Meet the 2016 LPGA Rookie Class
Twenty-nine rookies from 12 countries are ready to tee it up with the champions in the 2016 LPGA season.
It’s hard to imagine a rookie class that can match the 2015 LPGA rookies and their achievements. We won’t soon forget Sei Young Kim’s quite amazing playoff hole at the 2015 LOTTE Championship or Hyo Joo Kim’s equally thrilling 4th round back nine performance at the 2015 Founders Cup.
The rookies didn’t just win those two events. They defeated two of the Tour’s Amazons, Inbee Park at the LOTTE and Stacy Lewis at the Founders Cup.
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Then there was Alison Lee, who delivered such a consistently outstanding performance that she played her way onto the United States Solheim Cup team and held her own in competition against some of the most powerful players in women’s golf.
And let’s not forget Brooke Henderson, whose rookie year was so abbreviated that we barely had time to get used to thinking about her as a rookie, but who held us in her thrall while she played her way onto the Tour with persistent and consistent brilliance.
But then, going into 2015, we were wondering how anyone in the rookie class could ever measure up to Lydia Ko’s record-breaking, breathtaking 2014 rookie year, and we saw Sei Young Kim match Ko’s record.
The 2016 LPGA rookie class of 29 players from 12 countries are bringing a fresh and diverse set of experiences to the Tour’s new season. Which ones will challenge the top of the leaderboard? Let’s take a look.
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