10-14-2019, 01:13 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-15-2019, 08:31 AM by ColoradoTree.)
Thanks! So, top 30 and ties gets you to Q-Series for sure, and you need to cross your fingers if you're beyond that, depending on who else qualifies for Q-Series from different sources.
From the article you posted, 82, the impression I got was that if we get Li at all, it won't be for long. She'll have a Symetra Tour card after this tournament, apparently, though the earnings she could get there might not be worth it to her--only 12 women on the Symetra Tour made more than the cost of a year at Stanford in 2019. I understand that Symetra Tour card would allow her to play its events as an amateur, so perhaps she'll remain at Stanford while playing the occasional Symetra tournament. But I would think she's gone the second she qualifies for the LPGA. The article states she's too young to get her LPGA card through this year's process, so I suppose it depends on how bullish she is about her prospects at next year's Q-Series.
Li finished the day -3, so she and Valenzuela are both T17. Lee is T60 at even par. Again, Li can't get her LPGA card this year, but if she decides to play the Symetra Tour and finishes the season in the top 10, she'll get her LPGA card for the following season. (Apparently you can also get instant promotion upon your third win in a season.) Given that she said she's starting a foundation, and that she's "going to take the time from now until next season starts to really figure things out [regarding the foundation] with help from my family," it's hard for me to imagine her ever competing for Stanford. Hard to argue with the decision, either, though it might be worth gaining that acceptance and spending a couple of quarters on campus before joining the LPGA for the 2021 season, so she can always come back.
From the article you posted, 82, the impression I got was that if we get Li at all, it won't be for long. She'll have a Symetra Tour card after this tournament, apparently, though the earnings she could get there might not be worth it to her--only 12 women on the Symetra Tour made more than the cost of a year at Stanford in 2019. I understand that Symetra Tour card would allow her to play its events as an amateur, so perhaps she'll remain at Stanford while playing the occasional Symetra tournament. But I would think she's gone the second she qualifies for the LPGA. The article states she's too young to get her LPGA card through this year's process, so I suppose it depends on how bullish she is about her prospects at next year's Q-Series.
Li finished the day -3, so she and Valenzuela are both T17. Lee is T60 at even par. Again, Li can't get her LPGA card this year, but if she decides to play the Symetra Tour and finishes the season in the top 10, she'll get her LPGA card for the following season. (Apparently you can also get instant promotion upon your third win in a season.) Given that she said she's starting a foundation, and that she's "going to take the time from now until next season starts to really figure things out [regarding the foundation] with help from my family," it's hard for me to imagine her ever competing for Stanford. Hard to argue with the decision, either, though it might be worth gaining that acceptance and spending a couple of quarters on campus before joining the LPGA for the 2021 season, so she can always come back.