The strain to qualify for the LPGA’s season finale is lastly over and a few notable names didn’t make it.

The Annika occasion marked the final probability for gamers to crack the highest 60 within the Race to the CME Globe standings, thus qualifying for the upcoming CME Group Tour Championship.

This 12 months’s discipline in Naples, Florida, nevertheless, will look slightly completely different.

Lexi Thompson wanted not less than a solo third-place end at The Annika with a view to squeeze into the highest 60 within the CME standings. She gave it a run, tying for seventh. But it surely wasn’t sufficient as she completed 79th within the standings.

It should mark the primary time in her profession that the 11-time LPGA winner shouldn’t be on the finale, which she gained in 2018. Thompson, winless on tour since ’19, had been taking part in nicely of late. She gained 3 factors on the Solheim Cup and completed inside the highest 10 in her two most up-to-date LPGA begins. She additionally practically made the reduce in a shock begin on the PGA Tour’s Shriners Youngsters’s Open. However even with the inspiring end, Thompson’s tough begin to the 12 months proved too massive of a hill to climb.

Lydia Ko has been slipping from that hill because the begin of the 12 months. Ko gained thrice in 2022, together with the CME Group Tour Championship. She was additionally Participant of the 12 months, ranked No. 1 on this planet and bought married.

She entered this week’s match, nevertheless, outdoors the highest 100 in factors with solely two top-10 finishes on the season. Ko tied for thirty first at Pelican Golf Membership and moved from No. 101 to 100.

Additionally failing to qualify for the CME was Emily Kline Pedersen. The Dane, looking for her first LPGA title, led The Annika via 54 holes. Although she couldn’t win the occasion when she reached the ultimate gap, she wanted to make a par with a view to advance to the finale for the primary time. As a substitute, she hit it into the water and made a double-bogey 6, ending seventieth on the factors listing.

Pedersen shot 74 on Sunday with out a birdie, tying for seventh.