South Korea’s So Yeon Ryu, the newly crowned top player in women’s golf, heads an uber-talented field at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship beginning Thursday at storied Olympia Fields Country Club outside Chicago.
It’s the second of the five major championships on the LPGA Tour’s schedule. Ryu won the first — the ANA Inspiration in April — but to keep alive a dream of winning the Tour’s Grand Slam she will have to fend off a sterling field of 155 other golfers that includes all of the top 100 members on the LPGA official money list.
There are 26 major champions who own a combined 53 major titles in the field for this event, which has been competed since 1955 (as the LPGA Championship).