A preview of the 70th KPMG Women’s PGA Championship

The GIST: The world’s best women’s golfers are taking over the Pacific Northwest as the 70th KPMG Women’s PGA Championship — the third of five LPGA majors — tees off from the Sahalee Country Club tomorrow with even more than the $10.4M purse on the line.

The context: The Olympic qualification period closes after this event, so players have one last chance to compete for a spot in the coveted 60-player field heading to Paris next month. The International Golf Federation uses the official world golf rankings to determine Olympics eligibility and the top 15 automatically book their tickets.

• That means we’ll definitely be seeing world No. 1 Nelly Korda and her group, defending KPMG Women’s PGA champion world No. 3 Ruoning Yin and world No. 5 Hannah Green in Paris. Question is, who else will be joining them?

More players to watch: World No. 20 Japan’s Ayaka Furue leads the LPGA with eight top-10 finishes this season, and a strong showing this weekend could land her the nation’s second Olympic spot, where she would join two-time U.S. Women’s Open winner and world No. 6 Yuka Saso.

• As for World No. 13 Canadian Brooke Henderson, the stars are aligning for the 2016 Women’s PGA champion, who has her sights set on running it back on the same course where she won her maiden major eight years ago. Tee it up.