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2024 Lotte Championship prize money payouts for every LPGA player in Hawaii

Kim has won $1,099,359 this season and $3,138,132 in her LPGA career.

A Lim Kim crossed the $1 million mark in earnings this season after her victory at the Lotte Championship in Hawaii. The 29-year-old South Korean earned $450,000 for her two-stroke triumph over Russian rookie Nataliya Guseva.

Kim has won $1,099,359 this season and $3,138,132 in her LPGA career. The 2020 U.S. Women’s Open champion waited 1,426 days between titles. She becomes the third South Korean player to win on tour this season, joining Amy Yang (KPMG Women’s PGA Championship) and Haeran Ryu (FM Championship).

Kim has three titles on the KLPGA.

Here’s a look at the prize money payouts for each player at the 2024 Lotte Championship from a purse of $3 million.

2024 Lotte Championship prize money payouts

Position Player Score Earnings
1 A Lim Kim -18 $450,000
2 Nataliya Guseva -16 $282,977
3 Auston Kim -15 $205,279
4 Nasa Hataoka -14 $158,799
T5 Yuri Yoshida -13 $116,916
T5 Ryann O’Toole -13 $116,916
7 Jin Young Ko -12 $87,535
8 Lindy Duncan -11 $76,690
T9 Hyo Joo Kim -10 $65,845
T9 Angel Yin -10 $65,845
T11 Gurleen Kaur -9 $52,713
T11 Ruixin Liu -9 $52,713
T11 Bianca Pagdanganan -9 $52,713
T11 Grace Kim -9 $52,713
T15 Somi Lee -8 $42,553
T15 Azahara Munoz -8 $42,553
T15 Jodi Ewart Shadoff -8 $42,553
T18 Brooke M. Henderson -7 $37,648
T18 Sofia Garcia -7 $37,648
T20 Arpichaya Yubol -6 $32,561
T20 Gaby Lopez -6 $32,561
T20 Pauline Roussin-Bouchard -6 $32,561
T20 Ayaka Furue -6 $32,561
T20 Perrine Delacour -6 $32,561
T20 Jeongeun Lee5 -6 $32,561
T26 Erika Hara -5 $26,881
T26 Angela Stanford -5 $26,881
T26 So Young Lee -5 $26,881
T26 Pavarisa Yoktuan -5 $26,881
T30 Paula Reto -4 $22,464
T30 Liqi Zeng -4 $22,464
T30 Emily Kristine Pedersen -4 $22,464
T30 Amanda Doherty -4 $22,464
T30 Pernilla Lindberg -4 $22,464
T35 Mao Saigo -3 $17,293
T35 Aline Krauter -3 $17,293
T35 Yan Liu -3 $17,293
T35 Gina Kim -3 $17,293
T35 Robyn Choi -3 $17,293
T35 Kristen Gillman -3 $17,293
T35 Youmin Hwang -3 $17,293
T35 Ashleigh Buhai -3 $17,293
T43 Annie Park -2 $12,491
T43 Caroline Masson -2 $12,491
T43 Muni He -2 $12,491
T43 Sophia Schubert -2 $12,491
T43 Yuna Nishimura -2 $12,491
T43 Stephanie Kyriacou -2 $12,491
T43 Jasmine Suwannapura -2 $12,491
T43 Yue Ren -2 $12,491
T51 Yu-Sang Hou -1 $10,226
T51 Hye-Jin Choi -1 $10,226
T51 Sophia Popov -1 $10,226
T54 Yu Jin Sung E $8,831
T54 Elizabeth Szokol E $8,831
T54 Xiaowen Yin E $8,831
T54 Olivia Cowan E $8,831
T54 Frida Kinhult E $8,831
T54 Savannah Grewal E $8,831
T60 Kiira Riihijarvi 1 $7,670
T60 Polly Mack 1 $7,670
62 Georgia Hall 2 $7,435
63 Malia Nam 4 $7,282
T64 Morgane Metraux 6 $7,049
T64 Clariss Guce 6 $7,049

 

Major champion A Lim Kim edges Russian rookie to claim second LPGA title at Lotte Championship

The 29-year-old Kim posted three top-10 finishes this season in 25 starts before breaking through on Oahu.

