Yoon In-na selected by U.S. Golf Week as a rookie to watch LPGA Tour in 2025
Yoon In-na selected by U.S. Golf Week as a rookie to watch LPGA Tour in 2025
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The U.S. Golf Week on the 8th selected six "glamorous rookies" to pay attention to ahead of the opening of the 2025 LPGA Tour, and named Yoon Na as one of them.
The six rookies chosen by Golf Week are Miyu Yamashita (Japan) who ranks 13th, Rio Takeda (Japan) who ranks 17th, Yoon In-na who ranks 19th, and Akie Iwai and Sisato who rank 30th and 48th. Former amateur No. 1 Yingrid Lindblad of Sweden will also make her LPGA debut this year through the Epson Tour (division 2).
Golf Week reported that five of this year's rookie players are currently in the top 50 in the world. The competition for the LPGA Rookie of the Year award will be a slugfest with Lindblad, an amateur star.
The strength of Japanese players is noticeable.
Among rookies, Yamashita (13th), who is ranked the highest in the world, drew the most attention. Yamashita, who was born in 2001, has recorded 13 wins overall in the Japan Ladies Professional Golf Association (JLPGA) and passed the LPGA Tour Qualifying Series (Q Series) last month as the top player. She finished second in the KPMG Women's PGA Championship in the LPGA Tour last year, and ranked in the top 10 four times in nine major LPGA Tour events.
Takeda, who is ranked 17th in the world, won the title at the Toto Japan LPGA Tour Classic in Japan in November last year after a close race that lasted until the sixth playoff. Takeda, who was born in 2003, swept eight wins in the JLPGA Tour last year, winning the top prize and the grand prize. 먹튀검증
Born in 2002, the EYWI sisters ranked fourth in the prize money list as their twin sister Akie won three times last year. Chezito also ranked fifth in the prize money list with three wins.
Lindblad, the former top amateur player, was an amateur powerhouse who won 15 times when she was a student at Louisiana State University. Although she participated in only nine Epson Tour events last season, she won once and was the runner-up twice. She ranked sixth in the Race to the Card, which translates her performance into points for a season, and became the LPGA Tour seed this year.
"She is ranked No. 1 in the Korean Ladies Professional Golf Association (KLPGA) tour, and has been listed in the top five 10 times including one victory during the 2024 season. She was ranked in the top 300 a year ago, but is now in the top 30," Golf Week said.