{"id":185091,"date":"2025-10-02T13:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/185091\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T13:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:41:09","slug":"is-lpga-tour-winning-trend-an-issue-does-womens-golf-need-a-big-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/185091\/","title":{"rendered":"Is LPGA Tour Winning Trend An Issue? Does Women’s Golf Need A Big Star?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A remarkable winning streak that shows just how wide open and exciting the LPGA Tour<\/a> is or a big problem not having a standout star? That’s the question at the pinnacle of women’s pro golf.<\/p>\n

As this season has been extraordinary due to the fact that from the 24 tournaments completed on the LPGA Tour schedule<\/a> there have been 24 different winners.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

It’s actually 25 different players who have taken home a trophy as Somi Lee and Jin Hee Im won the Dow Championship pairs event.<\/a><\/p>\n

You may like<\/p>\n

Dating back to the start of the season in January at the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament<\/a> – each LPGA Tour event has seen a new winner, but is that good for the game?<\/p>\n

Is strength in depth a plus?<\/p>\n

The LPGA Tour heads to Hawaii for the LOTTE Championship this week with, as you’d expect, a wide-open field given we’ve had a different winner each tournament.<\/p>\n

If there’s another new winner for 2025 it will match the LPGA Tour record with 26 different players claiming a title in one season – which has only previously happened three times, in 1995, 2018 and 2022.<\/p>\n

And there’s still seven tournaments left to set a new record of 27 different winners, as rookies in particular have made a big impact when hitting the ground running.<\/p>\n

Subscribe to the Golf Monthly newsletter to stay up to date with all the latest tour news, equipment news, reviews, head-to-heads and buyer\u2019s guides from our team of experienced experts.<\/p>\n

There’s been 11 first-time winners on the LPGA Tour this year, including seven rookies picking up tournament victories in their debut seasons.<\/p>\n

It’s just the second time since 1980 that seven rookies have tasted victory, so with new players making a big splash and so many able to clinch tournament wins, doesn’t that bode well for the future?<\/p>\n

That’s great for the competition and regular LPGA supporters, but for the wider golf and sports fans, a big star is often needed to cut through.<\/p>\n

Where’s Nelly? Is lack of superstar a problem?<\/p>\n

\n

\"Nelly\n<\/p>\n

(Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Nelly Korda made a huge splash<\/a> last year with a remarkable winning run catapulting her into sporting folklore and a popularity that transcended just the world of women’s golf.<\/p>\n

Korda became just the third woman ever to win five consecutive starts, which inlcuded her second Major, before going on to win six in seven.<\/p>\n

She eventually ended 2024 with seven wins<\/a> and built the kind of stardom that can often change an entire sport – but incredibly she’s not managed one single victory this year.<\/p>\n

And like it or not, that’s a blow for the game as it’s stars like Korda that can really carry the women’s game to a new level – yes she needs competition but as last year showed she can also bring more eyeballs on the sport than almost anyone else.<\/p>\n

The new challengers are important, nobody wants a boring walkover week after week, but Korda caught the imagination – she wasn’t quite at the level of Caitlin Clark but she was up there.<\/p>\n

And Clark showed just how one superstar could elevate an entire sport, bring in more attention and more viewers that would ultimately turn into increased coverage, sponsorship and revenue.<\/p>\n

Having all these new winners is great for true fans, but it may not garner the attention a record-setting Korda did last year – it may not be Korda that becomes the game’s standout star, but it’s clear the game really could do with one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A remarkable winning streak that shows just how wide open and exciting the LPGA Tour is or a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-185091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}