Martin Trainer tee times, live stream, TV coverage | The RSM Classic, November 21-24

Martin Trainer tee times, live stream, TV coverage | The RSM Classic, November 21-24

Martin Trainer tee times, live stream, TV coverage | The RSM Classic, November 21-24

Martin Trainer is among the entrants who will be competing at Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course) in Sea Island, GA from November 21-24 to play at the 2024 The RSM Classic.

In his 19 events during the past year, Trainer has a best finish of 19th and an average finish of 42nd, with no top rounds of the day.

Keep reading for all the information you need to know about Trainer before the the 2024 The RSM Classic, including how to catch the action live on TV or via live stream.

The RSM Classic TV channel and live stream info

  • Date: November 21-24, 2024
  • Thursday Coverage: Golf Channel
  • Friday Coverage: Golf Channel
  • Saturday Coverage: Golf Channel
  • Sunday Coverage: Golf Channel
  • Location: Sea Island, GA
  • Course: Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course)
  • Live Stream on Fubo: Start your free trial today!

Martin Trainer Tee Times

  • Round 1: 9:01 AM ET
  • Round 2: 10:07 AM ET

The RSM Classic coverage on Fubo and ESPN+

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Martin Trainer stats and recent trends

  • He has not made the cut recently, missing the weekend in his last five tournaments.
  • Trainer has not finished within five strokes of the winner or recorded a better-than-average score in any of his last five appearances.

Martin Trainer at The RSM Classic

  • This week will take place on a par 72 that clocks in at 7,060 yards, compared to the average 7,037 yards for Tour stops over the past year.
  • Over the last year, Tour stops have seen an average score of -5, while Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course) has a recent scoring average of +15.
  • Trainer will take to the 7,060-yard course this week at Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course) after having played courses with an average length of 7,340 yards over the past year.
  • Events he’s played over the past year have seen players average a score of -9 relative to par. That’s lower than this course, which has a scoring average of +15.
  • Trainer wound up 54th at this event the one time he finished the tournament.
  • In his last five attempts at this tournament, he’s made the cut once.
  • Trainer missed the cut when he last played this event in 2023.

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These are the 20 winners on the LPGA during the 2024 season

These are the 20 winners on the LPGA during the 2024 season

These are the 20 winners on the LPGA during the 2024 season

Nelly Korda is having a season for the ages.

With seven wins – and a chance for an eighth in the season finale – Korda is the first LPGA golfer to have seven wins in a season since Yani Tseng in 2011. She’s the first American to win seven events since Beth Daniel in 1990. Korda’s previous best single-season win total was four victories in 2021. She has 15 career wins.

There are three other golfers with three wins. There are five golfers in all with more than one win in 2024. In all, 20 different golfers won an LPGA tournament this year.

Pos. Golfer Wins Events
1 Nelly Korda 7 15
T2 Lydia Ko 3 19
T2 Hannah Green 3 19
T2 Ruoning Yin 3 19
5 Lauren Coughlin 2 24
T6 Amy Yang 1 21
T6 Jasmine Suwannapura 1 29
T6 Bailey Tardy 1 22
T6 Moriya Jutanugarn 1 26
T6 Lilia Vu 1 17
T6 Patty Tavatanakit 1 17
T6 Linnea Strom 1 26
T6 Haeran Ryu 1 25
T6 Jeeno Thitikul 1 16
T6 Rose Zhang 1 19
T6 A Lim Kim 1 27
T6 Yuka Saso 1 21
T6 Ayaka Furue 1 23
T6 Chanettee Wannasaen 1 28
T6 Rio Takeda 1 5
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Check the yardage book: Sea Island's Seaside Course for the 2024 RSM Classic

Check the yardage book: Sea Island's Seaside Course for the 2024 RSM Classic

Check the yardage book: Sea Island's Seaside Course for the 2024 RSM Classic

Sea Island’s Seaside Course in St. Simons Island, Georgia – the main layout of the two in play this week for the PGA Tour’s 2024 RSM Classic – originally opened in 1929 and was extensively renovated in 1999.

The original design was by Harry S. Colt and Charles Alison, and it underwent several modifications over the decades. It was most recently redone by Tom Fazio in 1999.

The Seaside will be one of two courses in play for this week’s RSM Classic. The first two rounds also include the popular resort’s Plantation course – each player completes one round on each course – before all weekend play moves solely to the Seaside Course.

