2024 Kroger Queen City Championship prize money payouts for each LPGA player

The first-place prize at TPC River’s Bend was $300,000.

Lydia Ko’s “surreal” stretch continued at the Kroger Queen City Championship, where the 27-year-old locked up her third official victory of the season, not including the Olympic gold medal.

Ko earned $300,000 for her efforts, giving her $2,569,317 this season and $19,512,009 in her career.

LPGA stats guru Justin Ray noted that Ko’s final-round bogey-free 63 is her 134th bogey-free round since 2014. That’s 50 more than anyone else during that span. Ko recorded only one bogey the entire week at TPC River’s Bend.

She now owns 22 LPGA career titles, the most among active players.

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Here’s the prize money breakdown for LPGA players from the $2 million purse at the 2024 Kroger Queen City Championship:

Pos. Player Score Earnings
1 Lydia Ko -23 $300,000
2 Jeeno Thitikul -18 $183,381
3 Haeran Ryu -17 $133,030
4 Yuka Saso -16 $102,909
T5 Nelly Korda -14 $75,301
T5 Hyo Joon Jang -14 $75,301
T7 Gaby Lopez -13 $53,212
T7 Albane Valenzuela -13 $53,212
T9 Jin Hee Im -12 $38,212
T9 Yealimi Noh -12 $38,212
T9 Nanna Koerstz Madsen -12 $38,212
T9 A Lim Kim -12 $38,212
T9 Kristen Gillman -12 $38,212
T14 Pajaree Anannarukarn -11 $27,710
T14 Angel Yin -11 $27,710
T14 Polly Mack -11 $27,710
T14 Ashleigh Buhai -11 $27,710
T14 Yan Liu -11 $27,710
T19 Grace Kim -10 $21,122
T19 Maria Fassi -10 $21,122
T19 Lexi Thompson -10 $21,122
T19 Charley Hull -10 $21,122
T19 Sei Young Kim -10 $21,122
T19 Anna Nordqvist -10 $21,122
T19 Lindy Duncan -10 $21,122
T19 Jasmine Suwannapura -10 $21,122
T27 Minjee Lee -9 $16,425
T27 Esther Henseleit -9 $16,425
T27 Ryann O’Toole -9 $16,425
T27 Savannah Grewal -9 $16,425
T27 Stephanie Kyriacou -9 $16,425
T32 Lucy Li -8 $12,894
T32 Cheyenne Knight -8 $12,894
T32 Pernilla Lindberg -8 $12,894
T32 Perrine Delacour -8 $12,894
T32 Linn Grant -8 $12,894
T32 Jing Yan -8 $12,894
T32 Bianca Pagdanganan -8 $12,894
T39 Haeji Kang -7 $9,839
T39 Azahara Munoz -7 $9,839
T39 Mao Saigo -7 $9,839
T39 Minji Kang -7 $9,839
T39 Dewi Weber -7 $9,839
T39 Frida Kinhult -7 $9,839
T45 Linnea Strom -6 $8,082
T45 Sophia Schubert -6 $8,082
T45 Gabriela Ruffels -6 $8,082
T45 Leona Maguire -6 $8,082
T49 Celine Borge -5 $6,641
T49 Georgia Hall -5 $6,641
T49 Alexa Pano -5 $6,641
T49 Alena Sharp -5 $6,641
T49 Madelene Sagstrom -5 $6,641
T49 Weiwei Zhang -5 $6,641
T49 So Mi Lee -5 $6,641
T56 Marina Alex -4 $5,422
T56 Wei-Ling Hsu -4 $5,422
T56 Muni He -4 $5,422
T56 Peiyun Chien -4 $5,422
T56 Matilda Castren -4 $5,422
T61 Nasa Hataoka -3 $4,568
T61 Minami Katsu -3 $4,568
T61 Hinako Shibuno -3 $4,568
T61 Robyn Choi -3 $4,568
T61 Jaravee Boonchant -3 $4,568
T61 Min Lee -3 $4,568
T61 Ruixin Liu -3 $4,568
T61 Laetitia Beck -3 $4,568
T69 Morgane Metraux -2 $4,003
T69 Gina Kim -2 $4,003
T69 Gurleen Kaur -2 $4,003
T69 Xiaowen Yin -2 $4,003
T73 Kaitlin Milligan E $3,816
T73 Ssu-Chia Cheng E $3,816
T73 Jodi Ewart Shadoff E $3,816
76 Jeongeun Lee5 2 $3,721

 

Lydia Ko wins again at Kroger Queen City Championship, puts an end to retirement talk – for now

Incredibly, Ko had only one bogey the entire week at TPC River’s Bend.

