Top 100 LPGA Players Of All Time

My rating system now has 458 players rated. The top 100 are listed below. Currently there are 51 players that have 9 wins or more. Six of those players are not ranked in the top 50, but all are in top 100. Most of those players were from the 1950's and early 1960's when there were less players and it was easier to win due to a lot less competition. Currently there are 100 players who have 4 wins or more. There are 13 players with 4 or more wins that are not rated in the top 100. Alice Miller won 8 times with 1 major and is rated #138, because she had 3 years where she played very well and won 7 times, but otherwise her record is very poor. Jiyai Shin also has 8 wins with 1 major and is not currently rated. Jiyai Shin has 5 wins as an LPGA player but only played in 61 tournaments as an LPGA member and should be rated by the end of 2013. Yani Tseng has 12 wins with 5 majors, but only has 94 tournaments as an LPGA member. However Tseng is rated at #45 even with the penalty for not enough tournaments. My equations calculate a rating with less than 100 tournaments, but normally players do not rate very high until they have enough tournaments. Jiyai Shin's rating would not put her in the Top 100. Na Yeon Choi has 5 wins with 97 tournaments played so I included her rating in the list and she is #71. Tseng and NYC will both go over the 100 tournament threshold when they play 10 tournaments this year. Laura Baugh is the highest rated player without a win at #98. Laura Baugh was second 10 times and she had seven (7) children while she was competing on the LPGA.

1) Annika Sorenstam - 2) Mickey Wright - 3) Kathy Whitworth - 4) Nancy Lopez - 5) Pat Bradley - 6) Karrie Webb - 7) Sandra Haynie - 8) JoAnne Carner - 9) Patty Sheehan - 10) Lorena Ochoa

11) Louise Suggs - 12) Beth Daniel - 13) Betsy King - 14) Betsy Rawls - 15) Julie Inkster - 16) Carol Mann - 17) Patty Berg - 18) Amy Alcott - 19) Judy Rankin - 20) Donna Caponi

21) Jane Blalock - 22) Meg Mallon - 23) Dottie Pepper - 24) Se Ri Pak - 25) Sandra Palmer - 26) Ayako Okamoto - 27) Marilynn Smith - 28) Laura Davies - 29) Jan Stephenson - 30) Rosie Jones

31) Paula Creamer - 32) Marlene Hagge - 33) Cristie Kerr - 34) Hollis Stacy - 35) Babe Zaharias - 36) Shirley Englehorn - 37) Beverly Hanson - 38) Suzann Pettersen - 39) Jane Geddes - 40) Sally Little

41) Clifford Ann Creed - 42) Mi Hyun Kim - 43) Liselotte Neumann - 44) Kelly Robbins - 45) Yani Tseng - 46) Tammy Green - 47) Jo Ann Prentice - 48) Mary B Mills - 49) Betty Jameson - 50) Brandie Burton

51) Sherri Steinhauer - 52) Sandra Post - 53) Christa Johnson - 54) Hee-Won Han - 55) Pat Hurst - 56) Colleen Walker - 57) Catriona Matthew - 58) Lorie Kane - 59) Helen Alfredsson - 60) Susie Maxwell Berning

61) Fay Crocker - 62) Ruth Jessen - 63) Rachel Hetherington - 64) Sandra Spuzich - 65) Mary Lena Faulk - 66) Morgan Pressel - 67) Ai Miyazato - 68) Jeong Jang - 69) Donna Andrews - 70) Judy Dickenson

71) Na Yeon Choi - 72) Grace Park - 73) Kathy Cornelius - 74) Michele Redman - 75) Danielle Ammaccapane - 76) Angela Stanford - 77) Seon Hwa Lee - 78) Dawn Coe-Jones - 79) Debbie Austin - 80) Candie Kung

81) Deb Richard - 82) Sophie Gustafson - 83) Debbie Massey - 84) Kathy Postlewait - 85) Michelle McGann - 86) Val Skinner - 87) Barb Mucha - 88) Murle Breer - 89) Brittany Lincicome - 90) Maria Hjorth

91) Emilee Klein - 92) Donna White -93) Margaret Smith - 94) Wendy Ward - 95) In-Kyung Kim - 96) Laura Diaz - 97) Hiromi Kobayashi - 98) Laura Baugh - 99) Stacy Prammanasudh - 100) Christina Kim

102) Patty Rizzo / 4 wins - 109) Cindy Rarick / 5 wins - 115) Jackie Pung / 5 wins - 116) Joyce Ziske / 5 wins - 130) Alison Nicholas / 4 wins - 138) Alice Miller / 8 wins - 147) Dorothy Delasin / 4 wins - 166) Carol Jo Callison Whitted / 4 wins - 169) Penny Hammel - 171) Betty Burfeindt / 4 wins - 205) Mary Beth Zimmerman / 4 wins - 291) Sue Roberts / 4 wins

362) Hilary Lunke / lowest rated player with a major win - 343) Birdie Kim / second lowest rating for a player with a major win - 445) Mary Bea Porter-King / lowest rated player with a win

Active players in Top 50 - 6) Karrie Webb / stayed at #6, good shot at moving to #5 if she continues to perform - 15) Julie Inkster / stayed at #15 and unlikely to move / just had surgery - 24) Se Ri Pak / dropped one spot from #23 / this year should establish minimum career rating with 10 tournaments as this will be 15 years / lower rating than expected based on wins due to injuries and burnout - 28) Laura Davies / moved up one spot from #29 due to correction in calculation - 31) Paula Creamer / moved up from #35 / moved into top 10 on career money list - 33) Cristie Kerr / stayed at #33 and set a minimum career rating / will probably move up this year - 38) Suzann Pettersen / moved up from #41 - 42) Mi Hyun Kim / dropped from #39 / could fall further unless she returns to previous form - 45) Yani Tseng was not rated - 54) Hee-Won Han dropped out of the top 50 / she was #50

New to Top 100 - 45) Yani Tseng / not rated - 71) Na Yeon Choi / not rated - 89) Brittany Lincicome / moved up from #132 - 95) In-Kyung Kim / not rated - 98) - Laura Baugh / moved up from 102

Dropped out of Top 100 - 102) Patti Rizzo / dropped from #98 - 103) Tina Barrett / dropped from #99 - 104) Jee Young Lee / dropped from #95 - 105) Natalie Gulbis / dropped from #96 - 108) Janice Moodie / dropped from 100

Morgan Pressel is #66 with 2 wins one a major and Ai Miyazato is #67 with 7 wins. Both players were rookies in 2006. Pressel has played on average 2 more tournaments per year for the last six years and rates higher than Ai Miyazato mostly because of lower penalties for too few tournaments. Both players should pass the 150 tournament mark on the LPGA this year. At that time Miyazato will pass Pressel as she has played at a higher level. With a good year and a victory Ai Miyazato has a good shot at moving into my Top 50 by the end of the year.