Your guide to the LPGA’s FM Championship at TPC Boston

In simply its second yr on the LPGA Tour, the FM Championship at TPC Boston has turned itself right into a can’t-miss occasion.

The one New England cease on the LPGA Tour, the FM Championship boasts one of many largest purses on the tour and touts its premium participant facilities to draw a discipline chock-full of elite rivals.

The 2025 event tees off Thursday morning and runs via Sunday at TPC Boston in Norton. TV protection on the Golf Channel begins at 3 p.m. every day.

Right here’s every part you’ll want to find out about Massachusetts’ premier LPGA Tour occasion.

FM Championship schedule

Thursday: First spherical, 7:15 a.m. (morning wave), 12:15 p.m. (afternoon wave)

Friday: Second spherical, 7:15 a.m. (morning wave), 12:15 p.m. (afternoon wave)

Saturday: Third spherical, 7:30 a.m.

Sunday: Last spherical, 7:30 a.m.

FM Championship particulars and TV data

When: August 28-31

The place: TPC Boston in Norton

watch: The Golf Channel will carry protection of all 4 rounds from 3-6 p.m. every day of competitors.

FM Championship tickets

Single-day and full-weekend move tickets are nonetheless out there on SeatGeek. Day by day tickets begin at $54 for common admission, and weekly passes begin at $124. Admission is free for kids ages 17 and underneath when accompanied by a ticketed grownup.

About TPC Boston

Designed by Arnold Palmer in 2002 and modified by Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner in 2007, the course is about on almost 4,000 acres and options pure terrain, woodlands, and wetlands. Will probably be arrange a bit in another way for the ladies. Whereas the course performed as a par-71, 7,297-yard check for the boys on the PGA Tour, will probably be a 6,598-yard par-72 for the FM Championship.

FM Championship purse and perks for athletes

The FM Championship, solely in its second yr, has quickly established itself as a premier destination on the LPGA Tour.

The event’s purse of $4.1 million (up from $3.8 million in 2024) is the seventh-largest sum on this yr’s LPGA Tour. Just one event remaining on this yr’s schedule — the CME Group Tour Championship in November, $11 million — has a bigger prize pool.

The event, its organizers, and sponsors have additionally gone the additional mile to supply inns for all gamers, offset transportation prices, and embody extra facilities that different tournaments would possibly overlook.

“The phrase’s out — the FM Championship is the place to be this time of yr,” mentioned Dave Johnson, the FM senior vice chairman.

FM Championship golfers to observe

Whereas most of the top-ranked golfers opted out of final yr’s FM Championship attributable to uncommon scheduling across the 2024 Paris Olympics, this yr’s discipline is stacked and options 70 LPGA Tour winners and all 5 2025 main champions.

Of the highest 40 gamers on this planet, 36 will play at TPC Boston. Right here’s who to keep watch over.

· World No. 1 Jeeno Thitikul of Thailand and No. 2 Nelly Korda of the US will spotlight the sector. Thitikul, 22, completed fourth on the occasion final yr and has 5 wins and 49 top-10 finishes since becoming a member of the Tour in 2022.

Korda, 27, has 15 profession wins (none this season) and has made 4 appearances within the Solheim Cup, serving to Crew USA to a victory in 2024. She’ll be making her FM Championship debut.

· The event’s defending champion Haeran Ryu and 2024 runner-up Jin Younger Ko will return to the FM Championship. Ryu held off Ko in a playoff to win the inaugural occasion and take house the winner’s purse of $575,000.

· Massachusetts native Megan Khang (ranked No. 31 on this planet) will once more signify her house state after ending tied for thirty fifth (-3) finally yr’s FM Championship. Khang, who grew up in Rockland with her father as her coach, joined the tour in 2016 and has 46 profession top-10 finishes. Different native rivals embody Shrewsbury’s Brittany Altomare and Westborough’s Alexa Pano.