Lydia Ko picked up right where she left off — winning. On the heels of an Olympic gold medal and the AIG Women’s British Open victory at St. Andrews, Ko added another first-place prize at the 2024 Kroger Queen City Championship, topping the field by five strokes after a three-week break. Incredibly, she had only one bogey the entire week at TPC River’s Bend.

In her post-round interview with Golf Channel’s Amy Rogers, Ko called this stretch of golf “surreal” and put any talk of retirement on a back burner with a newish goal.

“I think it’s always been the goal of mine to do the career grand slam,” said Ko, who currently owns three different majors. “I thought that would be so out there.

“I feel like I’ve already been part of this fairytale, so why not?”

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The newest member of the LPGA Hall of Fame now owns 22 LPGA career titles. She has three LPGA official wins this season, plus the gold medal. Ko closed with a 9-under 63 to run away from former No. 1 Jeeno Thitikul. Ko finished at 23 under for the tournament.

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This marks the first time since 2016 – when she claimed the JTBC Classic and Chevron Championship titles – the 27-year-old Kiwi has won in back-to-back starts on the LPGA.

She joins Nelly Korda as the only other player with at least three wins this season. Korda, who finished in a share of fifth in Cincinnati, won six times in the first half of the season and leads the Rolex Player of the Year list by 100 points. (Ko did not receive any POY points for her gold-medal performance in Paris, though she did get that valuable LPGA Hall of Fame point.)

Ko starts the fall season the same way she ended the summer, on a hot streak, extending her top-10 run to her last five consecutive starts, including the Olympics.

World No. 1 Korda will have three weeks at home before heading to South Korea for the LPGA’s BMW Ladies Championship. The LPGA heads to the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship, Sept. 27-29, before a four-event swing through China, Korea, Malaysia and Japan.

“I don’t think I had my best stuff, but played some solid golf here and there,” said Korda, who closed with a 68. “Definitely didn’t capitalize on the par-5s. I had a lot of irons in my hands and came out with pars. A little disappointing there.

“Overall, happy with the way I played coming off last week and my energy levels.”

South Korea’s Haeran Ryu birdied five consecutive holes on the back nine en route to a closing 67. She finished solo third.

Ko now immediately heads to South Korea to compete in the KLPGA’s Hana Financial Group Championship. As for retirement, Ko said she’s always looked up to the way Lorena Ochoa ended her career while still playing well. She’d rather leave the tour wondering if she could’ve won a few more rather than reach a point where she feels like she should’ve left the game long ago.

“I don’t know when that moment is right now,”  she said. “I enjoyed these past three weeks and it was great being home and not to live out of my suitcase. While I’m competitively playing, it’s good to have goals. The career grand slam seems too far out there, but what has happened the past couple months has been that extent of craziness, I guess.

“So I just wanted to set a goal that was something that I can work towards and whether that’s happens or not isn’t as important. It’s just more the drive for me to keep wanting to put myself in contention and hopefully be the one holding the trophy at the end of the week more and more after this week as well.”

While Jeeno Thitikul leads the 2024 Kroger Queen City Championship, Lydia Ko lurks just two back

Sunday is going to be fun.

Jeeno Thitikul might have a two-shot lead after 54 holes of the LPGA’s 2024 Kroger Queen City Championship, but her closest chaser is the newest member of the league’s Hall of Fame.

Lydia Ko, who won the AIG Women’s British Open at St. Andrews in her last start, shot a third-round 3-under 69 around TPC River’s Bend in Maineville, Ohio, on Saturday and is alone in second, two back of Thitikul’s lead.

The Kiwi started her day with a bogey but made the turn with an even-par 36 thanks to a birdie on No. 8. After making the turn, Ko added birdies on Nos. 10, 14 and 18 to guarantee her spot in Sunday’s final group.

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Thitikul was one better than Ko on Day 3, posting a 4-under 68 that consisted of three birdies on each side plus back-to-back bogeys on Nos. 16 and 17. Since missing the cut at the Evian Championship, Thitikul has tied for 17th at the Women’s Open and finished T-4 at the FM Championship in Boston.

Yan Liu is alone in third at 13 under, three back, while Albane Valenzuela and Haeran Ryu are tied for fourth at 12 under, four back.

Final-round coverage will be on Golf Channel from 1-4 p.m. ET.

America’s best player at Solheim Cup is lone golfer of 11 in LPGA field this week to miss the cut

What Solheim Cup fatigue?

Just four days removed from a dramatic international competition there were 11 players from the Solheim Cup – eight Europeans, three Americans – teeing it up in the 2024 Kroger Queen City Championship near Cincinnati.

After 36 holes, 10 of those 11 made the cut. What Solheim Cup fatigue?

The lone player to not make the weekend was the most successful one at the Solheim Cup. Rose Zhang, just the eighth different player and only the third different American in Solheim Cup history to finish 4-0-0 or better, shot 73-71 to finish even par and miss the cut by a shot. Her Friday 71 featured two eagles over the span of three holes – the par-6 sixth and the par-5 eighth – but it was a double bogey on the par-4 15th that was ultimately the deciding factor.

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The other two Americans from last week’s biennial competition playing this week at TPC River’s Bend is Nelly Korda, who is tied for 15th (67-70) and Lexi Thompson, tied for 52nd (71-71). The top player from Europe so far this week is Anna Nordqvist, who shot 71-65 and is tied for eighth.

Pos. Golfer Solheim Cup team Score
T-8 Anna Nordqvist Europe 8 under
T-8 Albane Valenzuela Europe 8 under
T-15 Nelly Korda U.S. 7 under
T-23 Leona Maguire Europe 6 under
T-23 Madelene Sagstrom Europe 6 under
T-33 Charley Hull Europe 4 under
T-47 Linn Grant Europe 3 under
T-52 Georgia Hall Europe 2 under
T-52 Esther Henseleit Europe 2 under
T-52 Lexi Thompson U.S. 2 under
T-77 Rose Zhang* U.S. even

The cut was 1 under. Along with Zhang, these notables are getting the weekend off: Aditi Ashok, Danielle Kang, Mina Harigae, Emma Talley, Amy Yang, Sophia Popov and 16-year-old Gianna Clemente, an Ohio-area junior golfer who was in the field on a sponsor exemption.

Lydia Ko continues her 2024 surge at Kroger Queen City Championship

Ko has turned on the jets and she’s not slowing down.

Lydia Ko has turned on the jets. And she’s not slowing down.

Ko shot a second-round 66 to vault into the clubhouse lead at the 2024 Kroger Queen City Championship outside Cincinnati on Friday. Coupled with her Thursday 67 and Ko was at 11 under heading into the weekend. Late in the day, Jeeno Thitikul shot her second straight 66 to reach 12 under, so she’ll take a one-shot lead into the weekend over Ko.

Ko recent run comes after four straight top-10 finishes, including a win at the 2024 AIG Women’s Open at St. Andrews. Oh yeah, she also won the gold medal at the Paris Olympics.

“I obviously came off an amazing three-week stretch in Europe,” Ko said. “I wanted to make sure that I kind of came back to the ground and work on the basics and the things I’ve been working on the past few months. Winning at the British and playing well at the Scottish [T-9] and winning the gold in Paris, it wasn’t just the work I put in the week before. Every week it’s been incremental improvement. You hope to pull it off one week, and it happened to be two of the biggest weeks in my schedule this year.”

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Her win at the Olympics secured the final points she needed for entry into the LPGA Hall of Fame. Her victory 15 days later in the Women’s Open, her third career major, was icing on the cake. Now she’s seeking her 22nd LPGA win and third this season.