South Korea’s A Lim Kim, a major champion, clinched her first LPGA title as a tour member at the Lotte Championship. The 2020 U.S. Women’s Open winner narrowly edged Russia’s Nataliya Guseva by two strokes in her 100th start since claiming a major title. The victory vaults Kim into field for the CME Group Tour Championship.

“Everything is getting better,” said a smiling Kim, who felt comfortable in Hawaii. The player who goes by the nickname “Queen” was a good sport with the traditional hula dance, too.

The 29-year-old Kim posted three top-10 finishes this season in 25 starts before breaking through on Oahu. She closed with a 4-under 68 for an 18-under total and managed to hang on despite Guseva’s tenacious play. The first Russian to earn an LPGA card shot 34 on the back nine to card a closing 69.

“I really did my best out there,” said Guseva, “I never gave up.”

After playing five weeks in a row, Guseva will take of next week before heading to Naples, Florida, for the final event of the season.

Nataliya Guseva plays her shot from the third tee during the final round of the LOTTE Championship presented by Hoakalei 2024 at Hoakalei Country Club on November 09, 2024 in Ewa Beach, Hawaii. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

Rookie Auston Kim finished a career-best third place to greatly improve her chances of qualifying for the CME Group Tour Championship. The top 60 players in the CME points race qualify for the season-ending event, which features a winner’s check of $4 million. Kim moved up to 64th.

“It’s been a long year, a lot of good lessons and tough moments,” said Kim, “but really proud of myself for bouncing back after the tough weeks and being able to play some really solid golf.”

For Angela Stanford, it was a walk to remember as the 46-year-old played her last round in her final season on the LPGA. The seven-time LPGA winner, who has played full time on tour for 24 years, finished with her head held high.

“I said going into today I wanted to be me,” said Stanford, who finished tied for 26th. “I wanted to play my game. I hit every green on the back nine. Throughout my career my iron play was what I relied on, so that kind of made me get teary-eyed, because it’s awesome to play the last nine holes and hit every green. Just kind of felt like me, so it was good.”

Meet the top 10 players in contention at the Chevron Championship and what they’re saying about a potential jump in a new pond

Will the winner jump or not?

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Angel Yin remembers vividly a practice round she had with Cristie Kerr several years ago at an LPGA Drive On event in Georgia.

“She was walking after she hit a tee shot off a practice round, and she was like, ‘I’m four days away from people knowing I’m back,'” said Yin.

“That’s the confidence. Every day I tell myself that: ‘Just channel your Cristie Kerr.'”

Yin hasn’t yet won on the LPGA and co-leads the 2023 Chevron Championship with Allisen Corpuz, another American player looking for her first LPGA victory at the year’s first major. The third-round leaderboard at the Club at Carlton Woods is littered with players looking for a break-through week – whether that’s a first-time LPGA victory or a maiden major win.

Only a trio in a share of sixth know what it’s like to win a major – Nelly Korda, Hyo Joo Kim and A Lim Kim, who won her first major down the road in Houston at the 2020 U.S. Women’s Open at Champion Golf Club.

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Here’s a breakdown of the top 10 players at the Chevron, and what some are saying about the champion’s leap:

Haley Moore is one of 40 first-time competitors at Olympic for U.S. Women’s Open

SAN FRANCISCO – Only five players have won the U.S. Women’s Open in their first attempt. Patty Berg (1946) was the first to do it and 2021 champion A Lim Kim was the last. In between, there was Kathy Cornelius (1956), Birdie Kim (2005) and In Gee …

SAN FRANCISCO — Only five players have won the U.S. Women’s Open in their first attempt. Patty Berg (1946) was the first to do it and 2021 champion A Lim Kim was the last. In between, there was Kathy Cornelius (1956), Birdie Kim (2005) and In Gee Chun (2015).

When A Lim Kim won last December in frigid Houston, she wore a mask inside the ropes. On Monday in sunny San Francisco, it was lovely to see her smile as she talked about last year’s break-through victory.

