The 2021 CME Group Tour Championship was the 11th
CME Group Tour Championship
The CME Group Tour Championship is a women's professional golf tournament, the season-ending event of the LPGA Tour. It succeeded the LPGA Tour Championship, which was played for two seasons in 2009 and 2010. From 2011 to 2013 the tournament wa ...
, a women's professional golf tournament and the season-ending event on the U.S.-based
LPGA Tour
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. It was played at the Gold Course of
Tiburón Golf Club
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in
Naples, Florida
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. The CME Group Tour Championship marked the end of the season-long "Race to the CME Globe" in
2021
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. The event was televised by
Golf Channel
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Thursday through Saturday on a delay, and
NBC
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Sunday live.
Format
Qualification
Since 2014, the field has determined by a season-long points race, the "Race to the CME Globe". All players making the cut in a tournament earned points, with 500 points going to the winner. The five
major championships had a higher points distribution, with 625 points to the winner. No-cut tournaments only awarded points to the top 40 finishers. Only LPGA members are eligible to earn points. From 2014 to 2018, the top 72 players on the points list and any tournament winners, whether or not a member, earned entry into the championship. The points were reset for the championship and the points leader after the championship won a $1 million bonus. Only the top-12 players entering the tournament has a mathematical chance of winning the bonus.
Since 2019, the top 60 players on the "Race to the CME Globe" points list gained entry into the championship. Tournament winners are no longer given automatic entry into the championship. The bonus is now rolled into the purse so that the winner of the tournament wins $1.5 million. All 60 players compete for the top prize.
Field
Top 60 LPGA members and those tied for 60th on the "Race to the CME Globe" Points Standings
Brittany Altomare
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Pajaree Anannarukarn
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Céline Boutier
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Amateur career
Boutier won several international amateur events including the 2012 European Ladies Amateur Championship and the 2015 British Ladies Amateur. She played co ...
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Matilda Castren
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Career
Castren won the 2011 Do ...
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Chella Choi
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Choi played on the Duramed Futures Tour in 2008 with a best finish of T-2 at the Bright House Networks Open. She earned her 2009 LPGA Tour card at LPGA Final Qu ...
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Chun In-gee
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Carlota Ciganda
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Jenny Coleman
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Austin Ernst
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Amateur career
Ernst was born in Greenville, South Carolina. She played two years for the LSU Tigers, where she won three events including the individua ...
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Ally Ewing
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McDonald was born in Tupelo, Mississippi and grew up in Fulton, Mississippi. She played college golf at Mississippi State Univ ...
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Hannah Green,
Georgia Hall
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...
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Mina Harigae
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As an amateur golfer, she won the 2007 U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links. Harigae won the California Women's Amateur Championship for four ...
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Nasa Hataoka
is a Japanese professional golfer. She has won six times on the LPGA Tour and six times on the LPGA of Japan Tour.
Amateur career
Hataoka was born on 13 January 1999, named after the United States space program, NASA. As an amateur, she won the ...
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Brooke Henderson
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Henderson was named the Canadian Press female athlete of the year for 2015, 2017 and 2018. She won her first major at age 18 in 2016 at the ...
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Esther Henseleit
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Amateur career
Henseleit attended Freie Waldorfschule Oldenburg and played for Golfclub am Meer before switching to Ham ...
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Hsu Wei-ling,
Charley Hull
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Ji Eun-hee
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LPGA career
Ji joined the LPGA To ...
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Ariya Jutanugarn
Ariya Jutanugarn ( th, เอรียา จุฑานุกาล, , ; born 23 November 1995) is a Thai professional golfer who plays on the American-based LPGA Tour. She was born in Bangkok. She is the first golfer, male or female, from Tha ...
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Moriya Jutanugarn
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In 2009, Jutanugarn became the first female to win the Duke of York Young Champions Trophy. In 2013, she was named LPGA ...
,
Danielle Kang
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Megan Khang
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Khang's parents were refugees from the Vietnam War from Laos and came to the Unite ...
