After last week’s dramatic first Major of the year, the Chevron Championship, where Lilia Vu held off the challenge of Angle Yin in a playoff, some of the best players in the world head to California for the JM Eagle LA Championship.
Fresh from her maiden Major title, Vu is back in action this week looking to build on an impressive season to date that also included victory in the Honda LPGA Thailand. Yin also plays this week, hoping to shake off the disappointment of missing out so narrowly last week.
Right behind Vu and Yin at Carlton Woods was Nelly Korda, and her finish of third was enough to see her return to the World No.1 slot for the first time since November. She also plays this week, hoping to consolidate that position.
The player she replaced at the top, Lydia Ko, is missing from this week’s field. However, there is an array of world-class talent elsewhere in what is one of four new tournaments on the LPGA Tour this season.
The tournament may be new, but it is taking place at a venue familiar to the LPGA Tour. The action will take place at Wilshere Country Club, which previously hosted the DIO Implant LA Open. Last year’s winner of that tournament was Nasa Hataoko, and she’ll be another to watch this week given her relatively recent success at the course. Meanwhile, previous winners at the course include World No.6 Minjee Lee and World No.8 Brooke Henderson, and they both appear this week too.
Others from the world’s top 10 in this week’s field include World No.3 Jin Young Ko, World No.5 Atthaya Thitikul, World No.9 Celine Boutier and World No.10 Georgia Hall.
Ko has four top-10 finishes in her five appearances this year, and after a tie for ninth last week, there’s every reason to expect her to perform well again, particularly as she finished runner-up to Hataoka at the venue in 2022.
Former World No.1 Thitikul’s finished tied for fourth last week, and she will be looking for another strong finish as she aims for her first victory since September’s Walmart NW Arkansas Championship.
Boutier has more recent success having won last month’s LPGA Drive On Championship and she heads into this week’s tournament on the back of a tie for 14th in the Chevron Championship.
As for Hall, she has also been excellent recent form including a runner-up finish in the tournament Boutier won in March.
As well as Vu, there will be several other Californians hoping to make a big impact this week, including Allisen Corpuz, who finished tied for eighth…
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