Something incredible is happening on the LPGA Tour, and I don’t think we are discussing it nearly enough. In 22 LPGA events this season, we have not had a single repeat winner. In fact, there are 23 unique winners, since one of the events was a team event. With 10 events to go, we have already surpassed last year’s total of 20 different winners. I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say we have never seen a season like this on the LPGA. In the last 10 seasons, the only time we didn’t have a player with at least three wins was 2020, though there were two multi-time winners in just 18 events.

I think the biggest takeaway from this season is that the pool of talent worldwide is as deep as it has ever been. Brooke Henderson winning the CPKC Women’s Open in Canada last week ended a run of four consecutive tournaments won by players 25 years old or younger. On the season, 13 of the winners have been 25 or younger. Recent events have highlighted very clearly in the influx of talent, both from the college ranks and abroad, most notably from Japan. Rookie Lottie Woad, who was a star at Florida State University, won the Scottish Open in her first professional tournament. She nearly broke the streak of unique winners the next week at the AIG Women’s Open, but finished T8, seven strokes behind 24-year-old Miyu Yamashita from Japan. The next tournament was won by 23-year-old Japanese rookie Akie Iwai. Iwai joined her twin sister, Chisato Iwai, as a winner on tour this season. Altogether, five Japanese players have won on the LPGA Tour this season.

I think the most surprising aspect of this season is that Nelly Korda is not one of the 23 winners this season. She won seven times in 2024, while no other player had more than three wins. If she does not win one of the final 10 events, this will be just her third season without a win since she turned pro in 2016. It will be her first season without a win since 2020, when she played just 12 events. Korda has been runner-up twice this season with four other top-10 finishes. She is second on Tour in Scoring Average and third in Rounds in the 60s and Total Strokes Gained. Korda is first in Birdie or Better Percentage, fourth in Par 4 Scoring, and second in Par 5 Scoring. She is also first in Top-Tens Without a Win, which seems like a mean stat to keep, but it's right there between Top-10 Finishes and Top-25 Finishes.

Interestingly enough, Korda is tied on that leaderboard with two other players, Ariya Jutanugarn and Hye-Jin Choi. Jutanugarn has 12 career wins but just once since 2018, while the 26-year-old Choi is looking for her first win despite 26 career top-10s. In fact, Choi has already finished second in this stat twice since turning pro in 2022.

If we go even further down the list, we will find there are plenty of very good players who are still looking for their first win this season. There are five players on the list tied with five top-10s. Gaby Lopez, Lauren Coughlin, Andrea Lee, Megan Khang, and Sei Young Kim have combined for 19 career wins. Ruoning Yin is 22 years old but has five wins on Tour, including two in each of the last two seasons. I wouldn’t be surprised to see two or three of these players win this season.

That being said, my best guess is that we get at least two multi-time winners before the season is through. It wouldn’t really be a surprise to see any of the 2025 winners repeat, especially the rookies. We are also getting to the point where, statistically speaking, it is becoming increasingly more likely to get a repeat winner. Of the 23 winners this season, 21 are teeing it up at the FM Championship at TPC Boston this week. That represents nearly 15 percent of the field. With each passing week, the pool of possible repeat winners gets larger.

Of those players, I think Lottie Woad is the first to get her second win. She nearly got her first win before she even turned pro, finishing T3 in the Evan Championship. She made the cut in three of her four Major starts this season, and while she had a disappointing missed cut at the CPKC Women’s Open last week, I think it's just a matter of time before she wins again. Woad is already ranked 18th in the world, and she has a win on the Ladies European Tour as an amateur as well. Whether it is Woad, one of the others, or no one, I will be watching this story closely for as long as the streak continues.