‘Definitely Life-Changing’: LPGA Tour Golfers React Heartwarmingly to $7 Million Purse for Upcoming Event

The season-ending CME Group Tour Championship of the LPGA, starts this weekend, bringing curtains to what has been a remarkable year for women’s golf. If the year-long acclaims weren’t enough, an eye-watering $7 million purse, the largest ever for any non-major tournament, will cap it off. But how are the Tour golfers prepping up for the cash-rich tournament? Let’s find out.

LPGA Pro golfers express their feelings for biggest prize money yet in women’s golf

The weekend at Tiburon Golf Club will hold the record for the largest prize money awarded to the winner of a women’s golf event. The victor on Sunday will be awarded a winner’s check of $2 million alongside the Race to CME Globe trophy.

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But how did Tour golfers react to the life-changing prize money? The official Twitter handle of the LPGA took rounds of golfers as they expressed their amazement.

“To win CME I think it would be super amazing. I mean, definitely life-changing,” 25-year-old Jennifer Kupcho, ranked 11th on the Tour, said. Fellow American Andrea Lee was yet to soak up the increased prize money. “It would be huge for any of us… [we] don’t usually play for that kind of money and as a second major event. So, it’s huge for sixty of us to actually get to compete,” she said.

Similarly, South African pro, Paula Reto, was content with the prize money and revealed that it was an opportunity for her after missing out on a chunk of tournaments in the past few years. Mexican golfer, Gaby Lopez, spoke on how the tournament purse was “life-changing.” “Of course, it could be life-changing for me and my family,” she said. “So, we’ll see what happens.”

How did Lydia Ko and Nelly Korda react to the tournament’s mammoth prize money?

Kiwi LPGA golfer, Lydia Ko, one of the favorites to win the tournament, seemed unbothered by the talk about the prize money. On the other hand, she saw the record-breaking sum as a bonus to the race to the CME Globe trophy. “If you are able to win and be the one holding the trophy at the end of the week, it’s kind of like an extra bonus,” Ko revealed.

But what about World No. 1, Nelly Korda, who won the preceding Pelican Women’s Championship? “I think it’s just a win for women’s sports that we can, or even, showcase on a stage like that and playing for the money we are,” the 24-year-old said.

If it wasn’t obvious at the start, the mood around the circuits is exciting for a breakthrough in women’s golf. The CME Tour Group Tour Championship commences on November 17.

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