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.

Kim A-lim clinched victory at the LPGA’s Lotte Championship with an 18-under-par, 270, at Hoakalei Country Club in Hawaii with a wire-to-wire run on Saturday, claiming her second title on the Tour and the prize money of $450,

The 2024 Lotte Championship prize money payout is from the $3 million purse, with 65 professional players who complete three rounds at Hoakalei Country Club in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, earning LPGA Tour prize money and an official-money paycheck this week.