LPGA offering $131M in prize money over 33 events in 2025

LPGA golfers will compete for a document $131 million in purse cash in 2025, the circuit’s seventy fifth anniversary season, the tour introduced Wednesday.

The LPGA’s 33-event schedule tees off with the Hilton Grand Holidays Match of Champions in Orlando, Florida, from Jan. 30-Feb. 2 and concludes with the CME Group Tour Championship in Naples, Florida, from Nov. 20-23.

The 2025 schedule features a new cease on the Black Desert Championship in Ivins, Utah, from Might 1-4, and a return to Cancun, Mexico, for the Riviera Maya Open three weeks later. Will probably be the primary LPGA event performed in Cancun since 2017.

The LPGA will maintain tournaments in 14 U.S. states and 11 different international locations, together with two multievent Asian swings within the spring and fall and a European swing in the summertime.

“The 2024 season was one other yr of historic development for the LPGA Tour, and with this 2025 schedule we’ll proceed to enhance on that development,” LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan stated in a press release. “This schedule is highlighted by two thrilling new occasions, a brand new multi-year title for the longest-running non-major event on the LPGA Tour, even increased purse sizes, elevated advantages that can improve the athlete expertise, improved geographical circulate and an extended offseason that can give our athletes a well-deserved relaxation after their great work in 2024.”

The document prize cash represents a 90% enhance of greater than $62 million since 2021, the LPGA stated. The tour stated nonmajor tournaments will supply $83 million in prize cash and 16 tournaments could have purses of at the least $3 million, together with 10 nonmajor and non-Tour Championship occasions.

On high of the elevated purses, 24 occasions will supply golfers journey stipends, free lodging and/or assured minimal payouts.

Marcoux Samaan additionally stated the LPGA could have absolutely backed medical insurance for its gamers subsequent yr. Beforehand, they’d an $1,800 stipend in 2021 that grew to $4,000 this yr. Full protection is “one thing we have been engaged on on this group for a extremely very long time, and we’re actually pleased with that,” she stated.

The CME Group Tour Championship could have an $11 million purse, together with $4 million to the winner, the most important single prize within the historical past of girls’s golf.

There can be $47 million at stake within the 5 main championships, which start on the Chevron Championship in The Woodlands, Texas, April 24-27. The U.S. Girls’s Open can be performed at Erin Hills in Wisconsin for the primary time from Might 29-June 1 adopted by a primary cease on the PGA of America headquarters in Frisco, Texas, for the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship from June 19-22.

The Amundi Evian Championship in France is scheduled for July 10-13, and the most important season wraps up three weeks later with the AIG Girls’s Open in Wales.

The Hanwha LIFEPLUS Worldwide Crown, a 32-player, match-play staff occasion, returns after a one-year hiatus. The unofficial occasion can be performed at New Korea Nation Membership in late October. LPGA golfers will even compete with PGA gamers within the Grant Thornton Invitational, one other unofficial occasion, in December.

The Related Press contributed to this report.