LPGA statistics show an internationally distributed professional tour with rising prize money, closely contested scoring, and a broad development pipeline. The 2024 season also sits within a larger U.S. participation picture: recreational golf measures describe millions of women and girls, but those estimates are not LPGA membership counts.
Key LPGA Statistics
The most useful headline figures span elite competition, awards, development and participation:
- In the 2024 season, active LPGA Tour players represented 33 countries.
- In the 2024 season, 26 LPGA Tour rookies represented 12 countries.
- In 2024, LPGA players competed for more than $125 million in prize money on the Tour.
- The 2024 CME Group Tour Championship had an $11 million purse and a $4 million winner’s check.
- The 2024 LPGA season summary recorded 31 tournaments and 20 different winners.
- Nelly Korda led the 2024 season with 6 LPGA Tour wins.
- In 2024, Ayaka Furue recorded a 69.988 scoring average to win the Vare Trophy.
- Ayaka Furue led the 2024 LPGA statistics list with 237 birdies.
- Haeran Ryu led 2024 greens in regulation with 75.2%.
- Polly Mack led 2024 average driving distance at 279.314 yards per drive.
- Linnea Strom shot 60 strokes for 18 holes at the 2024 ShopRite LPGA Classic.
- The 2024 U.S. Women’s Open offered a $12 million purse.
- Amy Yang won her first major in her 75th major-championship start.
- Nelly Korda won 2024 Rolex Player of the Year with 214 points.
- Mao Saigo won 2024 Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year with 433 points.
- The NGF counted 28.1 million Americans who played golf on a course in 2024.
- Women and girls made up 28% of U.S. on-course golfers in 2024.
- The female U.S. golfer population reached nearly 7.9 million in 2024.
Contents
- LPGA tour scale, players and prize money
- 2024 LPGA winners, countries and competitive concentration
- LPGA scoring, birdies and performance records
- LPGA major championship statistics and milestones
- LPGA awards and standings data
- LPGA development pathway and women’s golf participation
LPGA Tour Scale, Players and Prize Money
The 2024 LPGA Tour combined international representation with a substantial competition economy. Active Tour players represented 33 different countries, while 26 rookies represented 12 countries; the rookie label follows the LPGA’s own season classification. 2024 LPGA Tour Storylines and Statistics
| 2024 Tour measure | Reported result | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Active players’ represented countries | 33 | LPGA Tour |
| Rookies | 26 | LPGA Tour |
| Rookies’ represented countries | 12 | LPGA Tour |
| Total prize money | More than $125 million | 2024 season |
The 2024 prize-money figure was approximately $48 million higher than the 2019 total of $70 million. The comparison is approximate, and the current figure is explicitly open-ended because the report says “more than” $125 million.
The Race to the CME Globe sent the top 60 players after the regular season to the CME Group Tour Championship. That season-ending event offered an $11 million purse, including a $4 million winner’s check, while the Aon Risk Reward Challenge paid $1 million to its regular-season leader.
The mixed Grant Thornton Invitational illustrates another part of the professional golf ecosystem: its 2024 field had 32 players, split between 16 LPGA Tour and 16 PGA TOUR professionals. The combined purse was $4 million, allocated as $2 million for each Tour; it was a mixed-team event rather than a standard LPGA individual tournament. 2024 LPGA Tour Storylines and Statistics
2024 LPGA Winners, Countries and Competitive Concentration
The LPGA’s 2024 season summary recorded 31 official Tour tournaments and 20 different winners. The distribution combines repeat winners with a substantial group of one-time winners in that summary.
| Player or country | 2024 result | Measurement scope |
|---|---|---|
| Nelly Korda | 6 wins | LPGA season summary |
| Hannah Green, Lydia Ko, Ruoning Yin | 3 wins each | LPGA season summary |
| Lauren Coughlin | 2 wins | LPGA season summary |
| Fifteen players | 1 win each | Counted from listed 20-player distribution |
By winner country, the United States led with 11 victories and Thailand had 5. Australia, Japan, New Zealand, the People’s Republic of China, and the Republic of Korea each had 3 wins, while Sweden had 1; these country labels and groupings follow the LPGA report.
The average age of the 2024 winners was 25.563 years. Chanettee Wannasaen was the youngest winner at 20 years, 3 months and 5 days, while Amy Yang was the oldest at 34 years, 10 months and 26 days.
These ages describe tournament winners, not all Tour members. 2024 LPGA Tour Storylines and Statistics
LPGA Scoring, Birdies and Performance Records
The 2024 scoring race was extremely close at the top. Ayaka Furue won the Vare Trophy with a 69.988 scoring average, while Haeran Ryu’s displayed average was 70.000, less than 0.1 strokes higher; Vare Trophy eligibility includes the LPGA’s minimum-round requirement.
| 2024 performance measure | Leader or result | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Scoring average | Ayaka Furue: 69.988 | Strokes per round |
| Birdies | Ayaka Furue: 237 | Birdies |
| Eagles | Alison Lee: 8 | Eagles |
| Greens in regulation | Haeran Ryu: 75.2% | Percent |
| Average driving distance | Polly Mack: 279.314 | Yards per drive |
Thirteen players recorded one hole-in-one in the 2024 statistical-leader summary. The report presents this as a tie among 13 players at one each, rather than as a single leader.
