Once again, it’s major championship time on the LPGA Tour.

The pressure will intensify, nerves will be running rampant and the magnitude of another major title up for grabs will be paramount this week as the world’s best women golfers tee it up in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. The eyes of the golf world will focus on the event’s new home, Westchester Country Club, a par-73, 6,670-yard test that will put a premium on great shots and deadeye putts.

Inbee Park is back to defend her title from the last two years and attempt to win the same major three consecutive times for the first time since Hall of Famer Annika Sorenstam accomplished that feat from 2003-05 at the same event. Park, who tied for 11^th on Sunday at the Manulife LPGA Classic in Canada, is playing great golf and would love to add a fifth career major championship to her resume.

The KPMG Women’s PGA Championship is the Tour’s second-longest-running tournament and boasts an immensely impressive list of past champions. In addition to Park, Shanshan Feng (2012), Yani Tseng (2008, 2011), Cristie Kerr (2010), Anna Nordqvist (2009), Suzann Pettersen (2007), Se Ri Pak (1998, 2002, 2006), Karrie Webb (2001), Juli Inkster (1999-2000) and Laura Davies (1994) are in this week’s loaded field.

Of those 10 past champions, four have won tournaments this season, including Sunday’s champion Pettersen. In addition, last week’s runner-up, Brittany Lang, will ride four consecutive rounds in the 60s into this week’s $3.5 million event.

All 11 tournament winners from the 2015 season will be gunning for the massive first-place check, and Brittany Lincicome will have added incentive to win a third career major title. Lincicome would love to turn the tables on Park, who defeated her in sudden death at this event a year ago, and is looking to protect her points lead in the race for the Rolex ANNIKA Major Award as well after claiming the Tour’s first major title of this season at the ANA Inspiration in early April.

World No. 1 Lydia Ko, two-time and reigning Rolex Player of the Year Stacy Lewis and Park’s fellow 2014 major champions Michelle Wie, Mo Martin, Lexi Thompson and Hyo Joo Kim will be in action this weekend as well. Pettersen’s victory ran the winless streak for U.S.-born players to six events, so they should have ample motivation to fight for spots atop the leaderboard as the 72-hole event proceeds.

This week kicks off a 10-event extravaganza that includes the Tour’s final four majors, nearly $25 million in prize money and an immense amount of points in the LPGA’s various awards races. It truly will be a spectacle to behold and will take the season into its home stretch in style.

It all begins in New York, and Golf Channel and NBC will be there to broadcast the action live. Golf Channel will carry Thursday’s and Friday’s rounds, with NBC televising the final 36 holes over the weekend.

It’s major time again for LPGA Tour

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