The Seaside will play to 7,005 yards with a par of 70 for the RSM Classic. The Plantation Course – renovated by Davis Love III and his brother, Mark, in 2019 – will play to 7,060 yards with a par of 72.

The Seaside Course ranks No. 1 in Golfweek’s Best list of public-access courses in Georgia, and it also ties for No. 71 on Golfweek’s Best list of modern courses in the U.S. – the renovation by Fazio was extensive enough for the layout to qualify as a modern course. The Plantation Course ranks No. 6 on the list of top public-access courses in the state.

Thanks to yardage books provided by Puttview – the maker of detailed yardage books for thousands of courses around the world – we can see exactly the challenges the players face this week on the Seaside Course. Check out the maps of each hole below.

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Lynch: The PGA Tour’s board meeting will bring changes, but not yet to player entitlement or fans being shortchanged

Lynch: The PGA Tour’s board meeting will bring changes, but not yet to player entitlement or fans being shortchanged

Lynch: The PGA Tour’s board meeting will bring changes, but not yet to player entitlement or fans being shortchanged

Just days after the birth of his first child and on the brink of losing his status, career journeyman Rafael Campos came up with a ‘Hail Mary’ moment on Sunday, winning the Butterfield Bermuda Championship to safeguard his job and punch his ticket to the Masters. Meanwhile, a yacht spin away at a boardroom in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, decisions were made Monday that ensure people like him will have fewer pathways to the Tour, less opportunity to use any card they earn, and dim prospects of keeping it.

The past 24 hours could hardly have produced a more jarring juxtaposition between the marketing romanticism of the PGA Tour and its modern, miserly reality.

Changes in the administration of the Tour — the addition of private investors and the rise of players who fancy themselves such — mean the boardroom is now more likely to revere Warren Buffett than, say, Arnie or Jack. Buffett has often said that price is what you pay and value is what you get, and much of what was being deliberated today focused on whether there’s sufficient value in what they’re paying for. Even if not every constituency is being subjected to the same metrics.

Rank-and-file members didn’t emerge well from this meeting. Beginning in 2026, field sizes will be reduced, the ranks of exempt players will be cut, and the number of Korn Ferry Tour grads and Monday qualifiers will be slashed. The dominant (and wholly defensible) sentiment is that too many guys are paid too much for too scant a contribution to the business, so the herd must be culled. And to be fair, some of the player-directors who made these calls are almost certainly going to find themselves on the wrong side of the cull soon enough.

2024 Butterfield Bermuda Championship

Rafael Campos of Puerto Rico reacts after putting in to win on the 18th green during the final round of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship 2024 at Port Royal Golf Course on November 17, 2024, in Southampton, Bermuda. (Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)

Also on the agenda was tens of millions of dollars of budget cuts, what private equity likes to call “efficiencies.” Addressing bloat and waste is a long overdue exercise in this organization, but many of those who work at the GloHo deserve more defenders than they’ll see when the axe starts swinging. The operations and culture of the Tour — a mix of competence, complacency and conceit, depending on who you’re dealing with — is overdue a shake-up, but people who’ve done a good job will still be hurt. Cuts ought to be with a scalpel to safeguard talent, growth and revenue, but those decisions are now heavily influenced by folks accustomed to using chainsaws, and who have a great deal of experience in sports but none in golf.

Another cost-versus-value analysis will focus on the Tour’s potential deal with the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia. Are player-directors willing to accept things like team golf and no reparations from LIV defectors in return for a smoother pathway to reunifying the game? They must surely grasp that an opportunity now presents itself in the form of a stubby Cheeto thumb eager to tilt the scales of the Department of Justice in favor of whoever is most flattering, though it’s a pity the Tour lacked PIF’s foresight to lob a couple billion bucks into Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners hedge fund.

Other reckonings will come in due course. For tournaments, which exist now in a caste system that elevates some and diminishes others, and with a risk to the entire Fall series if new global priorities emerge as part of a deal. Sponsors, too, will make their own value calculations. How many will pay in excess of $20 million to players who won’t actually guarantee their appearances? And for sluggish ratings within a niche audience? The Tour’s board will be dealing with troublesome fallout long after Greg Norman and his LIV folly have been dislodged from the Saudi teat.

