I wouldn't be surprised if she just took her major and called it a year. ;-)

The Constructivist said...

Me neither--she's expressed excitement on twitter about playing before the home crowd next week in CA, but that may be it for her.

Just realized Morgan Pressel isn't going to Malaysia, either! Wondering if she'll go to Japan, seeing as how she won their 1st major of the year over there....

sag said...

Paula says she's headed to Japan on Monday, so I'm guessing that means she'll play the Masters GC and then Korea as has been her pattern in the past.

The Constructivist said...

Wow, great news!