Scores from the LPGA Tour Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions on Thursday -7 A Lim Kim (Korea Republic) 65 -3 Jin Young Ko (Korea Republic) 69 Patty Tavatanakit (Thailand) 69 -2 Celine Bout

LPGA Tour season will tee off in Orlando this week, with five Korean players in the field for the opener featuring winners in the past two years.

Lim Kim makes flying start on first day of 2025 LPGA Tour; South Korean cards bogey-free 65 to secure four-shot lead; Celine Boutier, Leona Maguire and Rose Zhang in cluster chasing Kim

D efending champion Lydia Ko and World No. 1 Nelly Korda will headline the season-opening Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions. The field closed on Tuesday at 5 p.m. E.T

Nelly Korda took off about seven days after her historic 2024 before getting back to work. She went to Utah and tried new things, like dogsledding, which she said was fun but probably a one-and-done.

The LPGA Rankings on Jan 21 Rnk Prv Total 1. (1) Nelly Korda (USA) 425.37 2. (3) Lydia Ko (New Zealand) 287.99 3. (2) Ruoning Yin (China PR) 261.70 4. (4) Atthaya Thitikul (Thailand) 244.33 5. (5) Lilia Vu (USA) 231.

Korea's Kim A-lim has grabbed the opening-round lead at the first LPGA tournament of 2025 thanks to a bogey-free performance.

Kim shot 7-under 65 on Thursday at Lake Nona to grab a four-shot lead after the tour's first round of the season.