More: Lucas Glover slams changes being voted on by PGA Tour Policy Board: ‘They think we’re stupid’

As of today, the Tour’s investment partners at Strategic Sports Group are a loud, powerful and impatient presence in the boardroom. That’s a positive. Outsiders with an eye on returns are incentivized to dispense with outdated practices and attitudes and push a more forward-thinking, less protectionist vision. But SSG’s can’t be the only voice that matters. Who will advocate for what can’t be represented on a balance sheet? Like the charitable impact tournaments have at a community level, the legacy and tradition around particular cities and sponsors, or the essential meritocracy of having pathways for less privileged players. That should not be lost in the accounting.

For all the changes approved today, this final Tour board meeting of 2024 won’t address two painful necessities. At some point, the board needs to face down the entitlement of top players, whose compensation seems only to rise even while the stock of their enterprise craters. And they’ll have to get real about serving the constituency that actually gives (fans) rather than just the one that takes.

If they’re confident that their decisions will produce an enhanced product for long-suffering fans, then it’s about time one of them peeked around the boardroom door and began explaining how.

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Lucas Glover slams changes being voted on by PGA Tour Policy Board: 'They think we're stupid.'

Lucas Glover slams changes being voted on by PGA Tour Policy Board: 'They think we're stupid.'

Lucas Glover slams changes being voted on by PGA Tour Policy Board: 'They think we're stupid.'

As the PGA Tour Policy Board meets Monday to vote on a number of changes that include reducing field sizes and the number of fully exempt cards available beginning in 2026, former U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover has emerged as its most vocal opponent.

“I think it’s terrible,” he said. “And then hiding behind pace of play, I think challenges our intelligence. They think we’re stupid.”

Glover contends that 20 years ago when he was starting out on the Tour, there were no more than a handful of slow players. Now? “We have 50,” he said. “So don’t cut fields because it’s a pace of play issue. Tell us to play faster, or just say you’re trying to appease six guys and make them happy so they don’t go somewhere else and play golf.”

This is a sore subject with Glover, who notes he has been part of the “cool kid meetings and not in the cool kid meetings,” and points out the Tour’s job is to do what’s right for the full membership. “There’s 200 guys that this is their life and their job,” he said.

Gary Young, the Tour’s senior vice president of rules and competition, takes a different view. Will reduced field sizes help the pace of play? “Absolutely it will,” he said. “It’s something that we’ve been saying for years that 156-man fields are too many players. It’s basically 78 players in a wave, 13 groups per side and our pace of play is set somewhere around 4 and half hours. You do the math and if they play in time par, which is basically 2 hours and 15 minutes, they make the turn and all of a sudden the group ahead of them is just walking off the tee because there’s 2 hours and 12 minutes of tee times. It becomes a parking lot. There’s nowhere to go.”

To Young, the solution is larger tee-time intervals and to do that the Tour must reduce the fields.

“We asked ourselves in the PAC meetings if we were starting the Tour from scratch what would be our maximum field size?” Young explained. “As we talked it through with the players on that subcommittee, there was agreement in the room that you would never build it so that groups would be turning and waiting at the turn. So that’s where the whole idea of 144 being our maximum field size, everyone felt that that was the right number, and the mathematics on it worked. You’ll see that some of our other fields have been reduced even further, and that’s due to time constraints.

“So a great example is we play a field size of 144 players at the Players Championship, and there’s not enough daylight for 144 players. But we always placed an emphasis on starts for members, trying to maximize the number of starts they could get in a season, and sometimes, unfortunately, it was at the detriment of everyone else in the tournament. Now we looked at it from strictly how many hours of daylight do we have, and what’s the proper field size for each event on Tour. So we went straight by sunrise and sunset building in about three hours between the waves, which is what you need. And then that gives the afternoon wave some room to run, they’re not starting out right behind the last group making the turn and backing up. So we think that we’ve done a nice job building the schedule and finally getting all the field sizes correct for the future.”

Glover has a better idea.

“You get a better pace of play policy or enforce the one you have better,” he said. “If I’m in a slow twosome and an official came up and said, ‘You guys are behind, this is not a warning, y’all are on the clock and if you get a bad time, that’s a shot penalty,’ guess who’s running to their ball? That’s what we need to be doing.”

But the Tour’s system has shied away from handing out penalty strokes – the current system warns a group that they are out of position, then it gets told they are being put on the clock. If a player exceeds the time limit, the official has to tell them immediately but there is no punishment for the first bad time; not until the second bad time is a player penalized. Young conceded, “You’d have to be somewhat crazy or not paying attention to ever reach that final stage.”

Young acknowledged if the changes to field sizes is approved, it likely won’t mean any significant change to the number of slow play penalties.

