I'll start by thanking everybody who commented.  It pleases me to no end that others take this endeavor as seriously as I do.  All points made were good ones and deserve to be acknowledged.  So I'll give them my best shot but first I have to ask YOU a question.  Nobody had any problems with Mickey Wright being #7?  I spent several days agonizing over whether I could defend not placing her #1, much less leaving her out of the top three.  Oh well.  Note:  When I mention a player's POY awards or Top 5 and Top 10 finishes below, I'm referencing how many times they finished in that position in my yearly retro-rankings.

I said in my preface to the list that I'm measuring the player's career.  More specifically, I'm measuring the breadth of her career as well as the height.  No, my system doesn't favor longevity above all else but it does favor success over a long span to a larger degree than slightly better success over a shorter span.  Had they both played the same number of seasons, Annika Sorenstam would probably have edged out Kathy Whitworth for #1.  They both were POY (in my rankings) eight times and Annika did this against tougher competition.  But Kathy edged her 14-13 in seasonal Top 5 finishes and dominated 21-13 in Top 10s, and her cumulative point total is so far ahead (despite the lesser points awarded for those honors in the seasons she played) that I have no qualms about naming hers as the best career in LPGA history.

Ayako Okamoto is a member of the WORLD Golf Hall of Fame, not of the LPGA Hall of Fame.  Lorena Ochoa hasn't completed her ten-season requirement but I felt like I would be snubbing her unnecessarily if I didn't designate her as a HOFer.

Tatkins gets the Kerr/Kim battle exactly right.  Peanut has finished in my Top 10 seven times while Cristie has only done it five times, the last five in a row.  Over those last five seasons however, Kerr has closed the gap considerably.  If the results of 2008 repeat themselves in 2009, she will pass Kim easily.  BTW TC, Kerr's hot streak over the last five seasons is why she leads Kim in career money, after you factor in the larger purses.

As for the additional players requested - Sherri Steinhauer is #52, Pat Hurst is #58, Susie Berning Maxwell is #62, Christa Johnson is #63 and Rachel Hetherington is #70.  Keep in mind while you are making comparisons that while there might be noticeable gaps between players near the top of the list (like between Suggs-Alcott), down at this level the point-differentials are very slim.  Any tweaks to the method (and I expect to make some) could rearrange these ladies significantly.

Shirley Englehorn rates higher than Creed and Berning primarily because she was my Player of the Year in 1970.  She also was a Top 10 player seven more times during the ‘60s.  Creed made the Top 10 six times during that same era with a third-place finish in 1965 as her best season.  Berning's career topped out with fifth-place finishes in 1969 and 1973 but she only made the Top 10 two other years.

Since I brought up Mickey Wright, I'll explain her ranking now.  Only Whitworth and Sorenstam collected more POYs than Wright's six.  Mickey's 11 Top 5 finishes were only exceeded by four players (the top two plus Sandra Haynie's 14 and Louise Suggs' 12).  Given those facts, how do six players rate better than her?  Wright's ranking is hurt by two factors - her career is shorter than anyone's above her besides arguably Sorenstam, and four of her six POYs came before 1963.  It is entirely possible that I've excessively devalued those early seasons but I'll be honest with you - I originally wanted to penalize those years by 30% instead of the 20% I wound up choosing.  If I restructure this method to use the yearly point totals instead of assigning a set point structure for first place on down, Mickey might improve a little bit.  But the era she competed in coupled with the relatively short period that she was a full-time player conspires to keep her out of the top five.

This is as good a time as any to list all of the players who have won my Player of the Year award.  27 different players have won at least once in the 59 years I have documented.