Top 100 All Time LPGA Players - Ai Miyazato, Pettersen & Others

An additional 14 players have reached the 10 tournament minimum for my rating system. Five of those players (Sandra Gal, Chella Choi, Eun-Hee Ji, Gwladys Nocera, and Mariajo Uribe) do not have the minimum 100 tournaments to be rated. In-Kyung Kim has gone over the 100 tournament mark and and shows to be rated in the Top 100 at #93. Jee Young Lee has not played well this year and has now dropped out of the Top 100 and will have to play much better the rest of the year to get back in the Top 100. Brittany Lincicome is now in the #100 spot but already had the minimum 10 tournaments.

Suzann Pettersen reached the 10 tournament minimum and has gone over the 150 tournament mark so her rating no longer has the built-in penalty for too few tournaments. Pettersen has moved from #41 into the #38 spot. Pat Hurst and Catriona Matthew now have 17 rated years. Pat Hurst is #53 and Matthew has moved from #68 up to #58. Lindsay Wright now has 7 years and is not in the Top100. Katie Futcher now has 6 years but is not in the Top 100. Meena Lee now has 7 years and is at the #106 spot in the list. If she continues to play well she could move into the Top 100 by the end of the Year, but I would not bet on it.

Ai Miyazato won in her tenth tournament of the year and has moved from #81 to #73 in the Top 100. Morgan Pressel is ranked at #72, just ahead of Miyazato. Ai Miyazato has won 7 times without a major and Pressel has won 2 times with 1 major. There are two reasons why Pressel is currently ranked above Ai Miyazato. The biggest reason is that Pressel has played 133 tournament and Ai has played just 122 tournaments. The penalty for too few tournaments is greater for Ai than for Pressel. The second reason has to do with consistancy of play. Pressel has made 89.5 percent of the cuts in her tournaments and Ai has only made 84.4 percent of the cuts in her tournaments. If Ai had made the cut in 2 more tournaments she would currently rate above Pressel. With my cloudy crystal ball I don't do predictions. However, if I extrapolate the data to when both players reach the 150 tournaments played mark late next year, Ai Miyazato will be in the Top 50 and Morgan Pressel will not be. Bottom line is that Ai Miyazato is playing at a higher level than Morgan Pressel, but has not played as often.