“Unless they change the structure of the process, which is a four-tiered process, no,” he said. “If the players themselves want to make a serious change to it and want to visit moving to a penalty phase sooner, it’s their organization, we certainly would implement it if that’s something they want to put into effect. But we’re not there right now.”

Where we are is on the verge of reducing field sizes and not everyone — especially Glover — is happy about it.

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Nichols: Slow play continues to be a black eye for the LPGA. It's time to shrink the field at The Annika

Nichols: Slow play continues to be a black eye for the LPGA. It's time to shrink the field at The Annika

Nichols: Slow play continues to be a black eye for the LPGA. It's time to shrink the field at The Annika

BELLEAIR, Fla. — Charley Hull has an admittedly ruthless idea to fix slow play on the LPGA. Under Hull’s rules, two-shot penalties shall be given out more frequently and repeat offenders would “lose your tour card instantly.” She knows something so extreme would never happen, but the threat of Q-School would kill slow play for good.

“It’s ridiculous,” said Hull, one of the fastest players in golf, “and I feel sorry for the fans how slow it is out there.”

For the past three years, the check-writers of The Annika driven by Gainbridge at Pelican have asked the LPGA for a smaller field. It’s a matter of math, really. With 120 players in the field this time of year, it’s tough to get everyone around before the sun goes down. Even without weather delays.

And with the tour unable to rein in the issue of slow play, the ideal field for this week might be less than 100 players.

“These players are role models,” said tournament host Annika Sorenstam “You see the young girls out here, they’ve got to show how to play fast if they’re going to grow this game.”

2024 The Annika driven by Gainbridge at Pelican

Nelly Korda of the United States plays her shot from the seventh tee during the final round of The ANNIKA driven by Gainbridge at Pelican 2024 at Pelican Golf Club on November 17, 2024 in Belleair, Florida. (Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images)

When Kaitlyn Papp Budde came to the demanding 18th on Friday at Pelican Golf Club, the lights from the driving range had been moved over to help light up the green. While that didn’t help her too much in the fairway, she didn’t want to sleep on that second shot over water. She hit her approach, and then woke up early on Saturday to finish up her round along with two others. For the second consecutive day, play spilled over to the next morning despite no interruptions in play.

The ripple effect meant that with tee times pushed back 30 minutes, stars Nelly Korda and Charley Hull came to the 18th on Saturday after the sun came down. Korda called it “poor planning” that they had to finish in the dark. Golf Channel’s TV window was slated to end at 5 p.m. and extended to 5:51 p.m. The final group teed off at 12:13 p.m. on Saturday. That’s a snail’s pace of five hours and 38 minutes.

“I think the pace has gotten slower and slower, even practice rounds,” said Sorenstam. “It’s gotten to the point where a lot of players don’t even want to play 18 and it shouldn’t be that way.

“It’s something the tour needs to address.”

With several players in this week’s field trying to secure their full cards for 2025, cutting down the field would take away an opportunity for those further down the CME points list. But with pace of play a worsening issue, the logistics of The Annika could be made so much smoother with a more limited field.

Justin Sheehan, the director of golf/COO at Pelican Golf Club who first dreamed up the idea of this event, wrote a note to LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan on Sunday morning, once again laying out the case for a smaller field. They’d love to have Sorenstam hit a ceremonial tee shot on Thursday, example, but there’s simply not enough time.

Two of the most popular players in the game were battling down the stretch on Saturday and all anyone on social media could talk about was the terrible pace of play and darkening skies.

“Common sense tells you if there’s not enough daylight, just don’t have as many players,” said Sheehan. “You don’t need to be a rocket scientist for that.”

2024 The Annika driven by Gainbridge at Pelican

Carlota Ciganda of Spain plays her shot from the fifth tee during the third round of The ANNIKA driven by Gainbridge at Pelican 2024 at Pelican Golf Club on November 16, 2024 in Belleair, Florida. (Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images)

Spain’s Carlota Ciganda came into the week with a berth into the CME Group Tour Championship on the line. With a $4 million winner’s check up for grabs next week, the $4,000 fine she incurred for slow play might have been worth it as she nabbed the 60th and final spot in the field.

“I know I have to improve, and I’ll try to do that next year,” said Ciganda of her pace of play.

“I don’t think people understand how tough golf can be … mentally it’s a lot tougher than what people think. Golfers just drink some beers and play some golf, and we do this for a living. A lot goes through in your mind.”

