Who Had the Best 2009 in Women's Golf?

by The Constructivist on Dec 13, 2009 8:32 AM EST

I profile 15 nominees over at Mostly Harmless. Here's the list:

Sakura Yokomine (JLPGA stats: 6 wins, 1 major, ￥175.02M in 33 starts, 70.43 scoring average, 3.61 birdies per round).

Shinobu Moromizato (JLPGA stats: 6 wins, 2 majors, ￥165.26M in 34 starts, 71.05 scoring average, 3.22 birdies per round).

Hee Kyung Seo (KLPGA stats: 5 wins, 3 majors, 663.76M won in 18 starts, 70.51 scoring average, 3.86 birdies per round).

Chie Arimura (JLPGA stats: 5 wins, ￥140.80M in 33 starts, 70.75 scoring average, 3.60 birdies per round).

Ji-Yai Shin (LPGA stats: 4 wins, $1.81M in 25 starts, 70.26 scoring average, 3.97 birdies per round; JLPGA stats: 1 win, ￥37.42M in 6 starts, 70.47 scoring average, 3.71 birdies per round).

Mi-Jeong Jeon (JLPGA stats: 4 wins, ￥127.29M in 29 starts, 70.64 scoring average, 3.71 birdies per round).

So Yeon Ryu (KLPGA stats: 4 wins, 597.86M won in 18 starts, 71.02 scoring average, 3.63 birdies per round).

Lorena Ochoa (LPGA stats: 3 wins, $1.49M in 22 starts, 70.16 scoring average, 4.18 birdies per round).

Ai Miyazato (LPGA stats: 1 win, $1.52M in 22 starts, 70.33 scoring average, 3.90 birdies per round; JLPGA stats: 1 win, ￥46.43M in 8 events, 70.70 scoring average, 3.26 birdies per round).

Anna Nordqvist (LPGA stats: 2 wins, $.87M in 17 starts, 70.78 scoring average, 3.48 birdies per round; LET stats: 100.97K euros in 6 starts, 70.87 scoring average, 3.91 birdies per round).

Na Yeon Choi (LPGA stats: 2 wins, $1.34M in 26 starts, 70.51 scoring average, 3.77 birdies per round).

Bo-Bae Song (JLPGA stats: 2 wins, ￥72.92M in 27, 71.27 scoring average, 3.13 birdies per round).

In-Kyung Kim (LPGA stats: 1 win, $1.24M in 25 starts, 71.00 scoring average, 3.92 birdies per round, plus won the LET's Dubai Ladies Masters yesterday).

Marianne Skarpnord (LET stats: 2 wins, 203.35K euros in 17 starts, 71.54 scoring average, 3.26 birdies per round).

Diana Luna (LET stats: 2 wins, 185.91K euros in 17 starts, 71.89 scoring average, 3.20 birdies per round).

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TC, where would you rank each of the major women’s tours in terms of depth? Is the LPGA #1? And do you see that order changing in 2010 because of the lack of events on the LPGA schedule?

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by Ryan Ballengee on Dec 13, 2009 5:00 PM EST reply actions

LPGA still #1 in '10

This season, L:PGA, JLPGA, LET, KLPGA. Probably the same next season.

Even with a handful of LPGAers on the JLPGA next season, it’s still #2 in terms of depth of talent behind the LPGA. But if the ‘11 LPGA schedule isn’t looking better fast, expect more LPGAers to try for dual membership on the JLPGA. As you can see from the Dubai leaderboard, there are plenty of European players with dual LPGA-LET membership, and they continue to dominate the LET’s money list and year-end awards. I know this won’t go over well with my Seoul Sisters.com pals, but it seems to me that those dual-membership players make the LET #3 in depth, although they don’t have any regular as good as Hee Kyung Seo, because their dual members tend to play more events off the LPGA than the Koreans with dual LPGA-KLPGA membership. I might be wrong on this—Kim’s win in Dubai was the 3rd by a Korean in a row on the LET—and the other 2 winners were decidedly mid-tier types on the KLPGA until their surprise wins.

by The Constructivist on Dec 14, 2009 1:23 PM EST reply actions