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For the second straight week, a serious championship held not simply the promise of etching gamers’ names within the historical past books, but additionally a final ditch effort for professionals to e-book their journey to the Olympics. First got here the lads, at Pinehurst, the place Bryson DeChambeau’s win was close-but-not-enough to hitch Crew USA. Second got here the ladies, at Sahalee, the place Amy Yang’s career-defining win launched her into the Olympics area.
Yang leap-frogged from outdoors the qualification line to the highest qualifying Korean, becoming a member of Jin Younger Ko and Hyo-Joo Kim within the pursuit of gold in Paris later this summer season. It additionally booked Korea as the one non-American nation to host three gamers within the area.
Crew USA is led by Nelly Korda, in fact, together with her six wins this 12 months on the LPGA Tour. Korda shall be joined by the No. 2 participant on the planet, Lilia Vu, who almost received the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Sunday. Rose Zhang was all the time going to be on this staff as properly, rating ninth on the planet. However the People had been on the verge of getting a most 4 gamers to France if Ally Ewing had simply completed two strokes larger final weekend.
Ewing made a valiant effort by capturing 71 Sunday, however completed with a 37 on the again 9. Had been that quantity a 35, she would have vaulted from T5 into solo second and cruised into the highest 15 on the planet. A most of 4 gamers from every nation could make the Olympics, as long as they’re ranked within the prime 15. Ewing’s final-nine 37 was sufficient to push her to sixteenth on the planet, mere fractions of some extent from donning the crimson, white and blue. (She is going to little doubt have one other likelihood to do this later this summer season on the Solheim Cup.)
Korda will look to defend her Gold medal from the 2020 Video games, performed in 2021, whereas Lydia Ko will look to be on the rostrum for the third time. Ko took house the Silver in 2016, in Rio, after which Bronze in 2020, in Japan. Lacking from the 2024 Video games shall be Mone Inami, who received Silver in her house nation of Japan, falling in need of Korda by only a single stroke. You’ll find your entire checklist of Olympians beneath.
1. Nelly Korda, United States
2. Lilia Vu, United States
3. Jin Younger Ko, Korea
4. Ruoning Yin, China
5. Amy Yan, Korea
6. Celine Boutier, France
7. Hannah Inexperienced, Australia
8. Charley Hull, Nice Britain
9. Rose Zhang, United States
10. Yuka Saso, Japan
11. Minjee Lee, Australia
12. Atthaya Thitikul, Thailand
13. Hyo-Joo Kim, Korea
14. Brooke Henderson, Canada
15. Xiyu Lin, China
16. Lydia Ko, New Zealand
17. Miyu Yamashita
18. Maja Stark, Sweden
19. Patty Tavatanakit, Thailand
20. Linn Grant, Sweden
21. Carlota Ciganda, Spain
22. Leona Maguire, Eire
23. Georgia Corridor, Nice Britain
24. Ashleigh Buhai, South Africa
25. Aditi Ashok, India
26. Gaby Lopez, Mexico
27. Esther Henseleit, Germany
28. Alexandra Forsterling, Germany
29. Albane Valenzuela, Switzerland
30. Perrine Delacour, France
31. Emily Kristine Pedersen, Denmark
32. Peiyun Chien, Chinese language Taipei
33. Nanna Koerstz Madsen, Denmark
34. Anne Van Dam, Netherlands
35. Azahara Munoz, Spain
36. Bianca Pagdanganan, Philippines
37. Morgane Metraux, Switzerland
38. Stephanie Meadow, Eire
39. Manon De Roey, Belgium
40. Wei-Ling Hsu, Chinese language Taipei
41. Diksha Dagar, India
42. Emma Spitz, Austria
43. Shannon Tan, Singapore
44. Maria Fassi, Mexico
45. Celine Borge, Norway
46. Klara Davidson Spilkova, Czech Republic
47. Paula Reto, South Africa
48. Mariajo Uribe, Colombia
49. Alessandra Fanali, Italy
50. Ashley Lau, Malaysia
51. Ursula Wikstrom, Finland
52. Ana Bela, Slovenia
53. Sara Kouskova, Czech Republic
54. Alena Sharp, Canada
55. Momoka Kobori, New Zealand
56. Dottie Ardina, Philippines
57. Noora Komulainen, Finland
58. Dewi Weber, Netherlands
59. Madelene Stavnar, Norway
60. Ines Lakalech, Morocco