Papp Budde, who was also hit with a slow-play fine this week, said she’d like to see the tour add more rules officials to its staff.

“Fines only do so much,” said Lauren Coughlin. “Some players are like, it’s worth it to take the fine. So I think the only real way is to penalize players.”

Missing the television window is always a problem, but even more so when network coverage is involved. Extended coverage typically moves off network to streaming or to cable on CNBC. LPGA sponsors pay low six figures for network coverage, only to have the end of a round or a tournament bumped to another station. That’s risky business.

The LPGA isn’t going to fix the slow-play issue overnight. But it can fix the race against daylight at The Annika in short order by shrinking the field. It’s important to provide opportunities for players, but it’s more important to safeguard the quality of the product.

In five short years, The Annika has quickly become one of the premiere events on the LPGA schedule. The power players involved here – Gainbridge, the Doyle family and Sorenstam – should be granted this request.

It’s for the greater good.

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2024 The Annika driven by Gainbridge at Pelican prize money payouts for every LPGA player

2024 The Annika driven by Gainbridge at Pelican prize money payouts for every LPGA player

2024 The Annika driven by Gainbridge at Pelican prize money payouts for every LPGA player

Nelly Korda banked $487,500 for winning the 2024 The Annika driven by Gainbridge at Pelican, her seventh LPGA victory this season. It’s also her 15th career win and she’s now surpassed the $13 million mark for her career.

Korda has a chance at an eighth week next week in the season ending CME Group Tour Championship but for now, she can enjoy a three-shot win in a tournament she’s now won three times.

Here’s a look at the prize money payouts for each player at the 2024 The Annika.

2024 The Annika prize money payouts

Pos. Name Score Money
1 Nelly Korda -14 $487,500
T2 Weiwei Zhang -11 $229,909
T2 Jin Hee Im -11 $229,909
T2 Charley Hull -11 $229,909
T5 Rose Zhang -10 $123,859
T5 Linn Grant -10 $123,859
7 Wichanee Meechai -9 $93,307
T8 Olivia Cowan -8 $68,370
T8 Megan Khang -8 $68,370
T8 Celine Boutier -8 $68,370
T8 Hyo Joon Jang -8 $68,370
T8 Bailey Tardy -8 $68,370
13 Lauren Coughlin -7 $54,166
T14 Lydia Ko -6 $44,534
T14 Allisen Corpuz -6 $44,534
T14 Carlota Ciganda -6 $44,534
T14 Minami Katsu -6 $44,534
T14 Minjee Lee -6 $44,534
T14 Sei Young Kim -6 $44,534
T20 Mi Hyang Lee -5 $35,341
T20 Ruoning Yin -5 $35,341
T20 Nanna Koerstz Madsen -5 $35,341
T20 Bianca Pagdanganan -5 $35,341
T20 Haeran Ryu -5 $35,341
T25 Alexa Pano -4 $29,809
T25 Esther Henseleit -4 $29,809
T25 Auston Kim -4 $29,809
T25 Nasa Hataoka -4 $29,809
T29 Albane Valenzuela -3 $25,928
T29 Ally Ewing -3 $25,928
T29 Hye-Jin Choi -3 $25,928
T32 Gaby Lopez -2 $23,450
T32 Gabriela Ruffels -2 $23,450
T34 Elizabeth Szokol -1 $18,772
T34 Patty Tavatanakit -1 $18,772
T34 Lindy Duncan -1 $18,772
T34 Lilia Vu -1 $18,772
T34 Jasmine Suwannapura -1 $18,772
T34 Nicole Broch Estrup -1 $18,772
T34 Amanda Doherty -1 $18,772
T34 A Lim Kim -1 $18,772
T34 Hinako Shibuno -1 $18,772
T43 Amy Yang E $14,070
T43 Celine Borge E $14,070
T43 Jiwon Jeon E $14,070
T43 Alena Sharp E $14,070
T43 Sarah Schmelzel E $14,070
T48 Jeongeun Lee5 +1 $12,055
T48 Savannah Grewal +1 $12,055
T48 Ariya Jutanugarn +1 $12,055
T51 Brittany Lincicome +2 $11,065
T51 Georgia Hall +2 $11,065
T53 Jing Yan +3 $10,404
T53 Rachel Kuehn +3 $10,404
T55 Anna Nordqvist +4 $9,413
T55 Arpichaya Yubol +4 $9,413
T55 Gemma Dryburgh +4 $9,413
T55 Malia Nam +4 $9,413
T59 Kaitlyn Papp Budde +6 $8,126
T59 Sofia Garcia +6 $8,126
T59 Gurleen Kaur +6 $8,126
T59 Cheyenne Knight +6 $8,126
T59 Yan Liu +6 $8,126
T64 Dewi Weber +7 $7,432
T64 Mary Liu +7 $7,432
T64 Caroline Masson +7 $7,432
T67 Chanettee Wannasaen +8 $7,102
T67 Louise Rydqvist (a) +8 $0
T69 Hira Naveed +11 $6,853
T69 Lucy Li +11 $6,853
71 Jeongeun Lee6 +12 $6,607
72 Jennifer Chang +13 $6,525

