Winless in four years on the world’s most lucrative women golf circuit, Rosales has recorded four top 10 finishes in 16 tournaments so far, the last a joint second in the Giant Eagle LPGA Classic in June when she lost the crown to Rachel Teske in a four-player playoff.
After that near-victory where she banked a $69,945 paycheck, the 24-year-old Rosales struggled in her next tournaments with a joint 12th-place effort in the recent Sybase Big Apple Classic in New York her best so far.
Last week, the five-time RP Ladies Open champion settled for 35th place in the Evian Masters, a rather uninspiring stint heading to a major championship this week — the Weetabix Women’s British Open in England.
But Rosales made a good account of herself in last year’s edition of one of LPGA Tour’s majors where she tied for fourth place. She actually led the star-studded field in the third round when she fired a career-best 65 only to succumb to final round pressure and settled for fourth.
On the other hand, Fil-Am Dorothy Delasin, a three-leg winner on the tour but who has been on a slump in a long while, is ranked 35th with $217,356 earnings, also in 16 tournaments.
Meanwhile, Swede ace Annika Sorenstam tows the field with $1,242,742 in winnings followed by South Korean Grace Park ($909,446), Juli Inkster ($888,897), Se Ri Pak ($801,658) and Lorena Ochoa ($690,783) in that order.