PostsPatty Tavatanakit: 2021 LPGA Rookie of the Year The 2021 LPGA Tour season isnt over yet, but Patty Tavakanakit has clinched the tours Rookie of the Year Award. The LPGA uses a points formula for its awards (as opposed to a players vote), and Tavatanakits lead over second-place Leona Maguire is insurmountable. So she is the Rookie of the Year winner. Now, if you are a fan of the LPGA and of Patty, as we obviously are, you might have realized something: 2021 was not Pattys rookie year on the LPGA Tour. She was a tour member in 2020 and played 14 tournaments. In normal times, therefore, Tavatanakit would not have been eligible for the rookie award in 2021. But in the COVID era, times arent always normal. Because the LPGA had a truncated season in 2020, it did not name a Rookie of the Year last year. All those who would have been been eligible in 2020 had that eligibility carried over to 2021, and that is why Patty Tavatanakit was earning Rookie of the Year points throughout the 2021 season. How did French amateur Charlotte Liautier is a winner on the LET Access Series. That tours season-ending event was played at Real Club de Golf El Prat in Barcelona and co-sanctioned by the Spain-based Santander Tour. The LETAS is one level down from the Ladies European Tour. Liautier is 22 years old. She went into the event ranked No. 141 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, her best ranking so far in the WAGR being 122nd. Over her last 33 ranking events, Liautier has posted 14 Top 10s and three victories, including the 2021 Italian Ladies Amateur and 2020 French International Ladies Championship. She is the top-ranked amateur from France at the time of this writing. After the Barcelona win, Liautier said, Its been an incredible week! Its my best win to date and my first professional win and for that Im very happy. I played very well during the week on a very demanding course that was in perfect condition. There were tough scoring conditions throughout the three roun Two-time LPGA major championship winner In Gee Chun recently shared these photos on Instagram . They are from a fashion photo shoot she did for the Korean brand Fair Liar. The brand touts itself as being for the classy golfer who values sophistication, and states that We compete with unrivaled quality and style. Hey, if thats the vibe you are trying to transmit, then picking In Gee Chun as one of your endorsers and models is a great move. When Brooke Matthews posted the photo above on Instagram, she captioned it, Senior year?? Lets do this!! Well, guess what: Brooke is doing it . Brooke recently won the 2021 Blessings Collegiate Invitational, the University of Arkansas home tournament in Fayetteville. Matthews led Arkansas to the team championship by a whopping 19 strokes over second-place UCLA. And in the individual competition, Brooke won the tournament for the second year in a row. She carded rounds of 72-66-74 for a 212 total, 4-under par the only player in the field to break par. Her 66 in the second round was a Blessings course record. Matthews went into the Blessings ranked No. 18 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, at No. 13 in the Golfweek Amateur Rankings, and at No. 1 in the Golfweek Womens College Rankings. Matthews Blessings Collegiate victory came a couple weeks after she won the Charleston Cougar Classic by 13 strokes, setting an NCAA scoring record for women in the pr Sophia Schubert won the 2021 Carolina Golf Classic on the Symetra Tour. The tournament concluded on October 3 and was her first career win on the Symetra Tour. But maybe even better than winning is the fact that with her earnings, her seasons winnings total now guarantees that Schubert will finish in the Top 10 of the Symetra Tour money list. And that means shell have LPGA Tour membership in 2022. Schubert won the Carolinas Golf Classic with rounds of 68, 64, 70 and 68, to finish at 18-under 270. That left her in a tie with Fatima Fernandez Cano, and Schubert won their sudden-death playoff on the third extra hole. The winners check of $30,000 pushed Schuberts season total to nearly $100,000. It was her ninth Top 10 finish of 2021 her sixth consecutively. That late-season run started with a tie for second place in the FireKeepers Casino Hotel Championship in August. She also tied for second early in the Symetra season at the IOA Championship. Schubert playedJin Young Ko was No. 2 in the world rankings going into the 2021 LPGA Portland Classic. Winning that tournament wasnt enough to boost Ko past Nelly Korda into the No. 1 spot. But Ko has been No. 1 in the (recent) past, and we can bet the house that she will have that No. 1 spot again in the future. The Cambia Portland Classic, unfortunately, was shortened to 54 holes due to bad weather. But its still an official win for Ko, who carded rounds of 69, 67 and 69. She finished at 11-under 205, winning by four strokes. The win was extra impressive because it was her first tournament play in six weeks. Ko hadnt played since the Tokyo Olympics. It was Kos ninth career LPGA Tour victory, and her second of 2021. She won the Volunteers of America Classic in July. Ko is a two-time major championship winner, and she also has 11 wins on the LPGA of Korea Tour. She was the LPGAs Rookie of the Year in 2018, and its Player of the Year in 2019. Ko led the tour in scoring Gabrielle Macdonald is now a two-time winner on the LET Access Series in 2021. The 28-year-old from Scotland won the Lavaux Ladies Open in Switzerland, which concluded on September 17, 2021. That victory which happened in a playoff follows her win earlier this year in the LETAS Allerum Open. Her first win happened exactly one month earlier than her victory in Lavaux. In 35 career LETAS starts, Macdonald now has nine career Top 10 finishes and the two wins. The LETAS is a development tour that feeds into the Ladies European Tour. Her two wins put Macdonald in a position to challenge for an automatic berth on next years LET circuit. At the 2021 Lavaux Ladies Open, Macdonald rolled in a birdie putt on the final hole of regulation to tie Gemma Clews and force a playoff. And on the first hole, she sealed the victory with a par putt. Macdonald had rounds of 69, 71 and 69 to finish at 7-under 209. Macdonald also recorded fourth- and fifth-place finishes earlier in 2021.