Tension is running high in the final weeks of the 2024 LPGA season. That’s especially so for players outside the top 60 in the Race to the CME Group Tour Championship and trying desperately to get inside the magic number in order to qualify for the finale and have a chance at the $4 million first-place prize money payout.

What a week it was in the United Arab Emirates for 39-year-old Paul Waring. The lifelong DP World Tour player earned his second victory, and first in six years, at the season's penultimate event, the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship at Yas Links.

A Lim Kim had a hole-in-one on the par-3 ninth and birdied the final two holes for a 5-under 67 and one-stroke lead over Nataliya Guseva on Friday in the Lotte Championship.

The purse at the 2024 Zozo Championship is $7.2 million with a first-place prize of $1.296 million. Five of the eight Fall series events have smaller purses from a year ago, including the WWTC, which is down $1 million.

A Lim Kim won the Lotte Championship on Saturday for her second LPGA Tour title, closing with a 4-under 68 for a two-stroke victory over playing competitor Nataliya Guseva.

A Lim Kim crossed the $1 million mark in earnings this season after her victory at the Lotte Championship in Hawaii. The 29-year-old South Korean earned $450,000 for her two-stroke triumph over Russian rookie Nataliya Guseva.

The 2024 Lotte Championship final leaderboard is headed by winner A Lim Kim, who topped the LPGA Tour leaderboard this week with a win at Hoakalei Country Club in Ewa Beach, Hawaii. Kim won for the first time in this LPGA Tour season,