Lotte Championship

The Lotte Championship is a women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour. It debuted in April 2012 at the Ko Olina Golf Club in Kapolei, Hawaii.

Lotte Championship

Tournament information
Location	ʻEwa Beach, Hawaii, U.S.
Established	2012
Course(s)	Hoakalei Country Club
Par	72
Length	6,303 yards (5,763 m)
Tour(s)	LPGA Tour
Format	Stroke play - 72 holes
Prize fund	$2 million
Month played	April
Tournament record score
Aggregate	260 Lydia Ko (2021)
To par	−28 as above
Current champion
Kim A-lim

ʻEwa Beach

Location on Oahu, Hawaii, U.S.

The title sponsor of the tournament is Lotte, an industrial conglomerate based in South Korea and Japan. The presenting sponsor from 2012 to 2014 was J Golf, a Korean broadcaster. In 2012, the LPGA Lotte Championship was one of two LPGA tournaments in the United States presented by J Golf. From 2015 to 2018, the presenting sponsor was Hershey.

Ai Miyazato won the inaugural event in 2012 by four strokes for her eighth win on the LPGA Tour.^[1]

In 2022, the tournament moved to the Hoakalei Country Club in ʻEwa Beach, Hawaii.^[2][3]

To accommodate Korean television, the tournament begins on Wednesday and concludes on Saturday.

Tournament names

• 2012–2014: LPGA Lotte Championship Presented by J Golf
• 2015: LPGA Lotte Championship Presented by Hershey
• 2016–2018: Lotte Championship Presented by Hershey
• 2019–2021: Lotte Championship
• 2022–present: Lotte Championship Presented by Hoakalei

Winners

Year	Date	Venue	Winner	Winning score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Purse ($)	Winner's share ($)
2024	Nov 9	Hoakalei CC	Kim A-lim	66-69-67-68=270	−18	2 strokes	Nataliya Guseva	3,000,000	450,000
2023	Apr 15	Hoakalei CC	Grace Kim	71-67-70-68=276	−12	Playoff	Yu Liu Sung Yu-jin	2,000,000	300,000
2022	Apr 16	Hoakalei CC	Kim Hyo-joo	67-67-72-71=277	−11	2 strokes	Hinako Shibuno	2,000,000	300,000
2021	Apr 17	Kapolei GC	Lydia Ko	67-63-65-65=260	−28	7 strokes	Inbee Park Kim Sei-young Leona Maguire Nelly Korda	2,000,000	300,000
2020: Canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2019	Apr 20	Ko Olina GC	Brooke Henderson (2)	65-68-69-70=272	−16	4 strokes	Ji Eun-hee	2,000,000	300,000
2018	Apr 14	Ko Olina GC	Brooke Henderson	68-66-73-69=276	−12	4 strokes	Azahara Muñoz	2,000,000	300,000
2017	Apr 15	Ko Olina GC	Cristie Kerr	71-69-62-66=268	−20	3 strokes	Chun In-gee Jang Su-yeon Lydia Ko	2,000,000	300,000
2016	Apr 16	Ko Olina GC	Minjee Lee	68-66-74-64=272	−16	1 stroke	Katie Burnett Chun In-gee	1,800,000	270,000
2015	Apr 18	Ko Olina GC	Kim Sei-young	67-67-70-73=277	−11	Playoff	Inbee Park	1,800,000	270,000
2014	Apr 19	Ko Olina GC	Michelle Wie	70-67-70-67=274	−14	2 strokes	Angela Stanford	1,700,000	255,000
2013	Apr 20	Ko Olina GC	Suzann Pettersen	65-69-68-67=269	−19	Playoff	Lizette Salas	1,700,000	255,000
2012	Apr 21	Ko Olina GC	Ai Miyazato	71-65-70-70=276	−12	4 strokes	Meena Lee Azahara Muñoz	1,700,000	255,000

Tournament records

Year	Player	Score	Round
2013	Lizette Salas	62 (−10)	4th
2017	Cristie Kerr	62 (−10)	3rd