After a season where every story seemed to top the previous one in 2014, look for more of the same in 2015. As Mechelle Voepel of ESPN.com put it: “For 2015, expect to see a lot of the same things we saw this year. Which is good news for the LPGA.” Here’s a couple of the storylines for the LPGA fans to look forward to heading into the 2015 season.

If a rivalry is two players hating each other, this surely isn’t the best rivalry in golf. However, if a rivalry is a competition for supremacy in the same field, then is there really a better rivalry in professional golf over the last three years than Stacy Lewis and Inbee Park?

Each has wanted what the other has had for the last three years and that’s not changing in 2015. Stacy Lewis wants the Rolex No. 1 World Ranking back. Park wants the Vare Trophy, Rolex Player of the Year and money list title back.

It’s essentially been a gift exchange of sorts the last couple of years for the game’s most coveted awards between the two. Park won the 2012 Vare Trophy. Lewis took it home in 2013 and 2014. Lewis won the 2012 Rolex Player of the Year. Park won it in 2013 before Lewis engraved her name back in the trophy in 2014. Same for the money list – Park in 2012 and 2013 and Lewis in 2014.

The Rolex No. 1 World Ranking has been much of the same. After Lewis held the No. 1 ranking for four weeks in 2013 for the first time of her career, Park stole it and held onto the top spot for 59 weeks. But again, Lewis regained it with a win in late May this year at the ShopRite LPGA Classic Presented by Acer. She would hold onto it this time for 21 weeks before Park again seized control of the spot she’s held ever since.

“I feel like we've really helped each other to improve each other's game,” Park said. “If there was just me and nobody playing as consistent as me, then I probably wouldn't have a lot of motivation. It's good to play against a player like that.”

Their consistency is similar but their games aren’t. They “get it done in different ways” as Lewis put it. For whatever reason, whether it’s how their games fit with different courses, that hasn’t always been at the same course or tournaments. To Lewis, that’s the next evolution of this rivalry that’s been missing in recent years.

“You look now three years that the two of us have gone back and forth for Vare Trophy, Player of the Year and all that kind of stuff. So maybe it's becoming a rivalry now as our games evolved to play better on the same golf courses,” Lewis said. “We get more rivalries as we get more head‑to‑head action. I think you need the head‑to‑head action for it to become a true rivalry on the golf course.”

The two are too consistent, too frequently in the top 10 for more of that not to be on the way in 2015.

Rivalry in 2015: Lewis vs. Park

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