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Kim A-lim
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Kim turned professional as a teenager in 2013 and began playing on the KLPGA in 2016. She has two wins on ...
,
Kim Hyo-joo
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Kim Sei-young
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Kim plays on the LPGA of Korea Tour and the LPGA Tour. She has won five times on the LPGA of Korea Tour and twelve times on the LPGA Tour ...
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Ko Jin-young
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Lydia Ko
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Jessica Korda
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Amateur career
Korda was a member of the 2009 U.S. Junior Solheim Cup and the 2010 U.S. Curtis Cup teams. ...
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Nelly Korda
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Jennifer Kupcho
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Amateur career
As a junior at Wake Forest University, she was named the winner of the Honda Sports Award for golf. As a senior, Kupcho won the inaugural Augusta Nation ...
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Lee Jeong-eun,
Minjee Lee,
Stacy Lewis
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Lin Xiyu
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Professional career
Lin turned professional in 2011 and began playing on the Ch ...
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Yu Liu,
Gaby López
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Amateur career
López played college golf at the University of Arkansas where she won three events and was individual runner-up at the 2015 NCAA Division I Champi ...
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Nanna Koerstz Madsen
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Leona Maguire
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She was ranked 1st in the world on the women's World Amateur Golf Ranking from May 2015 until May 2016 and then from August 2016 until February 2018. Maguire's 135 weeks a ...
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Caroline Masson
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Amateur and college career
Born and raised in Gladbeck in North Rhine-Westphalia, Masson had a decorated amateur golf car ...
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Wichanee Meechai
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Early life
Meechai was born on 5 January 1993 in Bangkok, Thailand. Her father, Wanchai, is the ...
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Yealimi Noh
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Amateur career
Born in San Franc ...
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Anna Nordqvist
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Su-Hyun Oh
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Born in Busan, South Korea, Oh moved to Australia at the age of eight and has played go ...
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Amy Olson,
Ryann O'Toole
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Amateur career
O'Toole was born in Agoura Hills, California, and graduated from San Clemente High School in 2005. She pl ...
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Sophia Popov
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Personal life
Popov holds dual United States-German citizenship having been born in the United States, and moved to Germany with her family when she was four years old. Her pat ...
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Ryu So-yeon
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She is a two-time major w ...
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Madelene Sagström
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Early life
At 9, Sagstr ...
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Lizette Salas
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Early life and education
Born and raised in Azusa, California, Salas graduated from Azusa High School in 2007 and went on to play college ...
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Yuka Saso
is a Philippine-born Japanese professional golfer. She competed for the Philippines through 2021, having won the first ever gold medal for the Philippines in both women's individual and women's team event in Asian Games golf competitions. As o ...
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Jenny Shin
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Shin was born in Seoul, South Korea, and moved to the United States aged 9. She won the U.S. Girls' Junior in 2006.
Shin turned professional in 2010. She played on the Fu ...
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Lauren Stephenson
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Amateur career
Stephenson played her college golf at Clemson University (one year) and the University of Alabama (two years).
She also competed at the 2018 Curtis Cup an ...
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Jasmine Suwannapura,
Elizabeth Szokol
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Early life, college and amateur career
Szokol grew up in Winnetka, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. An injury-prone athlete, she experienced her f ...
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Emma Talley
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Patty Tavatanakit
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Lexi Thompson
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Amy Yang
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Amateur career
Yang began playing go ...
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Angel Yin
Angel Yin (born October 3, 1998) is an American professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour.
Amateur career
Yin won the 7–8 year old Junior World Golf Championships, won the California State Women's Amateur as a 12 year old and agai ...
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Shanshan Feng
Shanshan Feng (, ; born 5 August 1989) is a Chinese former professional golfer who previously played on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. She was the first player from China to become a member of the LPGA Tour, which she joined in 2008. Feng had 10 vic ...
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Inbee Park
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Final leaderboard
''Sunday, November 21, 2021''
References
External links
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