Surprise U.S. Women’s Open champ to join LPGA Tour in 2021 December 21, 2020 Kim A-lim, who shocked the golfing world by winning the oldest LPGA major championship earlier this month, will take her talent to America next year. The reigning U.S. Women’s Open champion announced on Monday that she will be joining the LPGA full-time starting in 2021. The 25-year-old had been playing on the Korea LPGA (KLPGA) Tour since 2016. Kim became one of the tour’s best Cinderella stories of 2020 when she captured the U.S. Women’s Open in Houston on Dec. 14. She rallied from a five-stroke deficit to finish at three-under 281, holding off world No. 1 Ko Jin-young by one shot.