Believe it or not we are a third of the way through the LPGA Tour season, with 11 out of 33 tournaments already having been completed. There has been no shortage of terrific events already, so let’s take a look back at the young season and what the best weekends on Tour have been.
No. 11 – Blue Bay LPGA – While it is always thrilling to see a young superstar like Rio Takeda win and really cement herself as a feared player on the LPGA Tour, there just wasn’t a whole lot of drama here. Takeda’s incredible -8 round, where she made five back nine birdies, made the result clear fairly early in the day. Takeda won the event by six strokes, the largest margin of victory this season.
No. 10 – Black Desert Championship – The LPGA’s return to Utah saw the most stunning views of the year, but a post-major field that left a bit to be desired and bad broadcast luck really brings this one down. Haeran Ryu continued her rise and was given some competition throughout the week by prominent names like Esther Henseleit and Ruoning Yin, but Sunday was all about Ryu, where she won by five strokes.
No. 9 – Founders Cup – After fireworks at Bradenton Country Club in 2024, not much was happening in 2025 for one of the more standard finishes of the year. In what appeared to be a duel between two-time major champion Jin Young Ko and Yealimi Noh looking for her first win, turned into a somewhat easy cruise to victory for the young American. Noh really left no room for a comeback and Ko’s bad back nine made it easier for her to gain that first win on the LPGA Tour.
No. 8 – Mizuho Americas Classic – This certainly gets helped out by the strength at the top of the leaderboard, as the top two players in the world were in heavy contention all weekend. The stunning views of Manhattan at the awesome Liberty National didn’t hurt either. What looked to be a promising Sunday devolved into a blowout victory for Thitikul, where she never felt challenged on the back nine, winning by four strokes.
No. 7 – HSBC Women’s World Championship – Similarly to the Mizuho Americas Classic, this event had a ton of potential. The last event on this list that wasn’t thrilling down the stretch, the leaderboard coming into Sunday had superstars like Lydia Ko, Charley Hull, Ayaka Furue and Hannah Green all in contention. Lydia Ko was just too much for the rest of the field though, playing a terrific front nine and keeping her lead steady on the back. Ko was a bit less stable in the final round than Thitikul, which is what brings this event up to No. 7.
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