By: Max Bechtoldt
With the CME Globe Standings for 2024 reaching its home stretch, lets take a look at five LPGA Tour stars who need to do a little work to ensure their place in the top 60 and make it to the CME Globe Championship in Naples.
Minjee Lee
It has been somewhat heavily publicized that, this has not been one of the stronger seasons for Minjee Lee’s career. The 10-time winner, two-time major champion ranks No. 54 in the season-long standings, with just three top-10 finishes and only one top five in 15 events.
Hyo Joo Kim
After a promising start to the season, it has all seemed to go downhill for Kim after her final round collapse at the Ford Championship in March. Since then, her best finish was a pair of T12s at majors. While she has been her typical, very consistent self, the high results just are not there, landing her at No. 59 currently.
Bailey Tardy
You would think a win on the season would be enough to almost guarantee a spot in the top 60, but that isn’t the case for Tardy. She won her first career event at the Blue Bay LPGA back in the first week of March, and has made just two cuts since. Her best finish outside of her win was a T34 at the Mizuho Americas Open. Remarkably, that lone win is still keeping her alive, as she sits at No. 63 in the points.
Georgia Hall
There’s no two ways about it, the Georgia Hall that we have seen in 2024 is not the one we have been used to seeing. While she still makes cuts at a high rate, with 14 out of 17 made, she just isn’t finishing high on the weekends. Hall’s lone top 10 of the season was at the Dow Championship with Charley Hull. Other than that week, Hall just hasn’t been overly competitive. Hall ranks No. 69 in the CME Standings and has played stronger in the second half, so she will continue to try to keep that momentum going.
Anna Nordqvist
Nordqvist was such a strong and steadying force for the European Team at the Solheim Cup, that it is easy to forget that her 2024 season has not been strong. Norqvist has missed a third of her cuts on the year and hasn’t finished in the top 10 once. She did have a top 20 finish just last week in Cincinnati, and she needs more as she currently sits at 72 in the standings.
