The LPGA Tour heads to the People’s Republic of China this week for the Blue Bay LPGA, an event that hasn’t been contested since 2018. Three past champions are in the 108-player field along with five of the top 10 in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings, including world No. 1 Lilia Vu and Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions winner Lydia Ko, who will earn her way into the LPGA Hall of Fame with a victory at the Jian Lake Blue Bay Golf Course. Eleven of the 26 2024 rookies are also set to tee it up, three of which are Epson Tour graduates Isabella Fierro, Auston Kim and Gabriela Ruffels, and 25 members of the China Golf Association will compete, including Muni He, Ruixin Liu and the Epson Tour’s Miranda Wang.
Take a look at who else is in the field this week at the Blue Bay LPGA:
Past Champions (3):
Gaby Lopez (2018), Minjee Lee (2016), Sei Young Kim (2015)
2024 LPGA Tour Winners (1 of 4):
Lydia Ko (Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions)
2024 LPGA Tour Rookies (11 of 26):
Isabella Fierro, Savannah Grewal, Mone Inami, Gurleen Kaur, Auston Kim, Mary Liu, Yue Ren, Gabriela Ruffels, Mao Saigo, Yu Jin Sung, Liqi Zeng
Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings Top 10 (5 of 10):
Lilia Vu (No. 1), Celine Boutier (No. 3), Ruoning Yin (No. 4), Minjee Lee (No. 5), Lydia Ko (No. 7)
China Golf Association (CGA) Players:
Li Liu, Muni He, Ruixin Liu, Shuying Li, Miranda Wang, Michelle Zhang, Xiang Sui, Weiwei Zhang, Lei Ye, Yue Ren, Zixuan Wang (a), Yua Ji, Yanhong Pan, Xinyu Cao, Yuli Shi, Danlin Cai, Jiaze Sun, Zixin Ni (a), Tong An (a), Zhimeng Zhao, Yijia Ren (a), Lingling Tan, Shuangshuang Fan, Kaili Xiao (a), Wenbo Liu
Sponsor Exemptions:
Sandra Gal, Yujie Liu (a), Lucy Li, Iris Wang, Manlixiang Yang
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