LPGA golfers will compete for a file $131 million in purse cash in 2025, the circuit’s seventy fifth anniversary season, the tour introduced Wednesday.
The LPGA’s 33-event schedule tees off with the Hilton Grand Holidays Match of Champions in Orlando, Florida, from Jan. 30-Feb. 2 and concludes with the CME Group Tour Championship in Naples, Florida, from Nov. 20-23.
The 2025 schedule features a new cease on the Black Desert Championship in Ivins, Utah, from Could 1-4, and a return to Cancun, Mexico, for the Riviera Maya Open three weeks later. It will likely be the primary LPGA event performed in Cancun since 2017.
The LPGA will maintain tournaments in 14 U.S. states and 11 different international locations, together with two multievent Asian swings within the spring and fall and a European swing in the summertime.
“The 2024 season was one other yr of historic progress for the LPGA Tour, and with this 2025 schedule we are going to proceed to enhance on that progress,” LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan mentioned in an announcement. “This schedule is highlighted by two thrilling new occasions, a brand new multi-year title for the longest-running non-major event on the LPGA Tour, even increased purse sizes, elevated advantages that may improve the athlete expertise, improved geographical movement and an extended offseason that may give our athletes a well-deserved relaxation after their large work in 2024.”
The file prize cash represents a 90% improve of greater than $62 million since 2021, the LPGA mentioned. The tour mentioned nonmajor tournaments will supply $83 million in prize cash and 16 tournaments can have purses of a minimum of $3 million, together with 10 nonmajor and non-Tour Championship occasions.
On high of the elevated purses, 24 occasions will supply golfers journey stipends, free lodging and/or assured minimal payouts.
Marcoux Samaan additionally mentioned the LPGA can have absolutely backed medical health insurance for its gamers subsequent yr. Beforehand, that they had an $1,800 stipend in 2021 that grew to $4,000 this yr. Full protection is “one thing we have been engaged on on this group for a very very long time, and we’re actually happy with that,” she mentioned.
The CME Group Tour Championship can have an $11 million purse, together with $4 million to the winner, the most important single prize within the historical past of girls’s golf.
There shall be $47 million at stake within the 5 main championships, which start on the Chevron Championship in The Woodlands, Texas, April 24-27. The U.S. Girls’s Open shall be performed at Erin Hills in Wisconsin for the primary time from Could 29-June 1 adopted by a primary cease on the PGA of America headquarters in Frisco, Texas, for the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship from June 19-22.
The Amundi Evian Championship in France is scheduled for July 10-13, and the key season wraps up three weeks later with the AIG Girls’s Open in Wales.
The Hanwha LIFEPLUS Worldwide Crown, a 32-player, match-play group occasion, returns after a one-year hiatus. The unofficial occasion shall be performed at New Korea Nation Membership in late October. LPGA golfers may even compete with PGA gamers within the Grant Thornton Invitational, one other unofficial occasion, in December.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
