Evian-les-Bains, France  – So Yeon Ryu, of the Republic of Korea, has won the 2017 Rolex ANNIKA Major Award, which recognizes the player who has the most outstanding record in all five major championships during the current LPGA Tour season.

Ryu received the honor thanks to her win at the ANA inspiration, her second career major championship victory, and a tie for third at the U.S. Women’s Open Championship.

The 27-year-old, who joins Michelle Wie (2014), Inbee Park (2015) and Lydia Ko (2016) as winners of the award, was recognized in a ceremony on the 18th green at The Evian Championship, wrapping up an exciting season of majors in 2017.

“First of all, I’m so honoured to this have award, especially (because) it’s named after one of the greatest women’s golfers in our golf history,” Ryu said. “The other thing is I think the play in the major is fortunate enough, because it’s really tough to contend in a tournament, as well. But at the same time, it’s truly an honour to have this award because that means I was able to handle all of the major tournaments.”

Points for the Rolex ANNIKA Major Award are awarded at all five major championships to competitors who finish among the top 10 and ties. To take home the award, a player must also win at least one of the five majors. Danielle Kang (KPMG Women’s PGA Championship), Sung Hyun Park (U.S. Women’s Open), In-Kyung Kim (Ricoh Women’s British Open) and Anna Nordqvist (The Evian Championship) were the other players to qualify.

Ryu has enjoyed one of the best seasons of her LPGA career this year. Her two wins (ANA Inspiration, Walmart NW Arkansas Championship presented by P&G) are the second-most by a single player on Tour this season and represent the first time she has won multiple events in the same season. Ryu has racked up eight additional top-10 finishes, including two runner-up results, and currently holds the lead in the Rolex Player of the Year standings with 150 points.

On June 26, Ryu became the third player from the Republic of Korea to reach No. 1 in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings. She is the 11th different golfer to reach No. 1 since the Rolex Rankings started in 2009 and has held the top spot for the past 12 weeks.

A nine-time winner on the Korea Ladies Professional Golf Association, Ryu earned LPGA membership by defeating Hee Kyung Seo in a three-hole playoff at the 2011 U.S. Women’s Open for her first career LPGA win and major championship. In 2012, one win and 15 additional top-10 finishes helped earn her the Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year award. She added a third LPGA win in 2014 and also collected a win on the Ladies European Tour in 2015 before her two wins this year.

EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France – Moriya Jutanugarn of Thailand shot 3-under 68 to lead the Evian Championship second round on Saturday, and could join her younger sister Ariya in golf’s record book.

Seeking to be the first sisters to win a major title, Moriya’s 9-under total left her one shot ahead of Ayako Uehara of Japan, who had seven birdies in her round of 66.

The leading group on Sunday is completed by Katherine Kirk of Australia, who carded a 69 to trail Moriya by two strokes. All three playing partners will seek their first major.

Victory for the Moriya – who as a career-best finish of 10th at a major – would make the Jutanugarns the first sisters to win a Grand Slam title since the U.S. LPGA Tour was founded 67 years ago.

Ariya, who was top-ranked this season, won the 2016 Women’s British Open.

“I probably don’t feel that bad playing on the golf course rather than watching my sister play,” said Moriya, who recalled feeling “nervous, excited” last year when finishing her round to watch Ariya win at Woburn, England.

Canada’s Brooke Henderson shot a 71 to sit at 3 over and slip inside the cut line.

Two pairs of brothers have won major titles, though not for more than 50 years.

Lionel and Jay Hebert of the United States each won a U.S. PGA Championship, in 1957 and 1960, respectively. The Park brothers of Scotland, Mungo and Willie, won back-to-back British Opens in 1874 and ’75. That was Willie Park’s fourth Open title.

The fifth women’s major of the season is a 54-hole event after weather-affected play on Thursday was wiped from the record.

Moriya had chances to match her 65 from Friday’s first round though let birdie chances slip after consistently accurate approach shots.

“I played pretty solid today,” Moriya said, “couldn’t make a little more putts.”

Uehara is ranked only No. 163 yet her 14 birdies so far are two more than anyone else on the rain-softened Evian Resort course looking across Lake Geneva to Switzerland.

A strong trio of recent major winners are on 6 under, three shots back, and will play together on Sunday.

First-round leader Sung Hyun Park, the U.S. Women’s Open champion, followed her 63 with a 73. Former No. 1 Lydia Ko of New Zealand, the 2015 Evian winner, carded a second 68. Women’s British Open winner In-Kyung Kim bogeyed the par-4 18th in her round of 69.

Park has already played two days in a stellar group of the world’s three highest-ranked players with No. 1 So Yeon Ryu, her fellow South Korean, and No. 2 Lexi Thompson of the U.S.

Thompson (72) is level par and Ryu shot a 69 to make the cut at 2 over. Ryu acknowledged letting it affect her that she had been leading on Thursday when play was suspended and then scrapped.

“It was really hard to stop (thinking) about it,” the top-ranked Ryu said. “For my situation it was unfair. I just need to just accept it.”

Ariya won’t be playing on Sunday when her sister chases history. A second-round 74 left her 9 over and far below the cut line.

Defending champion In Gee Chun of South Korea, whose 21-under total then set a majors record, shot a second straight 70 to be 2 under.

EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France – Sung Hyun Park took full advantage of a fresh start to the Evian Championship on Friday, firing an 8-under 63 to lead the rescheduled first round by three shots.

That meant a 14-shot turnaround for the No. 3-ranked Park, who had been 6 over through five holes in the rain and wind on Thursday morning. Play was abandoned and all scores wiped from the record, leaving the fifth and final women’s major as a 54-hole event.

The South Korean regrouped and had seven birdies and an eagle to lead by three from Australia’s Katherine Kirk (66).

“I forgot about yesterday and just focused on my play today,” Park said through a translator, acknowledging she was “surprised” that the U.S. LPGA scrapped Thursday’s play.

Tied for third four strokes back were Jessica Korda of the United States and Women’s British Open winner In-Kyung Kim.

Park, the U.S. Women’s Open champion, played in a stellar group with top-ranked So Yeon Ryu (75), her fellow South Korean, and No. 2 Lexi Thompson (70) of the U.S.

Ryu suffered a six-shot swing having been 2 under and sharing the lead with Korda on Thursday when play stopped.

Kirk, playing in the first group on course for a second straight day, said just before the suspension that Thursday had been “the worst conditions I have ever seen.”

Another player to seize their second chance in the cool sunshine was Ai Miyazato of Japan, who is playing her final event before retiring.

Miyazato, the 2009 and 2011 Evian winner before it had major status, was in a cluster of players at 3 under, trailing Park by five.

Lydia Ko, the former No. 1 from New Zealand and 2015 winner here, also shot a 3-under 68 on the scenic course looking across Lake Geneva to Switzerland.

English veteran Laura Davies, who won the last of her four majors 21 years ago, shot a 2-under 69 that included six birdies and four bogeys.

Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., opened with a 74 while Brittany Marchand of Orangeville, Ont., struggled to a 78.

PORTLAND, Ore. – Stacy Lewis won for Houston.

Lewis ended a long winless streak Sunday at Cambia Portland Classic, with her $195,000 in winnings going to the relief efforts in her hometown area. Her two biggest sponsors also stepped up, with KPMG matching her donation and Marathon Oil kicking in $1 million.

“Probably was more pressure, to be honest,” Lewis said. “Honestly, I think that’s what helped me through the week, just knowing people wanted me to do well. People wanted me to win this for Houston. To do it when I added pressure to myself is a pretty good, pretty cool deal.”

The 32-year-old Lewis, from The Woodlands just north of Houston, won her 12th LPGA Tour title and first since June 2014, ending a frustrating stretch that included 12 runner-up finishes. She closed with a 3-under 69 to hold off In Gee Chun by a stroke at tree-lined Columbia Edgewater.

“Just kind of handed over control and said, ‘Take me. Take me to the finish line. Let me know what happens, God,”’ Lewis said. “It was just amazing how when you let go of the control like that how great you can play.”

Lewis embraced and kissed husband Gerrod Chadwell, the University of Houston women’s golf coach, on the 18th green. She didn’t know he had made the trip to Oregon until he appeared on the green – after hiding out in the Golf Channel tower during the round.

“I was fine until he showed up, and then I started crying,” Lewis said. “You go through all the emotions of finishing second when sometimes it’s your fault and sometimes it’s not, and things just don’t seem to ever go your way and you get really frustrated at times. He went through all of that with me, and it was probably as hard on him as it was on me. So just to have him here and get to share the win with him was pretty special.”

The couple lives at the Golf Club of Houston – the site of the PGA Tour’s Shell Houston Open – in Humble.

Lewis parred the final 11 holes. She got up-and-down from off the green on the par-4 17th and reached the green on the par-4 18th from a fairway bunker to set up her winning two-putt.

“I kind of resigned to the fact that whatever was going to happen was going to happen,” Lewis said. “I just needed to commit to my golf shots and hit them. I pulled off a great up-and-down on 17 and probably hit one of shots of my life on 18.”

Chun also parred the final two holes in a 66.

Lewis finished at 20-under 268 after opening with rounds of 70, 64 and 65 to take a three-stroke lead into the final round. She also broke through in Portland after finishing second twice – two strokes behind Suzann Pettersen in 2013 and four shots behind Canadian Brooke Henderson last year.

On Sunday, she birdied four of the first seven holes, and made the turn four strokes ahead of Chun.

Chun cut the lead to two with birdies at the par-5 10th and 12th. Chun missed a short birdie putt at the par-4 14th, and pulled to within a stroke with a birdie at the par-3 16th.

Perhaps the biggest hole of the day for Lewis came at the difficult 17th when she hit her approach over the green and saved par after chipping 7 feet past the hole.

“I hit a really good chip,” Lewis said. “I knew I was going to have at least a 5-footer, and just hit one of the best putts I’ve hit on that back nine.”

Chun missed a 10-foot birdie putt on the hole.

“It was a great round today,” Chun said. “But Stacy’s play was good, too. I really enjoy playing with Stacy. I know Stacy have a little hard time before, so I want to give her a big congratulations.”

The South Korean player was bogey-free the final 53 holes.

Brittany Altomare (69) and Moriya Jutanugarn (72) tied for third at 14 under.

Ai Miyazato shot a 67 to tie for fifth at 13 under in the Japanese star’s final U.S. start. The 2010 Portland winner plans to retire after The Evian Championship in two weeks in France.

“It’s been a tremendous week for me,” Miyazato said. “On the last hole, I got really emotional … I have so many great memories of this tournament. This is my favourite city forever now.”

Henderson, trying to win for the third straight year, had a 70 to tie for 15th at 10 under. The 19-year-old from Smiths Falls, Ont., had an eagle and three birdies in a four-hole stretch, but finished with a triple bogey on 18.

Hamilton’s Alena Sharp (73) was 6 under while Maude-Aimee Leblanc (72) of Sherbrooke, Que., was 2 over.

PORTLAND, Ore. – Stacy Lewis took a three-stroke lead Saturday in the Cambia Portland Classic in her bid make a big donation to hurricane relief in her hometown and end a long winless streak.

From The Woodlands in the Houston area, Lewis has pledged to give her earnings – first place is worth $195,000 – to the relief efforts. The 11-time LPGA Tour champion also is trying to win for the first time since June 2014.

“You try not to think about the finish line and what could happen tomorrow, but it would definitely be up there with a major,” said Lewis, a two-time major champion. “It would be probably one of my most special wins, just to be able to do this for the people in Texas and do it, too, when everybody is watching. I kind of put all the eyeballs on me and put some pressure on myself, so it’s nice to kind of see myself performing, too.”

Her husband, Gerrod Chadwell, is the University of Houston women’s golf coach.

Tied for the second-round lead with two-time defending champion Brooke Henderson and In Gee Chun, Lewis had eight birdies – five on the front nine – in a 7-under 65 at tree-lined Columbia Edgewater. She had a 17-under 199 total after opening with rounds of 70 and 64.

Moriya Jutanugarn was second after a 66. Chun was another stroke back after a 69.

Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., had a 74 to drop into a tie for 13th at 8 under. Hamilton’s Alena Sharp fired a 69 and is 7 under while Maude-Aimee Leblanc (75) of Sherbrooke, Que., is 2 over.

Ai Miyazato also was 8 under after a 72 in her final start in the United States. The Japanese star plans to retire after The Evian Championship in two weeks in France.

Lewis is trying to break through in Portland after finishing second twice – two strokes behind Suzann Pettersen in 2013 and four shots behind Henderson last year.

“I know it’s been a while since I won. Everybody talks about it. I really feel like the last few months I’ve been playing some good golf. I’ve just needed a couple good breaks here and there,” Lewis said.

Lewis calls Columbia-Edgewater “one of my favourite courses we actually play all year,” and her recent results back it up.

“You have to hit shots. You have to hit a little fade or a little draw. You can’t just get up there and bomb it,” Lewis said. “My caddie (Travis Wilson) has been here way more times than anybody probably in this field, and so I think we have an advantage as far as knowing the golf course.”

Jutanugarn briefly flirted with the lead after making six birdies on the first 10 holes. She’s trying to win her first LPGA Tour title after watching younger sister Ariya win six times in the last two years.

“I have been hitting solid and put myself in a lot of really good chances for birdie. Make some, miss some, but it’s still pretty solid round,” Jutanugarn said. “Back nine just a little rush, a little rough sometimes. Still, I think it hit it pretty good.”

Henderson, playing alongside Lewis, failed to break par for the first time in 11 career competitive rounds at Columbia-Edgewater, dashing the 19-year-old Canadian’s bid to become the youngest three-time winner of a tournament in LPGA Tour history.

Lewis rebounded from a bogey at the par-3 16th with a 5-foot birdie putt at the difficult par-4 17th. She’s within reach of the tournament 72-hole record of 21-under 267, set by Henderson in 2015.

Chun is playing the event for the first time. The South Korean player tied for third last week in the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open and has four runner-up finishes this season. Both of her LPGA Tour victories have come in majors – the 2015 U.S. Women’s Open and the 2016 Evian Championship.

PORTLAND, Ore. – Two-time defending champion Brooke Henderson of Canada shot a 5-under 67 on Friday for a share of first place after two rounds at the Cambia Portland Classic.

The 19-year-old from Smiths Falls, Ont., fired six birdies and an eagle to jump up the leaderboard from second to first place, where she was tied with first-round leader In Gee Chun of South Korea and American Stacy Lewis at 10 under.

Chun shot a 68 while Lewis had a 64. The trio have a two-shot lead over Jodi Ewart Shadoff, Moriya Jutanugarn and Ai Miyazato heading into the weekend.

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“It was a little bit up and down today,” said Henderson. “I made a lot of birdies and an eagle, which was awesome, although I made a couple bogeys that I’d like to take off the card for the next two days.

“But overall I feel like I have a solid game plan and any time I’m double digits over two days I’m really happy. So I hope I can continue that trend over the next two days.”

Henderson won the tournament in 2015 and 2016 and is trying to become the first golfer to win at Portland in three straight years.

Alena Sharp of Hamilton was 4 under after a 71 and Maude-Aimee Leblanc of Sherbrooke, Que., had a 73 to sit at 1 under after two rounds.

Henderson eagled on the par-4 11th hole. She also had three bogeys.

“It was pretty cool,” Henderson said of her shot on the 11th. “It was a really tough shot and to see it go in just made me really happy and it changed my day. I was able to go 4 under par after that point which was really important and help me get to 10 under.”

In Gee Chun shot a 6-under 66 on Thursday in the Cambia Portland Classic to take a one-stroke lead over two-time defending champion Brooke Henderson and five others.

Playing the event for the first time, the sixth-ranked Chun had seven birdies and a bogey at tree-lined Columbia Edgewater.

“Before coming here everyone said the course is really good,” Chun said. “I agreed. I like big trees. It’s amazing. And the greens are very consistent and really good condition.”

The South Korean player tied for third last week in the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open and has four runner-up finishes this season. Both of her LPGA Tour victories have come in majors _ the 2015 U.S. Women’s Open and the 2016 Evian Championship.

“I have not been able to win, but I think it was a strong finish,” Chun said. “Sometimes I had small stress from that part. … Just keep going, enjoying the process.”

Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., had six birdies and a bogey to match Cheyenne Woods, Cindy LaCrosse, Moriya Jutanugarn, Nicole Broch Larsen and Nasa Hataoka at 67.

“I think it just suits my eye,” Henderson said. “I love tree-lined courses and I love when it’s so green everywhere you look. The grass is very lush, and I love that. Just playing here I have so many incredible memories from two years ago, last year, and I just try to feed of the energy and adrenaline that I felt over the past couple years.”

After bogeying the par-4 eighth, the 19-year-old Canadian got up-and-down from a fairway bunker on the par-4 ninth, hitting a 7-iron from 157 yards to inches for a closing birdie.

“That bunker shot in the fairway on No. 9 really saved my whole round,” Henderson said. “I would’ve liked to finish a little bit lower today. I was 4 under through the front nine and things were going really well. I tried to make a few more birdies on the back but they just didn’t fall.”

