A fitter and stronger Grace Kim intends to use a reduced schedule to return to the winner's circle in 2025, starting with this week's Honda LPGA Thailand at Siam Country Club.

One of three Aussies teeing it up in Thailand, Kim won in her rookie season in 2023 but struggled physically last year in a gruelling 28-event schedule.

Prioritising additional time in the gym over the first two events of the season is designed to put the 24-year-old in position for further wins in 2025.

“I played 30 events, which was a lot, and that wasn’t always the plan,” Kim said of a 2024 season in which she had three top-10s and finished 46th in the Race to CME Globe ranking.

“I just wanted to get the rankings up, the points up and everything but this year the plan’s a little bit different.

“We’re playing less events and hopefully spending more time at home, using those development blocks to hopefully have better results in less events.”

Kim will play this week and the HSBC Women's World Championship in Singapore next week before returning to Australia to headline the WPGA Championship at Sanctuary Cove Golf and Country Club on the Gold Coast.

Co-sanctioned with the Ladies European Tour, the WPGA Championship will be played from March 6-9 as the centrepiece of the Gold Coast Festival of Golf.

Round 1 tee times AEDT

LPGA Tour
Honda LPGA Thailand
Siam Country Club (Old Cse), Chonburi, Thailand
11:50am*         Gabriela Ruffels
11:57am          Grace Kim
12:14pm*         Stephanie Kyriacou

Recent champion: Patty Tavatanakit
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prize money: $US1.7 million
TV times: Live 2pm-7pm Thursday, Friday on Fox Sports 503; Live 2:30pm-7:30pm Saturday, Sunday on Fox Sports 507 and Kayo.

* Starting from 10th tee