Who is playing at the 2024 Cognizant Founders Cup? Full field explored

Modified May 06, 2024 14:50 GMT

Cognizant Founders Cup - Final Round — Jin Young Ko, 2023 Cognizant Founders Cup (Image via Getty)

The 2024 Cognizant Founders Cup, the LPGA's eleventh tournament of the year, will be played from May 9 to 12 at Upper Montclair Country Club in New Jersey. The tournament has a purse of $3 million and awards 500 Race to the CME Globe Points.

The Rolex Women's World Golf Rankings No. 1 Nelly Korda will participate in the 2024 Cognizant Founders Cup to seek her sixth consecutive LPGA Tour title of the season.

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Three-time Cognizant Founders Cup winner and defending champion Jin Young Ko from South Korea will be seeking a back-to-back win at the event after wins in 2023, 2021, and 2019. The 2024 JM Eagle LA Championship winner Hannah Green will join Korda in the fight for the top of the leaderboard.

The 2024 Cognizant Founders Cup field of 144 players has three Olympic medalists - Nelly Korda, Mone Inami, and Lydia Ko - along with 29 LPGA Major winners. India's Olympian Aditi Ashok will seek her maiden LPGA Tour title at the tournament.

Three qualifying spots in the Cognizant Founders Cup field are open with two spots going to the top two players at the Local Qualifying and one spot going to the winner of the 18-hole John Shippen Cognizant Cup tournament.