For the first time in 13 years, the LPGA tournament schedule is set to begin in January, and the 2014 slate couldn’t get started in a better place, amid an inviting tropical climate and great venue that produced a memorable finish seven months ago.

Though a young tournament, the second-annual Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic gets the honor of serving as the Tour’s season-opening event when it returns to the Ocean Club Golf Course at Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas, Jan. 20-26, 2014. The tournament, won in an exciting 36-hole event by Ilhee Lee, who claimed her first professional title, is moving from late May to the head of the LPGA schedule just before the traditional February Asia-Pacific Swing.

This is an excerpt from PureSilk Bahamas LPGA Classic as it appeared on January 7, 2014. For updates or to read the current version of this post in its entirety, please click here.

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