“The golf course is getting firmer just because it is pretty warm out here. Being smart with the club selection off the tee and just knowing which ones I should be aggressive and which ones I should be a little bit more conservative,” she said. “I feel like I set myself a good plan going into the week so that’s what I’m going to stick to. I know there is still a lot of golf to be played so just focus on me and I think that’s the biggest thing that I’ve been doing well these past month or so. So just stick to that.”

Photos: 2024 Kroger Queen City Championship at TPC River’s Bend

It’s the first of just nine LPGA tournaments left in 2024.

It was the first post-Solheim Cup event on the LPGA schedule and the first of just nine tournaments left in 2024.

The Kroger Queen City Championship was staged for the third time but for the first time at TPC River’s Bend, the third time the LPGA has played a tournament at a TPC course.

Lydia Ko shot a final-round 63 to win by five shots, her third win of the LPGA season and 22nd in her career.

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Solheim Cup champs Nelly Korda, Lexi Thompson, Rose Zhang headline field at Kroger Queen City Championship as LPGA returns

Fresh off the 2024 Solheim Cup, the LPGA is right back at it this week.

Fresh off the 2024 Solheim Cup, the LPGA is right back at it this week.

There will be 11 players competing in the Kroger Queen City Championship presented by P&G in Maineville, Ohio, outside Cincinnati.

Three of those – Nelly Korda, Lexi Thompson and Rose Zhang – are from the winning American side, set to play just five days after hoisting the trophy.

“Gosh, it was such an unbelievable and crazy week,” Korda said. “It was just overall so much fun with our caddies, with the assistants, Stacy, the helpers, with the girls, too. That was my fourth Solheim Cup, and obviously it was sweeter to get the victory at the end of the week, but also such an amazing week with the girls.”

But now it’s back to LPGA competition where she’ll be battling her American teammates.

“Just hate all the girls again,” she quipped, which brought laughs to media center. “Coming out here and competing, doing what I love just gives me a little bit more energy boost.”

The eight Europeans in the field are Linn Grant, Georgia Hall, Esther Henseleit, Charley Hull, Leona Maguire, Anna Nordqvist, Madelene Sagstrom and Albane Valenzuela.

This is the third playing of the event but the first time that the Arnold Palmer-designed TPC River’s Bend is the host course following two years at Kenwood Country Club. It’s just the third time the LPGA has played a tournament at a TPC venue. Just last month, the inaugural FM Championship was at TPC Boston. The 2023 Hanwha Lifeplus International Crown was at TPC Harding Park.

Minjee Lee is the defending champion this week. She took down Charley Hull on the second playoff hole a year ago.

There are four sponsor exemptions in the event: Amari Avery, Gianna Clemente, Gabrielle Woods (who won the Div. II individual NCAA championship last season playing for Findlay) and Yana Wilson, a former No. 1-ranked player in the Rolex AJGA Rankings.

The Kroger is the first of the remaining nine events on the LPGA’s 2024 schedule.

2023 Kroger Queen City Championship prize money payouts for each LPGA player

Minjee Lee is the 11th golfer to surpass the $13 million mark on the LPGA.

There were 80 golfers who made the cut and got paid at the 2023 Kroger Queen City Championship.

The LPGA returned to Kenwood Country Club in Cincinnati for a second straight year and it was Minjee Lee who outlasted Charley Hull in a two-hole playoff to earn the tournament’s top prize of $300,000.

Lee, who is the 11th LPGA golfer to surpass the $13 million mark in career on-course earnings, now has nine wins on the tour and her first of 2023.

Hull cleared $180,000 for being runner-up. Ruoning Yin, who will be the new No. 1 in the Rolex Rankings, earned more $130,000 for her fourth third-place finish in her last five tournaments.

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2023 Kroger Queen City Championship prize money

