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Here’s what’s on the line at the CME Group Tour Championship

2022 Walmart NW Arkansas Championship

Minjee Lee during the first round of the 2022 Walmart NW Arkansas Championship at Pinnacle Country Club in Rogers, Arkansas. (Photo: Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

A total of eight players have a chance to earn the LPGA money title this season. Minjee Lee currently leads the race at $3,759,835. She’s $1,136,100 ahead of In Gee Chun, who won the KPMG Women’s PGA. Chun must win the $2 million first-place prize and have Minjee Lee finish solo second or worse to top the list.

Other players who must win to have a chance include Ko, Henderson, Thitikul, Hye-Jin Choi, Jennifer Kupcho and Lexi Thompson.

Should Lee win, she’d break Lorena Ochoa’s single-season earnings record of $4,354,994, set in 2007.

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