“Frankly, let me be honest with you,” Kim said through an interpreter, “I think I was lucky.”

There are 40 players in this week’s field who are playing in their first U.S. Women’s Open. Inbee Park, a two-time USWO winner, made her debut as an amateur in 2004 and missed the cut. The LPGA Hall of Famer was reminded of that first time this week when she played a practice round at The Olympic Club with a young Japanese player.

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“She just looked nothing to be scared of on this golf course and just bombing the balls,” said Park. “I kind of envy that, and I don’t think I’ll be able to ever do that again.”

Back then, Park continued, she’d go into shock after a bogey. The world came to an end after a double. Needless to say, much has changed.

LPGA rookie Haley Moore is among the dozens of first-timers this week. Moore first tried to qualify for the U.S. Women’s Open in 2014 and basically every year since.

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This year Moore advanced through a 36-hole qualifier at Brentwood Country Club, birdieing three of her last five holes to finish at even-par 144.

“Toughest part is I think,” said Moore, “is going to be your patience and your mental game. … It’s not always perfect out here.”

First-time U.S. Women’s Open competitors

Amari Avery, Addie Baggarly, Jensen Castle, Matilda Castren, Claire Choi, Abbey Daniel, Leigha Devine, Nicole Garcia, Ingrid Gutierrez, Haylee Hartford, Jo Hua Hung, Tsubasa Kajitani, Gurleen Kaur, Hikari Kawamitsu, Chihiro Kogure, Chloe Kovelesky, Aline Krauter, Jaclyn LaHa, Alyssa Lamoureux, Karolin Lampert, Da Yeon Lee, Amanda Linnér, Emily Mahar, Isabella McCauley, Kim Metraux, Momoka Miyake, Haley Moore, Minori Nagano, Natsumi Nakanishi, Noemie Pare, Bohyun Park, Maria Parra, Ana Pelaez Trivino, Aneka Seumanutafa, Alexandra Swayne, Elizabeth Szokol, Tsai-Ching Tseng, Karoline Tuttle, Monica Vaughn, Ruoning Yin.

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LPGA commissioner Mike Whan pushing to retroactively award CME points to non-members who win

Starting in 2021, CME points will be used to determine a player’s LPGA status for the next season rather than the money list.

NAPLES, Fla. – CME points will mean a lot more starting in 2020. LPGA commissioner Mike Whan announced that starting in 2021, CME points will be used to determine a player’s status for the next season rather than the money list.

“There’s a couple of benefits to that,” said Whan. “I know the PGA Tour went to that a few years ago, and we were tracking both their change and our sort of pseudo-change over the last few years. One of the benefits is while money can be pretty staggeringly different, we didn’t want a second-place finish at the U.S. Women’s Open to be more important than finishing in the top-five all year long.”

Whan told Golf Channel that he’s going to make a push in the offseason to allow non-members who win and then take up membership to have their CME points retroactively rewarded.

Going forward, that would given players like Sophia Popov and A Lim Kim, two players who were non-members when they won majors this season, a spot in this week’s CME Group Tour Championship field.

“I do think that’s something I’d like to see changed for the offseason,” said Whan.

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Brittany Lincicome isn’t so sure about that change, calling it a “sticky situation.”

“If you’re a non-member, I don’t feel like you should get the same amount of perks,” she said.

Brittany Altomare said she teeters back and forth on retroactive points for non-members, but she definitely likes the change from the money list to CME points.

“I think it rewards more consistent play,” she said, “and I think the better you do out here, the points reflect that, where I don’t think the money list does.”

Azahara Munoz likes the idea of both changes, saying that one high finish at the right time (like the U.S. Women’s Open) can make a player’s entire year. The points approach, she said, is more fair.

And given how few non-members win in any given season, she has no problem with awarding retroactive points.

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How much money each player won at the U.S. Women’s Open

Here is a look at what the top players took home from the 2020 U.S. Women’s Open.

Here is a look at what the top players took home from the 2020 U.S. Women’s Open.