Greatest of all time LPGA

The US Womens Open is without a doubt the most important tournament for the women to win. But to suggest that because a player did not win the tournament that you can ignore all the tournaments that the player won is totally ludicrous. My list has Annika Sorenstam at 1 and Mickey Wright at 2 with Kathy Whitworth at 3 and Nancy Lopez at 4. Of the LPGA Founders, my rating system shows Louise Suggs to be the highest rated founder. Babe Zaharias had a short LPGA career because of her death from cancer after two surgeries for cancer. She might have been the best player but she did not prove it with her limited career and the length of a players career must be a factor in any meaningfull rating system.

Regarding taktins comment , I am not ignoring Whitworth & Lopez as great players because of their failure to win the Open, I am simply saying they are not the first & third greatest ever.Jones, Hogan, Nicklaus & Woods all won multiple Opens.Sorenstam & Wright won Opens .Samras , Laver & Federer wonU. S. Opens as did
Evert,,Navritilova,&S. Williams.Heck ,Norm Duke Earl Anthony & Walter Ray Williams won Opens.If you want to be in the conversation for the title of “Greatest ever” you need to win the U.S. Open.

and the idea that one has to win one particular tournament in any sport to be considered among the greatest in any of those sports is incredibly ludicrous. There is no one tournament in any sport that is that important. Hound dog has a system for calculating the greatest player. His system discounts the records of the earliest women golfers because there were so few players in the early days of the tour (as it should). I think he discounted too much in his latest version so that Mickey Wright is rated too low. The British Open (golf) and Wimbledon (tennis) are older tournaments and have more tradition that the US Opens and many people outside the US would argue that those tournaments are more important and there is some merit to their argument.

If Whitworth and Lopez are not third and fourth then whom do you argue should be.

I have no problem with Kathy Whitworth as the third greatest of all time. Despite her failure to win the Open,she had decent success (for an immortal) in the other majors,winning 6 times.She was the best player of her era.
    For #4,I’d go with Karrie Webb.She’s won all of the majors,which I consider the seminal accomplishment in professional golf.Her record in the regular tour events is excellent also.

Lopez won every year from 1978 through 1993 (sixteen years) except for 1986 when she only played four tournaments due to pregnancy and childbirth. In the last six years Webb has not won in four of them. One more win in any of those years would have moved Webb to fifth. Webb could get to fourth place if she continues to win, but to date she has not done enough to pass Lopez. My rating system and Hound Dog’s system include more than just wins. It also evaluates how a player does in all tournaments played. You must be new to this site and not read all of the things that go into rating the LPGA players.

Since you are new to this blog, I would suggest that you go to to my Dec 16 fan post titled “LPGA Best Of All Time Ratings- Where Does Your Favorite Rank” to see how my ratings are calculated. I have yearly ratings on over 1000 players and a career rating on 449 players that have each played over 100 tournaments. The green " 2010 All-Time Player Ranking" under the title is a link to an Excel spreadsheet that shows the ratings for the 449 players.

Annika won against an international field of tremendous depth. No one else has ever been close to as dominant.

No disrespect to the Mickey Wrights and Whitworths and Bergs…but they had nowhere near the level of competition. The LPGA was a small group of Americans travelling around together. Even the competition in the USA was limited because most talented women wouldn’t play the tour. They were expected to be moms and not play sports. Times have changed and the competition is infinitely tougher.