Lorena Ochoa earned the first of 13 automatic spots in the ADT Championship field with her victory at the HSBC Women's Champions, which is deemed a Winner Event in LPGA Playoffs 2008 because of its $2 million purse. Annika Sorenstam leads the race to the ADT Championship with 415,645 ADT Points through three events in 2008. Sorenstam, a winner at the SBS Open at Turtle Bay, leads Creamer—the winner of the Fields Open in Hawaii—by just over 70,000 ADT Points.

LPGA Playoffs 2008 splits the 2008 Tour season into two halves, in which players will qualify for the 32-player season ADT Championship via a combination of Winner Events (official LPGA Tour events with purses of at least $2 million) and ADT Points.