Henderson set the tournament 72-hole record of 21-under 267 in 2015. She had a hole-in-one Wednesday in the pro-am playing alongside Nancy Lopez, the only three-time winner in event history. Henderson has four LPGA Tour victories, also winning the major KPMG Women’s PGA last year and the Meijer LPGA Classic in June.

Hamilton’s Alena Sharp is 3 under after a 69 while Maude-Aimee Leblanc of Sherbrooke, Que., fired a 70. Calgary’s Jennifer Ha is 3 over and Augusta James of Bath, Ont., is 7 over.

Lexi Thompson had an eagle and a double bogey in a 68. Also making her first start in the event, the second-ranked Thompson eagled the par-5 fifth to reach 4 under and was 5 under after a birdie on the par-4 11th, but dropped back with the double bogey after driving to right on the par-4 17th. She rebounded with a long birdie putt from the fringe on the par-4 18th.

“Definitely a ball-striker’s golf course,” Thompson said. “I have a good amount of wedges out there, but the greens get so firm. It’s important to get the landing yardage right so it stays pin-high and not bounce over the green.”

Ai Miyazato had a 69. Making her final start in the U.S., the Japanese star plans to retire after The Evian Championship in two weeks in France.

Stacy Lewis shot 70. The Houston-area player is donating her earnings to hurricane relief.

“A lot of messages and texts and people wanting to know how they can help,” Lewis said. “That’s kind of the point behind it, to get more people involved and create some awareness.”

Juli Inkster, the oldest player in the field at 57, had a 72 in the group with Chun.

Top-ranked So Yeon Ryu, playing alongside Thompson, opened with a 74.

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The key to Maude-Aimée LeBlanc’s improved play of late has been lightening up on herself, in more ways than one.

The challenge for Maude-Aimée LeBlanc has never been talent.

The 6-1 native of Sherbrooke, Que., uses her long levers to power a swing that has her ranked eighth on the LPGA Tour in average driving distance at close to 270 yards, just three behind leader Lexi Thompson.

The 28-year-old has shown such abilities throughout her career, winning the 2006 Canadian Junior Girls championship, the 2006 Junior Orange Bowl International and the 2010 NCAA Division I Team Championship for Purdue University.

The challenge for LeBlanc hasn’t been work ethic either.

At the 2016 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, she took up a spot on the far left side of the range at Sahalee Country Club. A crowd formed to watch the tall woman with the athletic swing knock out long shot after long shot.

People wandered off to watch other players tee off, followed them for nine holes and when they made the turn, walked by the range to see LeBlanc still in the same place, still knocking out long shot after long shot.

No, LeBlanc has always had an extreme talent for the game since she took it up at five, accompanying her dad, Gaston, to the course. She’s always had the drive and motivation too.

LeBlanc’s challenge, almost since the day she picked up a club, is controlling herself and the fire that she admits is sometimes all consuming, a greater obstacle than the course, the distance between her and the cup or even one of her opponents.

You might call her The Towering Inferno.

At the 2009 U.S. Women’s Amateur, Leblanc told Golfweek: “I think I have the worst temper here.”

Later that summer she stormed off the course at the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open when, still an amateur, she hit a shot into the water on her 36th hole, made a double-bogey and missed the cut by a stroke. She said she brooded for weeks and didn’t sleep because of that chunked shot into the drink at Priddis Greens near Calgary.

A year later, when she was at Purdue, her self-loathing on the golf course was judged to be unacceptable. She was the sixth-ranked player in the nation when her coach, Devon Brouse, sent her to the clubhouse after 11 holes of the second round of the Tiger/Wave Classic in New Orleans for unsportsmanlike conduct. She was 11 over par at the time. Brouse repeatedly used the word “disrespect” in explaining his decision.

Two months later, LeBlanc led the Boilermakers to that national championship.

She knows it. She knows she can’t conquer this game until she learns to find a way to regulate the pressures that threaten to suppress her talent and work ethic.

Pressure. It’s a word in a couple different definitions that defines what is happening in LeBlanc’s game and life right now.

“I always set really high standards for myself and I’m very hard on myself and I’m still working on that,” she said.

When she doesn’t meet those standards, LeBlanc admits she feels pressured to abandon whatever game plan she’s following at the time.

“Whenever I have a bad week or if I didn’t play the way I wanted that week, I have a lot of doubts in my head about what I’m doing,” she said. “That’s what is affecting me the most — when I start doubting what I’m doing. I’ll start making changes I shouldn’t be making.”

She’s working with her current coach, Diane Lavigne, on all aspects of her game, but mostly on managing pressure in all its forms.

