LPGA golfers will compete for a record $131 million in prize money over a 33-event season in 2025, the tour’s 75th anniversary campaign, LPGA officials announced Wednesday.
On the eve of the season-ending Tour Championship in Naples, Florida, next year’s schedule has been revealed, including two new tournaments and two unofficial events.
Total prize money will have jumped $62 million in four years, with next season’s payout increasing by 90% compared to 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 enhance that growth,” LPGA Commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan said.
The LPGA world calendar will start two weeks later than this year and will see competitions in the United States and 11 other countries.
The season-opening LPGA Tournament of Champions in Orlando from Jan. 30 to Feb. 2 will be followed next week by the Founders Cup in Bradenton before the tour heads to Asia in February and March for events in Thailand, Singapore and China.
The LPGA Match Play will take place April 2-6 in Las Vegas before the first women’s major of the year, the Chevron Championship in The Woodlands, Texas.
May will feature two new LPGA events, the Black Desert Championship in Ivins, Utah, May 1-4, and the first LPGA event in Mexico since 2017, the Riviera Maya Open in Cancun, May 22-25.
The second major, the U.S. Women’s Open, will be played May 29-June 1 at Erin Hills, Wisconsin, followed by the Women’s PGA Championship June 19-22 at PGA Frisco in Frisco, Texas.
The last major tournaments of the year will be the Evian Championship in France from July 10 to 13 and the Women’s British Open from July 31 to August 3 at Royal Porthcawl in Wales.
The LPGA returns to North America until a late-season swing in Asia with October events in Shanghai, South Korea and Malaysia and a November stop in Japan before two final events, the Annika on the 13 to November 16 and the Tour Championship at the end of the 2025 season. in Naples from November 20 to 23.
Korean tournaments will include the biennial International Crown team event.
The FM Championship to be held in Boston from August 28-31 will have a purse of $4.1 million, the first event to win $4 million in prize money outside of the majors and the Tour Championship.
A total of nine tournaments will benefit from high purses from 2024.
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