Can’t keep going forever … Or not?
This is what the usual sense, not to mention the mathematics or years of golf history, would believe. And yet, another week has passed, playing another LPGA tour, and another unique winner raised the trophy.
LPGA Tour has been waiting 26 events this season and all 26 were won by different players. This week’s winner at the Lotte Championship in Hawaii? Sponsor invites Yumi Hwang, who is not even a member of the LPGA Tour. And she will not be a member of the LPGA Tour by 2026. She chose to delay her full membership benefits for next year.
Meanwhile, the ribbon continues. Throughout the victory of a Lim Kim in February, through the Major season until now, eight months later. Was a Lydia Win, a Charley Hull WinA win over three Swedes, five Japanese players and a handful of Americans. World no. 1 Jeeno Thitikul caught one, as expected, but not two. It has finished four times the second, including its last two beginnings, trying its best to cancel this belt, but finding itself barely unsuccessful.
What does this tour of the tour ultimately say is a bit a Rorschach test. On the one hand, 26 different winners show an extraordinary level of equality, which most sports leagues would like to see. On the other hand, without a clear winner, many times, not only do we not have a data that should be considered the player of the year, but there is no prevailing star that puts the LPGA in front of the new audience. (Coincidentally, 26 is the record for most unique winners in the history of LPGA Tour.)
Perhaps the most amazing element of 26 different winners in 26 weeks is that Nelly cord -The 7-time winner of last season-is not one of them. Cord has not necessarily fought this year; She just didn’t play at the winning level we’ve come to wait. She agreed to feed some injuries that will not leave, but will be the most favorites for anyone who wants this crazy belt to continue.
For those who want 27 unique winners, the LPGA goes from Hawaii to Shanghai, China. Sei Young Kim, Ariya Jutanugarn, Nasa Hataoka and Gaby Lopez have had more success this year and are not broken.
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