The numbers say LeBlanc is making progress. A graduate of Golf Canada’s national team program, she turned pro in 2011 and earned her LPGA card at Q-School on her first try. Following a severe back injury that stunted her career for a couple of seasons, LeBlanc was demoted to the developmental Symetra Tour in 2015 but with five top-five finishes in 22 starts she earned her way back to the LPGA last year.

After being bothered by a right shoulder injury for the first half of the 2016 season, LeBlanc finished the year making 13 straight cuts (including her best career finish, a T11 at the Marathon Classic) to earn her card for 2017. She enjoyed a fine showing in last year’s CP Women’s Open with a wonderfully consistent run of 69-69-70-69 and a tie for 14th, coincidentally at Priddis Greens.

Of her nearly $300,000 in career earnings, she netted well over half of that last year with $173,443 to finish 81st on the money list.

Then there’s this stat: On March 28, 2016, she was ranked 415th in the world. One day short of a year later, she was 182nd, a climb of 233 spots.

The key, as it turns out, has not only been managing that aforementioned pressure she heaps on her shoulders, but her grip pressure as well. Her climb up performance pecking orders has been in lockstep with a major improvement in her putting.

“The thing that has helped the most for my putting was the simplest thing ever, just grip pressure,” she said. “The one thing I changed in my grip was the pressure I apply on the grip with certain fingers. That made all the difference in the world and it makes my stroke so much more consistent every week.”

Specifically, she’s been focused on loosening the last three fingers of her right hand. “It takes the fingers out of the stroke and makes the face much more square,” she explained.

In 2013, LeBlanc ranked 109th on the LPGA Tour with an average of 30.56 putts per round. She improved to 75th last year (29.97) and is up to 59th at press time this year, having shaved another third of a putt off her average to 29.60.

“A light bulb came on and since then it’s been really good,” she said of her improved stroke.

It’s been such a revelation that LeBlanc has expanded the grip pressure change to her full swing too.

“Keeping a light grip, very light grip pressure and trying to relax my arms through the swing, take any tension out of the swing. That’s what I’ve been trying to work on the most. It’s really harder than it sounds on the full swing, for me, anyway,” she explained.

“I feel like things are coming together if I can trust things on the course and just get out of my own way, pretty much.

“All these little things and trying to keep it simple on the course and trying not to put too much pressure on myself which is probably the hardest thing to do.”

As it turns out, a lighter touch is what LeBlanc has always needed, in more ways than one.

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Saskatoon’s Anna Young fired an even par 72 in the final round of Stage I of LPGA Tour Qualifying School to finish tied for 70th at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif., and advance to Stage II.

Young finished the four day qualifying tournament at 2 over par (70-73-75-72). She is lone Canadian of the ten who started the week vying for their LPGA Tour card to advance to Stage II of Qualifying school.

This season on the Symetra Tour Young has made three starts. Her best result was a T41 finish at the Fucillo Classic of NY.

The second stage of LPGA Qualifying School will take place at Plantation Golf & Country Club in Venice, Fla., from Oct. 16-22.

The Final Stage of LPGA Qualifying School is Nov. 27 – Dec. 3 at LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Fla. The top 20 finishers at Final Stage of LPGA Qualifying School earn LPGA Tour membership.

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Ten Canadians will be among the record 362 participants vying for their LPGA Tour card when the first stage of LPGA Tour Qualifying School takes place at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif., from Aug. 24-27.

The format is 72-holes of stroke play with a cut after 54 holes. The Top-90 and ties from the week will advancing to the second stage of LPGA Qualifying at Plantation Golf & Country Club in Venice, Fla., from Oct. 16-22.

Canadians in the field

• Caroline Ciot, Brossard, Que.
• Selena Costabile, Thornhill, Ont.
• Josee Doyon, St-Georges, Que.
• Krista Fenniak, Fort McMurray, Alta.
• Karyn Lee Ping (a), Brampton, Ont.
• Muriel Mcintyre, Penticton, B.C.
• Jamie Oleksiew, Surrey, B.C.
• Sabrina Sapone, Montreal, Que.
• Vivian Tsui, Markham, Ont.
• Anna Young, Saskatoon, Sask.

The Final Stage of LPGA Qualifying School is Nov. 27 – Dec. 3 at LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Fla. The top 20 finishers at Final Stage of LPGA Qualifying School earn LPGA Tour membership.

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