Featured Groups: 2024 LPGA Drive On Championship | LPGA

BRADENTON, Fla. — The LPGA Drive On Championship is on tap this week for the LPGA Tour’s top talent as 120 of the world’s best players take on Bradenton Country Club for the sixth playing of the event. The field features defending champion Celine Boutier, five of the top 10 in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings, including No. 1 Lilia Vu, and last week’s Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions winner Lydia Ko, who will all be clamoring for a share of the $1.75 million purse. Take a look at just some of the featured groups this week at the LPGA Drive On Championship.

Thursday, 8:09 a.m. – Linn Grant/Georgia Hall/Celine Boutier

A trio of European Solheim Cup teammates comprise group nine on Thursday at the LPGA Drive On Championship. Sweden’s Linn Grant became a Rolex First-Time Winner last year at the Dana Open, blitzing the field with a 72-hole total of 21-under to win by three shots over Allisen Corpuz in Sylvania, Ohio. In addition to her victory, Grant recorded three other T7 or better results, the most notable of which was a tie for sixth at the CPKC Women’s Open, and she ultimately finished 24th in the Race to the CME Globe in 2023. She also made her Solheim Cup debut last year as a rookie on the European team, helping the Blue and Yellow retain the Cup for a third consecutive time after a 14-14 tie with the Americans at Finca Cortesin. Grant opened her 2024 season last week at the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions with a T27 finish, and this week marks her first start in the LPGA Drive On Championship since joining the LPGA Tour in 2022.

Georgia Hall is making her season debut in Bradenton, Fla., and will be looking to break through for the first time since the 2020 Portland Classic this year. She came close a handful of times last season, earning five top-10 finishes, two of which were back-to-back runner-up results that came at the LPGA Drive On Championship at Superstition Mountain and the FIR HILLS SERI PAK Championship last spring. And while she didn’t finish 2023 as strongly as she started it, the Englishwoman still managed to record four T16 or better results in her last seven events of the season. According to KPMG Performance Insights, Hall is one of just four players to be ranked in the top 20 in both strokes gained total and strokes gained putting over the last two seasons, doing so alongside Celine Boutier, Atthaya Thitikul and Lilia Vu. Her prowess with the flat stick should prove promising this week at Bradenton Country Club, a Donald Ross design that features sloped, undulating greens, so definitely keep an eye on Hall at the LPGA Drive On Championship.

Celine Boutier became the winningest French player in LPGA Tour history with her playoff victory over Hall at the 2023 LPGA Drive On Championship at Superstition Mountain. The win primed Boutier for even more success throughout the rest of the season as the Frenchwoman went on to win three additional times at The…