Linnea Strom shot a raw score of 60 for 18 holes at the 2024 ShopRite LPGA Classic. The report said it was the seventh raw score of 60 or better in LPGA Tour history at the time; that historical count can change with later rounds, and raw score is distinct from score relative to par.
Rose Zhang’s 2024 Cognizant Founders Cup win included a 72-hole score of 264 at Upper Montclair Country Club, which was also the event course’s 72-hole scoring record. Zhang additionally set a 54-hole scoring record of 198 there. 2024 LPGA Tour Storylines and Statistics
LPGA Major Championship Statistics and Milestones
The 2024 majors combined large purses with distinct winning outcomes and historical milestones. The purse figures below are tournament purses, not necessarily individual winner earnings.
| Major | 2024 purse | Winner’s reported result |
|---|---|---|
| Chevron Championship | $7.9 million | Nelly Korda, 13 under par |
| U.S. Women’s Open | $12 million | Yuka Saso, 4 under par |
| KPMG Women’s PGA Championship | $10.4 million | Amy Yang’s first major |
| Amundi Evian Championship | $8 million | Ayaka Furue’s victory |
Nelly Korda won the 2024 Chevron Championship at 13 under par in The Woodlands, Texas. Yuka Saso won the U.S. Women’s Open in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, at 4 under par and became the 16th player to win at least two U.S. Women’s Open titles.
Amy Yang won her first major at the 2024 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship in Sammamish, Washington, in her 75th major-championship start. At the 2024 Amundi Evian Championship in Evian-les-Bains, France, Ayaka Furue’s victory was the season’s 13th different LPGA Tour winner and Japan’s second at that point in the season. 2024 LPGA Tour Storylines and Statistics
LPGA Awards and Standings Data
LPGA award points measure specific competitions and should not be treated as prize money, FedEx-style money, or world-ranking points. The 2024 standings show both a leading Player of the Year total and separate rookie and major-performance measures.
| Award or standings list | Leader | Points or score |
|---|---|---|
| Rolex Player of the Year | Nelly Korda | 214 points |
| Rolex Player of the Year, second | Ayaka Furue | 115 points |
| Rolex Player of the Year, third | Hannah Green | 72 points |
| Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year | Mao Saigo | 433 points |
| Rookie standings, second | Gabriela Ruffels | 417 points |
| Rookie standings, third | Jin Hee Im | 393 points |
| Rolex Annika Major Award | Ayaka Furue | 70 points |
| Aon Risk Reward Challenge | Natthakritta Vongtaveelap | -1.000 score |
Mao Saigo won the rookie award with 433 points, ahead of Gabriela Ruffels at 417 and Jin Hee Im at 393. Ayaka Furue led the Rolex Annika Major Award standings with 70 points across all five majors, while Natthakritta Vongtaveelap led the Aon Risk Reward Challenge with a -1.000 score, a specialized challenge metric rather than a scoring average. 2024 LPGA Tour Storylines and Statistics
LPGA Development Pathway and Women’s Golf Participation
The Epson Tour provides a development context distinct from LPGA Tour results. Seven of eight 2024 Epson Tour champions earned their first professional wins that season, and five of the eight LPGA Tour winners highlighted in the Epson pathway report had previously won their first professional event on the Epson Tour.
Two reported Epson Tour results show the scale of winning margins in that pathway:
- Juliana Hung won the 2024 IOA Championship at 21 under par and by 9 shots in the 54-hole event.
- Fiona Xu won the 2024 Copper Rock Championship at 22 under par and by 7 shots.
The broader U.S. participation figures come from National Golf Foundation surveys and are not LPGA membership counts. The NGF counted 28.1 million Americans who played golf on a course in calendar year 2024; women and girls made up 28% of U.S. on-course golfers, and the female U.S. golfer population reached nearly 7.9 million.
Women and girls accounted for approximately 60% of the net gain in U.S. green-grass golfers since 2019. Female representation among U.S. on-course golfers rose from 20% in 2012 to 28% in 2024, while girls represented 38% of U.S. junior golfers in the 2024 participation context cited by the LPGA. Golf Participation: Growing & Diversifying
The NGF also reported that women and girls playing golf on a course increased 23% from 2018 to 2023. For calendar year 2023, it counted 12.1 million on-course-only participants, 18.5 million off-course-only participants and 14.5 million participants who engaged both on and off course; these segments describe golf engagement and should not be summed with other years without checking definitions. Golf Participation Update — Bigger, Younger and Cooler
Females comprised 43% of the more than 19 million U.S. off-course-only participants in the latest NGF off-course estimate. That population includes entertainment venues, simulators or similar engagement and is not the same as the on-course LPGA audience. Golf Participation: Growing & Diversifying
The LPGA Tour figures describe elite professional competition, whereas NGF figures describe U.S. recreational participation. Female and People of Color categories may overlap, and the historical milestones in the 2024 LPGA report are frozen as stated and may change when later seasons create new records.