On this Getty Photos picture, Joo Soo-bin of Korea performs her shot from the fifth tee in the course of the first spherical of The ANNIKA pushed by Gainbridge at Pelican 2025 at Pelican Golf Membership in Belleair, Florida, Nov. 13. AFP-Yonhap
Three Korean golfers have earned their LPGA membership for the 2026 season by way of the annual qualifying match, with two returning to the highest ladies’s golf circuit and one set for her debut.
Joo Soo-bin completed solo second as the highest Korean on the LPGA Q-Collection at Magnolia Grove in Cell, Alabama, on Tuesday (native time), with the ultimate stage having been minimize from 90 holes to 72 holes as a result of inclement climate circumstances over the previous a number of days.
With the highest 25 and ties incomes their LPGA playing cards, Joo, 21, secured her return to the tour with loads of room to spare, after ending at 12-under 274. She began out 73-71 and completed with 64-66, going bogey-free within the ultimate spherical.
Joo, 21, first joined the LPGA Tour in 2023. She has but to win there, with a sixth-place end on the 2023 ShopRite LPGA Traditional remaining her career-best efficiency.
Juniper Jang and Lee Dong-eun tied for seventh to affix Joo on the LPGA Tour. Jang shot a 67 within the ultimate spherical whereas Lee carded a 72, as they completed at 10-under 276.
Jang, 22, has made 44 begins on the LPGA Tour since 2023 and has three profession top-10s with no victory.
Lee, 21, has been on the Korea LPGA (KLPGA) Tour since turning professional in Might 2023. She claimed a serious title, the Korea Ladies’s Open Golf Championship, as her maiden KLPGA title, in June this yr.
With eight gamers tying for twenty fourth, the minimize line was five-under.
Amongst Korean gamers, Bang Shin-sil, a three-time KLPGA winner, got here the closest after ending at two-under. Lee Jeong-eun, the 2019 LPGA Rookie of the 12 months, was tied for nineteenth place at four-under however completed in a tie for forty fifth after carding a 76 — her worst spherical on the ultimate stage.
