2022 Dana Open field expected to be one of deepest in event history
The dedication list for the LPGA’s Dana Open presented by way of Marathon is growing in stature.
And it become already shaping as much as be one of the private fields inside the occasion’s 38-12 months history.
The event has received entries from 8 of the pinnacle 10 gamers in the Rolex world ranking, and 13 of the pinnacle 20. Forty-one of the pinnacle 50 players at the money listing will be at Highland Meadows on Labor Day weekend.
“We are without a doubt pleased with the field we’ve got committed up to now,” tournament director Judd Silverman stated. “We nonetheless have a month to go. To have eight of the pinnacle 10 on the money list is thrilling. We’re overjoyed that we’ve got winners this 12 months that consist of Minjee Lee, Brooke Henderson, Jennifer Kupcho, and Marina Alex. And it’s continually remarkable to have Lexi Thompson and Lydia Ko inside the discipline.”
Lee, Henderson, Kupcho, Thompson, Ko, Hye-Jin Choi, Atthaya Thitikul, Mina Harigae, Hyo Joo Kim, defending champion Nasa Hataoka, Leona Maguire, Hannah Green, Xiyu Lin, Sei Young Kim, and Sophia Schubert — all ranked within the top 20 of the cash list — are scheduled to be in Sylvania.
The handiest gamers ranked inside the top 10 of the arena ranking that aren’t presently devoted are World No. 1 Jin Young Ko and 1/3-ranked Nelly Korda. In Gee Chun, In Bee Park, and Jessica Korda are the lone holdouts from 10 to fifteen. Chun is the best 2022 major champion who isn’t entered. (The women’s British Open is next week.)
Players have until the Tuesday before the match to commit.
“Jin Young Ko has in no way performed in Toledo,” Silverman stated. “She is so gifted. It could be terrific to have her in the area. If we ought to get Jin Young and Nelly’s commitments there’s no doubt this will be the strongest discipline we’ve ever had.”
The Korda sisters are the only individuals of the 2021 United States Solheim Cup group that aren’t within the area. Two assistant captains may be playing — Angela Stanford and Toledo-born Stacy Lewis, who will captain the Americans in Spain in 2023. Two-time Solheim Cup captain and Hall of Famer Juli Inkster will make her first appearance at Highland Meadows given that 2009.
Celine Boutier is the lone European member from closing year’s successful Solheim Cup crew at Inverness Club who hasn’t committed.
The Labor Day weekend date, a removal from the tournament’s typical placement in July, has confirmed to be a boon for the Dana Open. The LPGA Tour is in Europe from July 21 through August 14, accompanied through a week off and then a three-week stretch in Ottawa, Ont., Sylvania, and Cincinnati.
“Where we are at the agenda is a actual advantage,” Silverman said. “The players visit Europe, then they have got a week off. Some players can have two weeks off in the event that they don’t play the fourth event in Ireland. So that’s a absolutely excellent relaxation. Then it is going Canada, Toledo, Cincinnati. It’s 3 top notch occasions in a row with clean travel. I think that’s genuinely supporting us, along with our records.”
The Dana Open — first performed as the Jamie Farr Toledo Classic in 1984 — is the second one-longest-jogging non-principal championship on the LPGA Tour, behind the Portland Classic, which dates to 1972.
The occasion changed into bolstered in 2012 when Marathon Petroleum committed $1 million according to year and have become the name sponsor. This is the first year Dana and Marathon have flipped roles, with Dana because the title sponsor and Marathon because the presenting sponsor.
Tournament rounds can be performed Sept. 1 to four for a purse of $1.Seventy five million. Golf Channel will air eleven hours of live insurance.
“This is one of the longest-walking and most popular tournaments at the LPGA Tour,” Dana chairman and CEO Jim Kamsickas stated, “and we’re extraordinarily proud to have the Dana name as a name sponsor of one of the LPGA’s foremost championships.”