1* Minjee Lee -16 $300,000
1 Charley Hull -16 $181,723
3 Ruoning Yin -14 $131,827
4 Ally Ewing -12 $101,979
T5 Mel Reid -11 $56,545
T5 Mi Hyang Lee -11 $56,545
T5 Ariya Jutanugarn -11 $56,545
T5 Yuka Saso -11 $56,545
T5 Morgane Metraux -11 $56,545
T5 Peiyun Chien -11 $56,545
T11 Hye-Jin Choi -10 $34,921
T11 Cydney Clanton -10 $34,921
T11 Andrea Lee -10 $34,921
T14 Frida Kinhult -9 $29,748
T14 Madelene Sagstrom -9 $29,748
T16 Pavarisa Yoktuan -8 $25,934
T16 Alexa Pano -8 $25,934
T16 Nasa Hataoka -8 $25,934
T19 Xiyu Lin -7 $22,485
T19 Esther Henseleit -7 $22,485
T19 Lexi Thompson -7 $22,485
T19 Gaby Lopez -7 $22,485
T23 Brooke M. Henderson -6 $17,983
T23 Jenny Shin -6 $17,983
T23 Hae Ran Ryu -6 $17,983
T23 Dani Holmqvist -6 $17,983
T23 Mariah Stackhouse -6 $17,983
T23 Yealimi Noh -6 $17,983
T23 Perrine Delacour -6 $17,983
T23 Paula Reto -6 $17,983
T31 Emily Kristine Pedersen -5 $13,849
T31 Moriya Jutanugarn -5 $13,849
T31 Elizabeth Szokol -5 $13,849
T31 Jennifer Kupcho -5 $13,849
T31 Rose Zhang -5 $13,849
T36 Azahara Munoz -4 $11,262
T36 Narin An -4 $11,262
T36 Nanna Koerstz Madsen -4 $11,262
T36 Gabriela Ruffels -4 $11,262
T36 Hinako Shibuno -4 $11,262
T41 Lauren Coughlin -3 $8,681
T41 Stephanie Kyriacou -3 $8,681
T41 Samantha Wagner -3 $8,681
T41 Dana Fall -3 $8,681
T41 Yuna Nishimura -3 $8,681
T41 Pernilla Lindberg -3 $8,681
T41 Linnea Strom -3 $8,681
T41 Lydia Ko -3 $8,681
T49 Maria Fassi -2 $6,682
T49 Jasmine Suwannapura -2 $6,682
T49 Stephanie Meadow -2 $6,682
T49 Ruixin Liu -2 $6,682
T49 Muni He -2 $6,682
T49 Yan Liu -2 $6,682
T55 Weiwei Zhang -1 $5,571
T55 Sarah Kemp -1 $5,571
T55 Linnea Johansson -1 $5,571
T55 Arpichaya Yubol -1 $5,571
T55 Dewi Weber -1 $5,571
60 Sei Young Kim E $4,975
T61 Dottie Ardina 1 $4,676
T61 Jaravee Boonchant 1 $4,676
T61 Jeongeun Lee5 1 $4,676
T61 A Lim Kim 1 $4,676
T61 Gina Kim 1 $4,676
T66 Lauren Hartlage 2 $4,228
T66 Brittany Altomare 2 $4,228
T66 Christina Kim 2 $4,228
T66 Angel Yin 2 $4,228
T70 Sydnee Michaels 3 $3,930
T70 Olivia Cowan 3 $3,930
T70 Jennifer Song 3 $3,930
T73 Yu Liu 4 $3,805
T73 Mariajo Uribe 4 $3,805
T75 Ines Laklalech 5 $3,664
T75 Gabriella Then 5 $3,664
T75 Bailey Tardy 5 $3,664
T75 Pornanong Phatlum 5 $3,664
79 Xiaowen Yin 6 $3,548
80 Lindy Duncan 8 $3,503

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Minjee Lee wins Kroger Queen City Championship; Ruoning Yin rises to No. 1

Lee has now won six of the last eight tournaments in which she held the 54-hole lead.

It was a weekend of rallies at the 2023 LPGA Kroger Queen City Championship, which also produced a new world No. 1.

Minjee Lee was six shots back of the lead after 36 holes but through 10 holes Sunday during the final round, she held a five-shot lead. Ballgame, right?

As ESPN college football analyst Lee Corso likes to say: Not so fast, my friends, because that’s just when Charley Hull turned on the jets and put on a rally of her own at Kenwood Country Club in Cincinnati.

Hull birdied the par-3 11th and then overcame a bogey on the next hole to make three straight birdies on Nos. 14, 15 and 16 to forge a tie atop the leaderboard at 16 under.

Lee and Hull were still tied on the 18th tee box and they each proceeded to hit driver into the same fairway bunker, their balls ending up with 10 feet of each.

