Twenty-one Korean players competed in last week's LPGA Tour Ford Championship, which Kim Hyo-joo won. But the field drops to just 12 Koreans this week at the Aramco Championship, the seventh event of the LPGA Tour season, held over four days starting Friday at Shadow Creek Golf Course (par 72) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Of the two Korean LPGA rookies this year, Hwang Yu-min is in the field, but Lee Dong-eun is not on the entry list.
The sharp decline in Korean entries is because the newly established Aramco Championship is co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour and the Ladies European Tour (LET). With LET players also given entry spots, LPGA qualification slots have been significantly reduced.
