Jeremy Schilling

LPGA player poised to win $1 million Aon bonus while on maternity leave ***** Several weeks ago, Ryann O’Toole woke up at 3:45 a.m. to the sound of her dog Louie throwing up. Worried, she decided to take him in see the emergency vet. As she was getting ready O’Toole, pregnant with her first child, started to experience stomach cramps. The cramps came in waves and left her doubled over in pain. At the vet’s office, she called her wife, who was in Germany for work, and asked her to phone a friend to come take over at the vet’s office. Meanwhile, another friend met O’Toole at the emergency room as she checked in with early contractions. O’Toole, 39, was six months pregnant at the time. “The doctor shut me down,” she said. No golf, no workouts. She was released after 36 hours and flew to Hawaii the next week to enjoy a vacation at the condo she’d already booked and paid for during the LPGA's Lotte Championship. Mercifully, O’Toole hasn’t had any contractions since that scare and has been cleared for light activity. Her main job these past few weeks has been keeping tabs on Jeeno Thitikul – the only woman standing between her and $1 million. O’Toole has been on a $1 million watch since she began maternity leave following the FM Championship in late August. As the leader of the Aon Risk Reward Challenge, it made more sense to sit on her lead as golf got tougher further along in her pregnancy. While O’Toole hasn’t technically clinched the race, Jeeno Thitikul needs two double eagles in her next event, the Toto Japan Classic, to win it for a second time. (At this point, Thitikul hasn’t signed up for The Annika driven by Gainbridge at Pelican, the final event before the cutoff. The deadline to sign up is today at 5 p.m. ET) It's safe for O’Toole to start thinking about how she might invest the biggest check of her career. “It’s like winning three tournaments or a major,” she gushed. “It’s unbelievable.” Full story below: