S-9: Winner of 2024 AIG Women's British Open
S-10: Top 30 points leaders in the 2024 LPGA Race to the CME Globe
S-11: Winners of individual LPGA co-sponsored events, whose victories are considered official and receive a full point allocation for the Race to the CME Globe, from the conclusion of the 2024 U.S. Women’s Open Championship to the initiation of the 2025 U.S. Women’s Open Championship.
S-16: From the 2025 LPGA Race to CME Globe, the top 10 point leaders through the close of entries on April 2, 2025
S-17: Top 75 points leaders in the finalized Week 12 Rolex Women's Rankings on March 24
S-19: Winner of the 2024 Olympic Gold Medal

The former World No. 1 from New Zealand finally earned enough points to become a member of the LPGA's Hall of Fame with her gold-medal performance in the 2024 Olympics in Paris, then continued her magical 2024 campaign by claiming the AIG Women's Open on the Old Course at St. Andrews for her third major championship. Ko capped the year with a win in the Kroger Queen City Championship for her 30th worldwide victory and 22nd on the LPGA Tour. Win No. 23 came earlier this spring on the first Sunday in March when she bested Ayaka Furue and Jeeno Thitikul by four strokes to capture the HSBC Women's World Championship in Singapore. Ko announced herself to the world as a young teen, rising to No. 1 in the Women's World Amateur Golf Ranking and winning the LPGA Tour's CN Canadian Women's Open in 2012 as a 15-year-old amateur. She would repeat as champion again in 2013 as an amateur. She spent 130 weeks atop the WAGR before turning pro in October 2013. Ko, who won the 2012 U.S. Women's Amateur and reached the semifinals of the 2012 U.S. Girls' Junior, later captured the 2015 Evian Championship for her first major. She also won the 2016 ANA Inspiration. Ko has contended in a number of U.S. Women's Open, notably the 2016 championship at CordeValle when she held the 54-hole lead, only to struggle on Sunday and finish T-3. She also finished fifth in 2022 at Pine Needles. Ko was the low amateur in the 2012 championship at Blackwolf Run.

Ko stormed onto the world stage as a teenager, becoming No. 1 in the Rolex Rankings at 17 years, 9 months and 9 days, the youngest to achieve that status. When she won the 2015 Evian Championship, she became the youngest woman to win a major championship. She captured her second major in 2016 at the ANA Inspiration (now Chevron Championship). Ko had been the No. 1 player in the Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking for 130 weeks when she turned pro in October 2013. By then, she had already captured the 2012 U.S. Women’s Amateur, been a semifinalist in the 2012 U.S. Girls’ Junior and low amateur in the U.S. Women’s Open (2012). Ko was the low individual scorer in the 2012 Women’s World Amateur Team Championship while representing New Zealand. Ko twice won the CN Canadian Women’s Open (2012 and 2013) as an amateur, and won the event for a third time in 2015. She ended a three-year victory drought in April 2021 when she claimed the LOTTE Championship in Hawaii. She won again in 2022 at the Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio, and came within one victory of the LPGA Hall of Fame with her triumph earlier this year at the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions in Florida. This will be her 13th start in the U.S. Women’s Open, with a best finish of T-3 in 2016 at CordeValle.