New Zealander Lydia Ko claimed her third triumph on the LPGA Tour this 12 months with victory within the CME Group Tour Championship; the 25-year-old overtook Nelly Korda to return to the No 1 spot for the primary time since June 2017
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Lydia Ko has returned to the No 1 spot within the Ladies’s World Golf Rankings
Lydia Ko moved up one spot to eclipse Nelly Korda because the No 1 participant within the Rolex Ladies’s World Golf Rankings on Monday.
That is the third time Ko, who notched three LPGA Tour victories and 9 different top-five finishes in 2022, has reached the highest spot.
Ko additionally held the No 1 place from February 2 to June 14, 2015, and from October 2015 to June 2017, and is now in her a hundred and fifth week in whole because the highest-ranked participant on the planet.
“I am very grateful to be world No 1 once more,” Ko stated. “To be trustworthy, I wasn’t positive if I would ever be again right here once more.”
The New Zealander was simply 17 when she ascended to the highest spot seven years in the past and have become the youngest participant, male or feminine, to achieve No 1 on the planet.
She is at present fifth in most weeks spent on the summit of the rankings, one shy of Inbee Park’s 106 weeks and 4 in need of Yani Tseng’s 109 weeks.
Lorena Ochoa’s 158 weeks at world No 1 is probably the most within the historical past of the Ladies’s World Golf Rankings, adopted by Jin Younger Ko’s 152 weeks.
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Highlights from spherical 4 of the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship on the LPGA in Florida
Amongst her successes this 12 months, Ko claimed the most important first-place prize within the historical past of ladies’s golf of $2m for profitable the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship. Her different triumphs got here within the Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio and the BMW Women Championship.
The 25-year-old, who has gained 19 LPGA Tour titles, was named Race to the CME Globe champion and Rolex Participant of the Yr for the second time, and in addition took house the Vare Trophy, awarded to the participant with the season’s lowest scoring common, for the second straight 12 months.
Ko is simply two factors away from being inducted into the LPGA Corridor of Fame too, ending the 12 months with 25 factors in the direction of the required whole.
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