Yearly Sand Save Leaders on the LPGA Tour
The list goes back to 1992, when the LPGA Tour first began tracking this stat. But if sand saves are a measure of one's ability to get up-and-down from greenside bunkers, that raises the question: What is an up-and-down? That term means that it takes the golfer no more than two strokes to get out of the bunker and into the hole.
The List: LPGA Tour Sand Save Leaders
The number listed is the percentage of time a golfer was in a bunker next to the putting green, and got up-and-down from there. (Whether the up-and-down resulted in a par, bogey or any other score is irrelevant in keeping this stat. Up out of the bunker and down into the hole — two strokes — is what is being measured.)
2024 — Yuna Nishimura, 62.24 percent
2023 — Mi Hyang Lee, 63.89%
2022 — Lydia Ko, 66.25%
2021 — Yuka Saso, 63.64%
2020 — Minjee Lee, 69.14%
2019 — So Yeon Ryu, 62.50%
2018 — Jenny Shin, 63.74%
2017 — Lexi Thompson, 70.37%
2016 — Jenny Shin, 66.67%
2015 — Lydia Ko, 59.09%
2014 — Karrie Webb, 57.47%
2013 — Meaghan Francella, 62.22%
2012 — Leta Lindley, 66.67%
2011 — Momoko Ueda, 68.00%
2010 — Na Yeon Choi, 67.30%
2009 — Meg Mallon, 56.50
2008 — Russy Gulyanamitta, 60.00%
2007 — Michelle Ellis, 55.00%
2006 — Kim Williams, 62.20%
2005 — Angela Jerman-Ormsby, 60.00%
2004 — Laurie Rinker, 55.60%
2003 — Soo-Yun Kang, 56.10%
2002 — Vicki Goetze-Ackerman, 56.80%
2001 — Karen Pearce, 63.10%
2000 — Alison Nicholas, 64.50%
1999 — Mi Hyun Kim, 58.20%
1998 — Lisa Walters, 62.20%
1997 — Caroline Pierce McMillan, 56.70%
1996 — Caroline Pierce McMillan, 57.70%
1995 — Caroline Pierce McMillan, 60.20%
1994 — Beth Daniel, 58.90%
1993 — Jayne Thobois, 58.50%
1992 — Brandie Burton, 61.00%
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