Top- rated Nelly Korda, attempting to win her 8th LPGA title of the period, will certainly be the favored when the season-ending Tour Championship starts on Thursday.
The 26-year-old American has actually currently secured her place as LPGA Player of the Year and she can damage the one-season LPGA jackpots document in the $11 million occasion at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida.
“It has been a crazy year,” Korda claimed. “I’m grateful for all of it. I’m grateful for the highs, grateful for the lows, grateful to be doing what I love in front of people hopefully inspiring the next generation.”
The leading 60 LPGA gamers in the period factors chase after received the period ending in Southwest Florida.
Korda had 8 victories for her LPGA profession heading right into this period and swiftly cushioned that overall by winning January’s Drive On Championship in her home town of Bradenton, Florida.
She included the Pak Se- ri and Ford champions in March and the LPGA Match Play and Chevron Championship, her 2nd significant win, in April.
Korda caught the Americas Open in May and recently’s Annika crown to get to $4,164,430 in cash prize this period and can establish a brand-new LPGA one-season mark with a top-five surface today.
Mexico’s Lorena Ochoa was one of the most current gamer to catch 8 LPGA titles in a project, doing so in 2007, and she established an LPGA cash prize document of $4,364,994 that year.
Her document will certainly be surpassed by whoever catches today’s $4 million leading reward, increased from in 2015, and Korda will certainly pass Ochoa’s mark with a top-five surface, something she has actually handled 3 times at Tiburon.
A neck injury sidelined Korda for almost 2 months prior to she returned recently and won the Annika title, yet the break provided Korda time to review an impressive year.
“I’ve had an extended period at home I’ve definitely reminisced a little bit about the season, but I’ve also been motivated to finish the year strong,” she claimed.
“It’s really tough to win out here against such great players. The caliber of players is really high. It’s really nice to know that all the hard work that I put in with my team is paying off.”
– Jeeno will not win Vare –
Thailand’s Jeeno Thitikul is readied to have the LPGA’s least expensive racking up standard, currently on 69.54, yet she will not win the Vare Trophy generally provided to that analytical period leader.
Seventh- rated Jeeno, that won in 2015’s Vare on 69.53, will certainly not do with sufficient rounds to get to the minimal 70 to get approved for the honor, getting in the ending with 62 rounds, 2 greater than Korda, that places 2nd to Jeeno in racking up standard on 69.66.
“I just keep it on my stats that it’s two years in a row that I have (low) scoring average, even if I’m going to lift the trophy or not,” Jeeno claimed. “But it’s a really good number and really good stat.”
The leading competitors for the Vare Trophy today are South Korea’s Ryu Hae- worked on 69.98 and Japan’s Ayaka Furue on 70.05.
South Korea’s Amy Yang is the safeguarding champ, having actually won by 3 strokes in 2015.
Japan’s Mao Saigo leads the LPGA Rookie of the Year race with South Korea’s Im Jin- hee 66 factors adrift. Im requires a top-three do with Saigo outside the 40 to surpass her for the honor.
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