Canada's Maddie Szeryk looks to keep LPGA Tour status heading into season's final full event

Maddie Szeryk feels like her game has turned a corner the last couple of weeks.

And that feeling has come at a good time as she prepares to tee it up at the final full-field event of the LPGA Tour's 2023 schedule.

Szeryk, of London, Ont., currently sits 99th in the Race to CME Globe, the LPGA Tour's season-long points list. The top 100 after this week's event — The Annika at Pelican Golf Club — will keep their LPGA Tour status for 2024.

Szeryk is currently 2.6 points ahead of Spain's Azahara Munoz at No. 100.

"It's hard to make it bigger than it is, like, 'Oh, I have to play amazing.' At the end of the day, I'm going to try to play my best and play as well as I can and wherever I end up is where I end up," Szeryk said by phone from Belleair, Fla.

"You don't know how the other girls are going to play. We could all finish top 10 and it could be super close. Or we could finish all over the board. I can only do my part and play as well as I can and see where I end up at the end of the week."

Szeryk is in her second full year on the LPGA Tour. Her best result of the season came in her first event, the LPGA Drive On Championship in March, where she finished tied for seventh.

The 27-year-old struggled through the summer, missing six of seven cuts from July until September. But she's found the weekend in her last two tournaments and finished in a tie for 26th last month at the LPGA Shanghai tournament — her best result on tour in three months.

"Everyone gets on these little runs and it's like, 'OK, any time now would be great (to turn things around)," Szeryk said. "I felt like a lot of those weeks I was close. I could see things were getting a little closer and then the last few weeks it finally clicked."

Szeryk says her comfort