From there, Hull blasted out and got her ball to the front fringe, giving herself a 54-foot birdie putt to win. She missed just left and then watched as Lee, whose third shot was a chip to about eight feet, need to make her putt for par, which she did for a final-round 71. Hull then made her one-footer for a par of her own for a final-round 69 and the two headed back to the 18th tee box for a playoff, the ninth of the LPGA season.

Lee’s second shot on the first playoff hole found the green, but Hull’s took a huge bounce and came to rest near the grandstands behind the green. Her putt from off the green rolled and rolled and rolled and nearly went in, coming to a rest one rotation short of the cup.

Lee then pulled her 20-footer for birdie left and it was back to the 18th tee box for a second playoff hole. That’s where Lee landed her second shot short of the green but it bounded on and rolled to about three feet.

“You have to land it like 25 yards short of the green because I was also coming out of the rough,” she said after he round. “So I just hit pitching wedge and hit it three quarter and it was really… you can’t really predict how far it’s going to run so it was just a guesstimate.”

She then poured in the birdie putt to get the win.

Lee secured her first victory of the season and the ninth in her LPGA career. She now has seven top-20 finishes in her last nine outings. More impressively, Lee has now won six of the last eight tournaments in which she led after three rounds.

“I guess I just have a lot of grit,” she said when asked about her ability to close. “Coming down the stretch I never give up, and I like to think that I’m always putting pressure on my opponents and not giving it up too easily. So I think I just have great fight in me and really great resilience.”

The LPGA breaks for the Solheim Cup in two weeks. There are two events back-to-back after that, but the Aussie says she has other plans.

“I’m actually looking forward to a couple weeks off and some down time,” she said. “Going to go back to Perth during Arkansas and Dallas, so hopefully I can enjoy this one back home with my friends and family.”

Hull fell just short of her third LPGA win.

New No. 1 in Rolex Rankings

2023 Kroger Queen City Championship
Ruoning Yin plays her shot from the fifth tee during the final round of the 2023 Kroger Queen City Championship at Kenwood Country Club in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Photo: Dylan Buell/Getty Images)

Ruoning Yin, who finished solo third at 14 under, couldn’t quite catch the leaders but by virtue of a top-4 finish, will ascend to the No. 1 spot when the Rolex Rankings are updated on Monday.

She will unseat Lilia Vu, who climbed to No. 1 a month ago after winning the 2023 AIG Women’s Open. Yin, No. 2 in the rankings heading into the week, was outside the top 400 this time a year ago.

Defending champ earns solo fourth

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Ally Ewing tees off on first hole during the final round of the 2023 Kroger Queen City Championship in at Kenwood Country Club. (Photo: Albert Cesare/The Enquirer)

Ally Ewing, who won the inaugural Kroger Queen City Championship in 2022, shot a 66 and finished solo fourth.

Mel Reid also shot a final-round 66 to earn a tie for fifth, posting her best finish of the season and first top-10. She came into the Kroger having missed the cut in four of her last five outings.

Another Sunday 66 was recorded by Brooke Henderson, who was celebrating her 26th birthday. She tied for 23rd.

Rose Zhang tapped in for par for a 72 on Sunday, a day after posting a 73. She finished tied for 31st.

A total of 80 golfers made the cut and played the weekend.

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U.S. Women’s Open champ leads list of notables to miss the cut at LPGA’s Kroger Queen City Championship

Those headed home early are getting a two-day headstart on a three-week break on the LPGA.

The first two rounds of the LPGA’s Kroger Queen City Championship at Kenwood Country Club in Cincinnati, Ohio, are in the books.

Peiyun Chien, a 32-year-old from Chinese Taipei, shot a 64 a day after posting a 66 and leads at 14 under, four shots ahead of the field. Chien has eight top-10s in six years as a pro but may finally break through in a big way this week.

However, several big names in the field this week are headed home early and they’re getting a two-day headstart on a three-week break on the LPGA. The Solheim Cup is in two weeks but the next LPGA event isn’t until the end of the month at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship.

The 36-hole cut came in at 1 under. Here are five big names who missed the weekend at the Kroger Queen City Championship.