Tension is running high in the final weeks of the 2024 LPGA season. That’s especially so for players outside the top 60 in the Race to the CME Group Tour Championship and trying desperately to get inside the magic number in order to qualify for the finale and have a chance at the $4 million first-place prize money payout.

The Champion of Champions gets underway on Monday with most of the world’s best players lining up at the Toughsheet Community Stadium in Bolton. Tournament winners over the last year have booked their places at the prestigious non-ranking event, which Mark Allen won last year as he beat Judd Trump in the final.

A Lim Kim crossed the $1 million mark in earnings this season after her victory at the Lotte Championship in Hawaii. The 29-year-old South Korean earned $450,000 for her two-stroke triumph over Russian rookie Nataliya Guseva.

A Lim Kim had a hole-in-one on the par-3 ninth and birdied the final two holes for a 5-under 67 and one-stroke lead over Nataliya Guseva on Friday in the Lotte Championship.

A Lim Kim won the Lotte Championship on Saturday for her second LPGA Tour title, closing with a 4-under 68 for a two-stroke victory over playing competitor Nataliya Guseva.

The 2024 Lotte Championship final leaderboard is headed by winner A Lim Kim, who topped the LPGA Tour leaderboard this week with a win at Hoakalei Country Club in Ewa Beach, Hawaii. Kim won for the first time in this LPGA Tour season,