LPGA Rookie of the Year Winners List, Mao Saigo wins 2024 award, History Since 1962

– Japan’s Mao Saigo became only the second player in LPGA history to clinch the Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year Award. Hiromi Kobayashi became the first in 1990.

While Saigo didn’t win on the LPGA this year, her consistent play was highlighted by seven top-10 finishes. She edged South Korea’s Jin Hee Im by 86 points. She tied for 25th at the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship.

Saigo finished runner-up at the CPKC Women’s Open and took a share of second at the Buick LPGA Shanghai.

The LPGA's rookie of the year award was first handed out in 1962. Today, its official title is Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year. Not surprisingly, the list of winners belows includes some very big names — including a double-digit number of LPGA rookies of the year who went on to earn Hall of Fame membership.

More: Full List of LPGA Player of the Year Award winners from 1966-2024.

Full List of LPGA Rookie of the Year winners from 1962-2022.

Here is the list of winners, from most-recent back to the very first:

2025 —

2024 — Mao Saigo

2023 — Hae Ran Ryu

2022 — Atthaya Thitikul

2021 — Patty Tavatanakit

2020 — Not Awarded

2019 — Jeongeun Lee6

2018 — Jin Young Ko

2017 — Sung Hyun Park

2016 — In Gee Chun

2015 — Sei Young Kim

2014 — Lydia Ko

2013 — Moriya Jutanugarn

2012 — So Yeon Ryu

2011 — Hee Kyung Seo

2010 — Azahara Munoz

2009 — Jiyai Shin

2008 — Yani Tseng

2007 — Angela Park

2006 — Seon-Hwa Lee

2005 — Paula Creamer

2004 — Shi-Hyun Ahn

2003 — Lorena Ochoa

2002 — Beth Bauer

2001 — Hee-Won Han

2000 — Dorothy Delasin

1999 — Mi Hyun Kim

1998 — Se Ri Pak

1997 — Lisa Hackney

1996 — Karrie Webb

1995 — Pat Hurst

1994 — Annika Sorenstam

1993 — Suzanne Strudwick

1992 — Helen Alfredsson

1991 — Brandie Burton

1990 — Hiromi Kobayashi

1989 — Pamela Wright

1988 — Liselotte Neumann

1987 — Tammie Green

1986 — Jody Rosenthal (Anschutz)

1985 — Penny Hammel

1984 — Juli Inkster

1983 — Stephanie Farwig

1982 — Patti Rizzo

1981 — Patty Sheehan

1980 — Myra Van Hoose (Blackwelder

) 1979 — Beth Daniel

1978 — Nancy Lopez

1977 — Debbie Massey

1976 — Bonnie Lauer

1975 — Amy Alcott

1974 — Jan Stephenson

1973 — Laura Baugh

1972 — Jocelyne Bourassa

1971 — Sally Little

1970 — JoAnne Carner

1969 — Jane Blalock

1968 — Sandra Post

1967 — Sharron Moran

1966 — Jan Ferraris

1965 — Margie Masters

1964 — Susie Maxwell (Berning)

1963 — Clifford Ann Creed

1962 — Mary Mills

LPGA Rookie of the Year Winners Who Became Hall-of-Famers

Since its inception in 1962, 12 Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year winners have become members of either the LPGA Hall of Fame or World Golf Hall of Fame:

Susie Maxwell Berning (1964),

Joanne Carner (1970),

Jan Stephenson (1974),

Amy Alcott (1975),

Nancy Lopez (1978),

Beth Daniel (1979),

Patty Sheehan (1981),

Juli Inkster (1984),

Annika Sorenstam (1994),

Karrie Webb (1996),

Se Ri Pak (1998) and

Lorena Ochoa (2003).

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