2024-06-25 00:35:23
First Korean participant to win within the sixteenth competitors of the season
6 wins on the LPGA tour… Paris Olympics hopeful
Yang Hee-young gained the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship (complete prize cash of $10.4 million), a serious event on the LPGA Tour, changing into the primary Korean participant to win this season.
Yang Hee-young hit a good par 72 with 5 birdies, 1 double bogey, and three bogeys within the ultimate 4th spherical of the event held on the Sahalee Nation Membership (par 72) in Seomamish, Washington, USA on the twenty fourth (Korean time).
Consequently, she recorded a ultimate complete of seven below par, 281 strokes, and gained by three strokes over Jinyoung Ko, Lilia Bu (USA), and Miyu Yamashita (Japan, 4 below par, 284 strokes), who had been tied for second place.
Heeyoung Yang, who achieved her sixth win on the LPGA Tour in 7 months because the CME Group Tour Championship final November, skilled the enjoyment of being on the high of a serious event for the primary time in her life.
Her earlier greatest lead to a serious was ending second on the US Ladies’s Open in 2012 and 2015.
Moreover, with this win, the potential for qualifying for the 2024 Paris Olympics, which opens in July, has elevated. Yang Hee-young, who’s presently ranked twenty fifth within the girls’s golf world rankings, is more likely to transfer into the highest 15 by successful this event.
Yang Hee-young is aiming to take part within the Olympics for the second time in her life, following the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
The ladies’s golf competitors on the Paris Olympics will decide the gamers primarily based on the world rankings as of the twenty fourth after the competitors ends.
A rustic can have as much as 4 gamers within the high 15 on the earth rankings, and presently, Korea has two gamers within the high 15: Ko Jin-young, ranked seventh, and Kim Hyo-ju, ranked twelfth.
This win by Yang Hee-young, born in 1989, broke the winless streak of Korean gamers that had lasted for 15 tournaments because the LPGA tour opened within the 2024 season.
The final main championship gained by a Korean participant was earlier than this event in 2022.
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2024-06-25 00:35:23