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Lydia Ko shot an 8-under 64 on Sunday in Naples to win the Vare Trophy for lowest stroke average on the LPGA Tour this season.
The Vare Trophy, named for Glenna Collett-Vare, is given to the player with the lowest scoring average for the season. The Louise Suggs Rookie of the Year Award is awarded to the first-year player on the LPGA Tour who scores the highest in a points competition in which points are awarded based on a player's finish in an event.
The victory gave Ko her second career Player of the Year honor and the Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average. Ko earned the largest payout in LPGA history, $2 million, while Maguire won $550,000 and Nordqvist $340,000. Ko also earned three more LPGA Hall of Fame points to give her 25, two shy of the 27 required for admission. [15]
In November 2022, Ko won the CME Group Tour Championship with its $2 million first-place prize, completing the LPGA Tour season with three wins, the LPGA Player of the Year award for the second time in her career, the Vare Trophy for the lowest scoring average, the 2022 leading money winner, [13] and rose to number two in the Women's World Golf ...
Rankin was LPGA Player of the Year twice (1976, 1977) and won the Vare Trophy for the lowest scoring average three times. She retired from full-time competition at age 38 in 1983 due to chronic back problems, [9] and later captained the victorious Solheim Cup teams in 1996 and 1998.
For the 2018 season, Jutanugarn won the LPGA Player of the Year, the LPGA Vare Trophy with a scoring average of 69.415, the Leaders Top 10 competition with 17 top-10 finishes and the LPGA money title at $2,743,949. She also set single-season records in rounds in the 60s (57) and birdies (470).
The following week a strong performance at the season's final event, Park would win her second career Vare Trophy (2012 her first) for the lowest scoring average for the season. The Vare Trophy accomplishment also put Park on the threshold for induction into the LPGA Hall of Fame. The trophy giving her the 27 points required for induction.
She also won the LPGA Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average on the LPGA Tour. [25] Her achievements were recognized outside the sport of golf when Ochoa won the 2006 Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year award and received the National Sports Prize for the second time. [26]