The 2017 season is sure off to an amazing start. As has been the case for the past number of years, it seems that every tournament goes down to the very last hole, or results in a playoff.
Congratulations go out to Brittany Lincicome who won the Pure Silk LPGA Bahamas Classic, the first tournament of the year, in (of course) a playoff!
It was a very fast start for some of the 2017 LPGA rookies:
Nelly Korda shot -21 under par in her first tournament as an LPGA member (5th place).Laura Gonzalez Escallon shot a score of -18 (9th place).Mel Reid -15 (13th place).
That brings us to today's subject. Just how good is this year's crop of LPGA rookies?
Last year was a very difficult one for LPGA rookies. Only 6 of 29 rookies finished in the top 100 on the year money list. Three more retained their playing privileges by way of their stellar Symetra tour play. This was a dramatic decrease from 2015 when we had a spectacular rookie crop, but also down substantially from 2014.
2016 - 9 of 2…
Congratulations go out to Brittany Lincicome who won the Pure Silk LPGA Bahamas Classic, the first tournament of the year, in (of course) a playoff!
It was a very fast start for some of the 2017 LPGA rookies:
Nelly Korda shot -21 under par in her first tournament as an LPGA member (5th place).Laura Gonzalez Escallon shot a score of -18 (9th place).Mel Reid -15 (13th place).
That brings us to today's subject. Just how good is this year's crop of LPGA rookies?
Last year was a very difficult one for LPGA rookies. Only 6 of 29 rookies finished in the top 100 on the year money list. Three more retained their playing privileges by way of their stellar Symetra tour play. This was a dramatic decrease from 2015 when we had a spectacular rookie crop, but also down substantially from 2014.
2016 - 9 of 2…