CME Group Tour Championship Winners and History

CME Group Tour Championship Winners and History

The CME Group Tour Championship is the the season-ending tournament of the LPGA Tour. It is the successor to the LPGA Tour Championship, which was played in 2009 and 2010. From 2011 to 2013 the tournament was called the CME Group Titleholders.

With the 2014 creation of the Race to the CME Globe, the LPGA’s  tour championship became the CME Group Tour Championship. It marks the end of the LGPA’s season long, “Race to the CME Globe,” the equivalent of the PGA TOUR’s FedEx Cup Race.

Beginning in 2019, 60 players qualify for the Tour Championship in a season-long points race. At the Tour Championship, the season’s points are reset for a winner-take-all, 72 hole, no-cut competition. The winners’ check is a women’s golf record of $1.5 million ($5 million purse).

In past years, points accumulated during the season were reset before the tournament based on points list positions. “Championship points” were given to the top forty players, which were added to the reset points to determine the overall winner of the “Race to the CME Globe.”

CME Group is a financial securities corporation based in Chicago.

A list of CME Tour Championship Winners follows:

Year	Champion	Score	To par	Margin
2023	Amy Yang	68-63-64-66=261	-27	3 strokes
2022	Lydia Ko	65-66-70-70=271	-17	2 strokes
2021	Ko Jin-young (2)	69-67-66-63=265	-23	1 stroke
2020	Ko Jin-young	68-67-69-66=270	-18	5 strokes
2019	Kim Sei-young	65-67-68-70=270	-18	1 stroke
2018	Lexi Thompon	65-67-68-70=270	-18	4 strokes
2017	Ariya Jutanugarn	68-71-67-67=273	-15	1 stroke
2016	Charley Hull	67-70-66-66=269	-19	2 strokes
2015	Cristie Kerr	68-69-66-68=271	−17	1 stroke
2014	Lydia Ko	71-71-68-68=278	−10	Playoff
2013	Shanshan Feng	66-74-67-66=273	−15	1 stroke
2012	Na Yeon Choi	67-68-69-70=274	−14	2 strokes
2011	Hee Young Park	71-69-69-70=279	−9	2 strokes