The LPGA Tour is back in action this week at the Dow Championship in Midland, Mich. This event sees LPGA athletes partner up for four days of team golf each year, two days of which will see them play foursomes and two rounds of which will be in a four-ball format. There are three past winning teams competing, including defending champions Jeeno Thitikul and Ruoning Yin, 2023 winners Cheyenne Knight and Elizabeth Szokol and the Jutanugarn sisters, and they are joined by 20 of this season’s rookies, most notably Japanese twins Akie and Chisato Iwai, who will be teeing it up as partners this week in the Great Lakes State.
Check out who else is in the field at the Dow Championship:
Past Winning Teams (3):
Jeeno Thitikul & Ruoning Yin (2024), Cheyenne Knight & Elizabeth Szokol (2023), Ariya & Moriya Jutanugarn (2021)
2025 LPGA Tour Winners (8 of 16):
Carlota Ciganda (Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give
), Chisato Iwai (MEXICO Riviera Maya Open at Mayakoba), Lydia Ko (HSBC Women’s World Championship), Jennifer Kupcho (ShopRite LPGA Classic presented by Acer), Ingrid Lindblad (JM Eagle LA Championship presented by Plastpro), Haeran Ryu (Black Desert Championship presented by Greater Zion), Rio Takeda (Blue Bay LPGA), Jeeno Thitikul (Mizuho Americas Open)
Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings (11 of 25):
Jeeno Thitikul (No. 2), Lydia Ko (No. 3), Ruoning Yin (No. 4), Haeran Ryu (No. 5), Rio Takeda (No. 13), Lauren Coughlin (No. 14), Ayaka Furue (No. 16), Miyu Yamashita (No. 18), Ariya Jutanugarn (No. 22), Carlota Ciganda (No. 23), Akie Iwai (No. 25)
2025 LPGA Tour Rookies (20 of 21):
Saki Baba, Jenny Bae, Adela Cernousek, Mariel Galdiano, Akie Iwai, Chisato Iwai, Heather Lin, Ingrid Lindblad, Julia Lopez Ramirez, Caley McGinty, Cassie Porter, Jessica Porvasnik, Kate Smith-Stroh, Rio Takeda, Miranda Wang, Fiona Xu, Miyu Yamashita, Ina Yoon, Madison Young, Yahui Zhang
Sponsor Exemptions (4):
Kaleigh Babineaux (a), Bailey Davis (a), Jessica Jolly (a), Allyn Stephens (a)
