LPGA golfers will compete for a record $131-million (R2.3-billion) in prize money over a 33-event season in 2025, the Tour’s 75th anniversary campaign.
On the eve of the season-ending Tour Championship at Naples, Florida, next year’s schedule was unveiled, including two new tournaments and two unofficial events.
Total prize money will have jumped $62-million in four years, next season’s payout jumping 90% from the pandemic-hit 2021 campaign.
“The 2024 season was another year of historic growth for the LPGA Tour, and with this 2025 schedule we will continue to improve on that growth,” LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan said.
The LPGA’s global schedule will begin two weeks later than this year and see competition in the United States and 11 other nations.
The season-opening LPGA Tournament of Champions in Orlando on 30 January – 2 February will be followed the next week by the Founders Cup at Bradenton before the Tour heads for Asia in February and March for events in Thailand, Singapore and China.
The LPGA Match Play will be contested from 2-6 April in Las Vegas ahead of the year’s first women’s Major, the Chevron Championship at The Woodlands, Texas.
May will feature two new LPGA events, the Black Desert Championship in Ivins, Utah on 1-4 May and the first LPGA event in Mexico since 2017, the Riviera Maya Open in Cancun on 22-25 May.
The second Major, the US Women’s Open, will be contested 29 May – 1 June at Erin Hills in Wisconsin followed by the Women’s PGA Championship on 19-22 June at PGA Frisco in Frisco, Texas.
The year’s final Majors will be the Evian Championship in France on 10-13 July and the Women’s British Open on 31 July – 3 August at Royal Porthcawl in Wales.
The LPGA returns to North America until a late-season Asia swing with events in October at Shanghai, South Korea and Malaysia and a November stop in Japan before two final events, the Annika on 13-16 November and the 2025 season-ending Tour Championship in Naples on 20-23 November.
The Korean tournaments will include the biennial International Crown team event.
The FM Championship in Boston on 28-31 August will have a $4.1-million purse, the first event to crack $4-million in prize money outside of the majors and Tour Championship.
In all, nine tournaments will have elevated purses from 2024.
The 2025 LPGA Tour schedule, featuring the largest prize fund in the Tour’s 75-year history of over $131 million!
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