Each week, GolfChannel.com takes a look back at the week in golf. Here's what's weighing on our writers' minds.
On American irrelevance in women's golf:
The American challenge continues in women’s golf. For the first time since the Race to the CME Globe was created, no American will be eligible to win the $1 million jackpot when the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship begins in Naples, Fla, in two weeks.
You have to be among the top nine in the CME Globe standings to have a chance at the jackpot, and there isn’t an American among the top nine.