 

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Charley Hull and Nelly Korda finish in the dark at The Annika, where they'll battle once again on Sunday

Charley Hull and Nelly Korda finish in the dark at The Annika, where they'll battle once again on Sunday

Charley Hull and Nelly Korda finish in the dark at The Annika, where they'll battle once again on Sunday

As the final group chased what little daylight was left up the 18th hole, Charley Hull rinsed her approach at Pelican Golf Club while Nelly Korda suffered a disappointing three-putt.

“I was hitting a 7-iron to the green, and usually my 7-iron in this weather is like 165, 107 club. The sun then dropped, and it was kind of dark. Then it got the wind up, and I hit a really good 7-iron in and hit it pure. It just come up short in the water. Tricky little up-and-down,” said Hull.

“But my putt, I could barely see the hole. I couldn’t see the break or anything. So it was pretty dark to finish in.”

Korda called it poor planning, starting the third round so late at The Annika driven by Gainbridge at Pelican. The TV window was scheduled to finish at 5 p.m. ET but the final threesome, which teed off at 12:13 p.m., didn’t finish until 5:50 p.m. and Golf Channel stayed on air til the end.

Hull and Korda, two of the fastest players on tour, can’t be blamed. The final round is scheduled to finish at 4:30 p.m. ET on Golf Channel.

Hull paces the field at 12 under while Korda, a two-time winner of this event, sits one back with China’s Weiwei Zhang. While Korda looks to nab her seventh title of the season, Zhang is fighting for full status for the 2025.

“I just felt it’s amazing day today,” said Zhang, who carded a career-low 8-under 62. “I can’t say anything. Just I don’t know how to play that well today.”

Charley Hull of England and Nelly Korda of the United States looks on from the 18th hole during the third round of The ANNIKA driven by Gainbridge at Pelican 2024 at Pelican Golf Club on November 16, 2024 in Belleair, Florida. (Photo by Cliff Hawkins/Getty Images)

There’s much on the line Sunday at Pelican, which year after year delivers a first-class finish. In addition to the trophy, players are battling for a spot in the 60-player CME Group Tour Championship as well as their status for next season. In addition, South Korea’s Jin Hee Im, who currently trails by three, looks to make a big move in the Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year race.

Two-time major winner Brittany Lincicome, who lives in nearby St. Petersburg, will tee it up in her final round as a full-time player on Sunday. Lincicome carded a second consecutive 69 and holds a share of 36th. She tees off at 9:12 a.m. on Sunday alongside Ally Ewing and Jiwon Jeon.

Lincicome has her husband, Dewald Gouws, on the bag this week but plans to have her father, Tom, come inside the ropes Sunday to carry her home on the 18th. It will no doubt be an emotional finish for the mother of two who has long been a fan favorite.

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See who's on the bubble with one round left to qualify for CME, where the purse is $4 million

See who's on the bubble with one round left to qualify for CME, where the purse is $4 million

See who's on the bubble with one round left to qualify for CME, where the purse is $4 million

This is it. Only one round remains before the cutoff for the CME Group Tour Championship. The top 60 players on the CME points list at the conclusion of The Annika driven by Gainbridge at Pelican will qualify for the season-ending event in Naples, Florida. 

This year’s CME at Tiburon Golf Club will offer a purse of $11 million and a record $4 million winner’s check. Every player in the field will be awarded at least $55,000 at the 72-hole no-cut event. 

Alexa Pano, one of those bubble players, insists she’s not thinking about next week.

“I think I’m just focusing on the golf tournament that’s in front of me,” said Pano. “My coach always says that winning takes care of everything. I’m just focused on winning this golf tournament. If anything else happens after that, it happens.”

Here’s a list of players who are currently on the bubble:

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