2011 CME Group Titleholders

2011 CME Group Titleholders

Tournament information
Dates	November 17–20, 2011
Location	Orlando, Florida
Course(s)	Grand Cypress Golf Club, North and South Courses
Tour(s)	LPGA Tour
Statistics
Par	72
Length	6,518 yards (5,960 m)
Field	59 players
Cut	none
Prize fund	$1.5 million
Winner's share	$500,000
Champion
Hee Young Park
279 (−9)
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The 2011 CME Group Titleholders was the first CME Group Titleholders, a women's professional golf tournament and the season-ending event on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. It was played November 17–20, 2011 at the Grand Cypress Golf Club in Orlando, Florida.

The top three finishers who were LPGA members from each official LPGA tournament, not otherwise qualified, earned a spot in the Titleholders. If tied, the player with the lower final round score qualified.^[1]

South Korean Hee Young Park won by two strokes over Sandra Gal of Germany and Paula Creamer of the United States.

Qualifiers[]

The following table shows the three qualifiers for the Titleholders from each tournament.

Dates	Tournament	1st Qualifier	2nd Qualifier	3rd Qualifier
Feb 20	Honda LPGA Thailand	Yani Tseng (Win)	Michelle Wie (2nd)	Karrie Webb (T3)
Feb 27	HSBC Women's Champions	Sun Young Yoo (4th)	Morgan Pressel (5th)	Na Yeon Choi (6th)
Mar 20	RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup	Paula Creamer (T2)	Brittany Lincicome (T2)	Cristie Kerr (4th)
Mar 27	Kia Classic	Sandra Gal (Win)	Jiyai Shin (2nd)	In-Kyung Kim (T3)
Apr 3	Kraft Nabisco Championship	Stacy Lewis (Win)	(T3)	Angela Stanford (T3)
May 1	Avnet LPGA Classic	Maria Hjorth (Win)	Song-Hee Kim (2nd)	Suzann Pettersen (T3)
May 22	Sybase Match Play Championship	Ai Miyazato (T5)	Sophie Gustafson (T5)	Julieta Granada (T9)
Jun 5	ShopRite LPGA Classic	Catriona Matthew (4th)	Anna Nordqvist (T5)	Brittany Lang (T8)
Jun 12	LPGA State Farm Classic	Se Ri Pak (T5)	(T5)	Wendy Ward (7th)
Jun 26	Wegmans LPGA Championship	Meena Lee (T6)	Mika Miyazato (T8)	Azahara Muñoz (T8)
Jul 10	U.S. Women's Open	So Yeon Ryu (Win)	Hee Kyung Seo (2nd)	Inbee Park (T6)
Jul 24	Evian Masters	Caroline Hedwall (T12)	Amy Yang (T14)	Paige Mackenzie (T21)
Jul 31	Ricoh Women's British Open	Dewi Claire Schreefel (T11)	Candie Kung (T14)	Karen Stupples (T22)
Aug 21	Safeway Classic	Hee Young Park (3rd)	Vicky Hurst (T5)	Ryann O'Toole (T5)
Aug 28	CN Canadian Women's Open	Hee-Won Han (T6)	Jenny Shin (T6)	Jennifer Johnson (T12)
Sep 11	Walmart NW Arkansas Championship	Amy Hung (T5)	Belén Mozo (T5)	Mi Hyun Kim (T10)
Sep 18	Navistar LPGA Classic	Lexi Thompson (Win)	Tiffany Joh (2nd)	Giulia Sergas (T11)
Oct 9	LPGA Hana Bank Championship	Jimin Kang (T3)	Chella Choi (T7)	Shanshan Feng (T13)
Oct 16	Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia	Christel Boeljon (T9)	Amanda Blumenherst (T9)	Mina Harigae (T23)
Oct 23	Sunrise LPGA Taiwan Championship	Pat Hurst (T16)	(T16)	Grace Park (T24)
Nov 6	Mizuno Classic	Momoko Ueda (Win)	Pornanong Phatlum (T14)	Christina Kim (T18)
Nov 13	Lorena Ochoa Invitational	Juli Inkster (T4)	Natalie Gulbis (T16)	Beatriz Recari (33rd)

Note: The following qualifiers did not play in the event: Shanshan Feng, Juli Inkster, Grace Park, Inbee Park, So Yeon Ryu, Jiyai Shin, Momoko Ueda.^[2]

Final leaderboard[]

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Hee Young Park	South Korea	71-69-69-70=279	–9	500,000
T2	Paula Creamer	United States	69-71-71-70=281	–7	95,516
	Sandra Gal	Germany	69-69-71-72=281
T4	Na Yeon Choi	South Korea	66-71-75-70=282	–6	56,070
	Suzann Pettersen	Norway	73-69-68-72=282
T6	Cristie Kerr	United States	68-76-71-71=286	–2	35,057
	Yani Tseng	Taiwan	70-76-66-74=286
	Michelle Wie	United States	71-73-72-70=286
9	Maria Hjorth	Sweden	68-78-73-68=287	–1	26,975
T10	I.K. Kim	South Korea	72-71-71-74=288	E	23,640
	Se Ri Pak	South Korea	72-74-72-70=288

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