Coming up at the beginning of June (June 1-4) will be the LPGA Mizuho Americas Open at Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City with a purse of $2.75 million (one of the largest non-major purses) and a limited field of 120 players.
Entries: https://www.lpga.com/tournaments/miz...nament-entries
Brooke and Maude-Aimee are in the field, while Maddie is 19th reserve. If there is a reshuffle before then, Maddie may get into the field.
What makes this tournament interesting is that the AJGA (American Junior Golf Association) is holding a girls invitational at the same time on the same course. Apparently they will play from different tees and in separate groups from the LPGA players on Thursday and Friday and then the LPGA players are cut to 50 and paired with AJGA players (no cut) for the weekend. They have said that they will try to get all the juniors on the telecast at some point.
The AJGA players (including five Canadian girls) will be playing their own invitational tournament using Modified Stableford rules, with players encouraged to pick up after double-bogey.
Double-bogey 0 points
Bogey 1 point
Par 2 points
Birdie 3 points
Eagle 5 points
Double-Eagle 8 points.
Because it allows for pickup after double-bogey, the Junior Golf Scoreboard will not be ranking it, but the AJGA ranking will treat it as an invitational (worth the top amount of points).
The AJGA tournament has includes almost all of the top 24 on the AJGA rankings.
AJGA Tournament field: https://www.ajga.org/tournaments/202...cas-open/field
Top juniors that have recently being playing LPGA events include Anna Davis (2024) and Gianna Clemente (2026).
The field of 24 includes several Canadian juniors:
#7 Vanessa Borovilos of Toronto, ON (2024)
#14 Vanessa Zhang of Vancouver, BC (2024)
#16 Lauren Kim of Surrey, BC (2023)
#22 Michelle Liu of Vancouver, BC (2024)
#24 Luna Lu of Burnaby, BC (2025)
As well, Michelle Liu and Vanessa Borovilos are on Team Canada with Yeji Kwon that recently qualified for the Toyoto Junior Golf World Cup in Japan in the middle of June.
Some articles:
https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.co...ront/golf.aspx
https://www.lpga.com/news/2023/new-l...entary-lodging
https://golf.com/news/mizuho-america...nal-new-event/
Entries: https://www.lpga.com/tournaments/miz...nament-entries
Brooke and Maude-Aimee are in the field, while Maddie is 19th reserve. If there is a reshuffle before then, Maddie may get into the field.
What makes this tournament interesting is that the AJGA (American Junior Golf Association) is holding a girls invitational at the same time on the same course. Apparently they will play from different tees and in separate groups from the LPGA players on Thursday and Friday and then the LPGA players are cut to 50 and paired with AJGA players (no cut) for the weekend. They have said that they will try to get all the juniors on the telecast at some point.
The AJGA players (including five Canadian girls) will be playing their own invitational tournament using Modified Stableford rules, with players encouraged to pick up after double-bogey.
Double-bogey 0 points
Bogey 1 point
Par 2 points
Birdie 3 points
Eagle 5 points
Double-Eagle 8 points.
Because it allows for pickup after double-bogey, the Junior Golf Scoreboard will not be ranking it, but the AJGA ranking will treat it as an invitational (worth the top amount of points).
The AJGA tournament has includes almost all of the top 24 on the AJGA rankings.
AJGA Tournament field: https://www.ajga.org/tournaments/202...cas-open/field
Top juniors that have recently being playing LPGA events include Anna Davis (2024) and Gianna Clemente (2026).
The field of 24 includes several Canadian juniors:
#7 Vanessa Borovilos of Toronto, ON (2024)
#14 Vanessa Zhang of Vancouver, BC (2024)
#16 Lauren Kim of Surrey, BC (2023)
#22 Michelle Liu of Vancouver, BC (2024)
#24 Luna Lu of Burnaby, BC (2025)
As well, Michelle Liu and Vanessa Borovilos are on Team Canada with Yeji Kwon that recently qualified for the Toyoto Junior Golf World Cup in Japan in the middle of June.
Some articles:
https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.co...ront/golf.aspx
https://www.lpga.com/news/2023/new-l...entary-lodging
https://golf.com/news/mizuho-america...nal-new-event/
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