The LPGA handed out several awards during its annual banquet Monday night at The Ritz-Carlton in Naples, Florida.<\/p>\n
Japan\u2019s Miyu Yamashita was presented as the Louise Suggs Rookie of the Year after the prolific JLPGA winner captured two LPGA titles, including the AIG Women\u2019s Open. Yamashita is the third Japanese player to win the honor, joining Mao Saigo and Hiromi Kobayashi.<\/p>\n
Speaking of majors, Australia\u2019s Minjee Lee received the Rolex Annika Major Award for her major performances, which didn\u2019t include a single finish outside the top 25 in her five starts.<\/p>\n
Lindy Duncan won the Heather Farr Perseverance Award while Stacy Lewis was the recipient of the Founders Award. And Jennifer Kupcho locked up the Aon Risk-Reward Challenge and that honor\u2019s $1 million check. <\/p>\n
However, there is still some hardware left to be decided at this week\u2019s CME Group Tour Championship at Tiburon Golf Club.<\/p>\n
Yamashita is chasing World No. 1 Jeeno Thitikul for Rolex Player of the Year, though Yamashita\u2019s only chance of overtaking Thitikul, last year\u2019s CME finale winner and 16 points clear of Yamashita in this season\u2019s POY race, is to win. If she does win POY, Yamashita would join Nancy Lopez as just the second player in LPGA history win POY and ROY in the same season.<\/p>\n
Thitikul is also comfortably leading the Vare Trophy race with a scoring average of 68.88 this season. Nelly Korda is second at 69.58.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The LPGA handed out several awards during its annual banquet Monday night at The Ritz-Carlton in Naples, Florida.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-292946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292946","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=292946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}