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The 27 Greatest LPGA Golfers of All Time

By YPB Team

From Annika Sorenstam's record-breaking 93 LPGA wins to modern stars like Nelly Korda, the LPGA Tour has produced some of the greatest golfers in sports history. Vote for the best LPGA player of all time.

  1. Mickey Wright — ranked #11
    Mickey Wright
    Considered by many instructors to have had the most technically perfect swing, she won 82 LPGA titles and 13 majors.
    1000pts
  2. Annika Sorenstam — ranked #22
    Annika Sorenstam
    Swedish legend who won 72 LPGA Tour events and 10 major championships, dominating women's golf from the mid-1990s to 2008.
    797pts
  3. Inbee Park — ranked #33
    Inbee Park
    South Korean great with seven major championships and an Olympic gold medal at the 2016 Rio Games.
    759pts
  4. Juli Inkster — ranked #44
    Juli Inkster
    Won 31 LPGA events and seven majors, completing the career Grand Slam in 1999, and later captained the United States Solheim Cup team.
    690pts
  5. Judy Rankin — ranked #55
    Judy Rankin
    Won 26 LPGA events and in 1976 became the first player to earn more than $100,000 in a season, later becoming a leading golf broadcaster.
    690pts
  6. Patty Sheehan — ranked #66
    Patty Sheehan
    Won 35 LPGA events and six majors, including two U.S. Women's Opens, and entered the LPGA Hall of Fame in 1993.
    647pts
  7. Beth Daniel — ranked #77
    Beth Daniel
    Won 33 LPGA events, including the 1990 LPGA Championship, and was named the tour's Player of the Year in 1980, 1990 and 1994.
    597pts
  8. Kathy Whitworth — ranked #88
    Kathy Whitworth
    American icon holding the all-time record of 88 LPGA Tour victories across an extraordinary career spanning four decades.
    542pts
  9. Betsy Rawls — ranked #99
    Betsy Rawls
    Won 55 LPGA events and eight majors, including four U.S. Women's Opens, before becoming a respected tournament director and rules official.
    542pts
  10. Cristie Kerr — ranked #1010
    Cristie Kerr
    Won 20 LPGA events and two majors, including the 2010 LPGA Championship by a record 12 strokes, and reached world number one.
    478pts
  11. Lorena Ochoa — ranked #1111
    Lorena Ochoa
    Mexican trailblazer who was world number one for 158 consecutive weeks, winning 27 LPGA titles before retiring at 28.
    404pts
  12. Laura Davies — ranked #1212
    Laura Davies
    England's greatest woman golfer won 20 LPGA events and four majors and topped the tour's money list in 1994.
    404pts
  13. Nelly Korda — ranked #1313
    Nelly Korda
    American star who won Olympic gold in Tokyo and two majors, and dominated 2024 with seven LPGA titles.
    404pts
  14. Louise Suggs — ranked #1414
    Louise Suggs
    An LPGA founder who won 61 tour events and 11 majors; the tour's Rookie of the Year award now carries her name.
    404pts
  15. Lydia Ko — ranked #1515
    Lydia Ko
    New Zealand star who became the youngest world number one ever and won Olympic silver, bronze and gold, the last in Paris 2024.
    404pts
  16. Stacy Lewis — ranked #1616
    Stacy Lewis
    Became the first American to reach world number one in the Rolex rankings, winning 13 LPGA titles and two majors.
    404pts
  17. Se Ri Pak — ranked #1717
    Se Ri Pak
    Her 1998 U.S. Women's Open playoff win inspired a generation of Korean golfers, and she went on to 25 LPGA titles and five majors.
    404pts
  18. Nancy Lopez — ranked #1818
    Nancy Lopez
    Burst onto the tour in 1978 with five straight victories and went on to win 48 LPGA titles, including three LPGA Championships.
    319pts
  19. Lexi Thompson — ranked #1919
    Lexi Thompson
    Won her first LPGA event at 16 and the 2014 Kraft Nabisco Championship at 19, collecting 11 tour titles in all.
    319pts
  20. Jeeno Thitikul — ranked #2020
    Jeeno Thitikul
    The Thai star was LPGA Rookie of the Year in 2022, rose to world number one and won the 2024 CME Group Tour Championship.
    319pts
  21. Karrie Webb — ranked #2121
    Karrie Webb
    The Australian won 41 LPGA events and seven majors, completing a super career Grand Slam at the 2002 Women's British Open.
    217pts
  22. Ariya Jutanugarn — ranked #2222
    Ariya Jutanugarn
    In 2016 she became the first Thai player to win an LPGA event and a major, and she was Player of the Year in 2016 and 2018.
    217pts
  23. Ko Jin-young — ranked #2323
    Ko Jin-young
    The South Korean spent more than 150 weeks as world number one and won two majors in 2019, the year she was Player of the Year.
    217pts
  24. Patty Berg — ranked #2424
    Patty Berg
    A founding member and the first president of the LPGA, she won 60 tour events and holds the record of 15 major championships.
    0pts
  25. Yani Tseng — ranked #2525
    Yani Tseng
    The Taiwanese star became the youngest golfer to win five majors and spent 109 weeks as world number one from 2011.
    0pts
  26. Babe Didrikson Zaharias — ranked #2626
    Babe Didrikson Zaharias
    The Olympic champion turned golfer co-founded the LPGA, won 41 tour events and 10 majors, including the 1954 U.S. Women's Open after cancer surgery.
    0pts
  27. Carol Mann — ranked #2727
    Carol Mann
    Won 38 LPGA events, including the 1965 U.S. Women's Open, took ten titles in 1968 alone and later served as LPGA president.
    0pts

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