What does the LPGA have to be thankful for? Here are five things as 2021 winds down.

It was a year that saw the LPGA go through some big changes.

The LPGA season ended last weekend in Naples, Fla., with the final round of the CME Group Tour Championship, a spirited day with some of the game’s best players fighting for a win and a variety of season-long awards in the women’s game.

It was a year that saw the LPGA go through some big changes, and also a year that saw the tour try to get back to what it was in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic started to take a huge toll on the women’s game with tournament cancellations.

Here are five of the biggest stories from the women’s tour in 2021: