Tittykun, after Lydia Go, is the second ‘Top 10 Site in the World 1’ in history.
Jin-young Ko (27) came down from No. 1 in women’s golf for the first time in 9 months.
Jinyoung Ko recorded 7.09 points in the world ranking on October 31, and was second by 0.04 points behind Ataya Titikun (Thailand, 7.13 points).
Jinyoung Ko, who defeated Nelly Corda (USA) in the January 31 rankings and regained the world No. 1 position in about 3 months, came back down after 9 months.
The world ranking is calculated based on the results of the competitions in the last two years.
Weightage is given to recent tournaments and major tournaments.
There was no LPGA Tour event last week, but Jin-Young Ko recently missed out due to injury and was unable to perform well in the tournaments she entered, giving her the world No.
Jinyoung Ko suffered a ‘sustained fracture’ for the first time since entering the LPGA tour at the AIG Women’s Open and CP Open in August, and then took a break due to a wrist injury.
On the 20th of last month, she played a return match in the LPGA Tour BMW Women’s Championship held at Oak Valley Country Club in Wonju, Gangwon-do, but finished at the bottom of the 78 players with a 15-over-par 159 for two days, and went out before the third round.
Her most recent win was the HSBC Women’s World Championship in March, her first LPGA Tour event of the season, and she has been in the top 10 three times since then.
On the other hand, Titikun, who made her debut on the LPGA tour this season, has been gaining momentum with top-10 rankings, including one win in five recent tournaments.
After winning Rookie of the Year and the Grand Prize twice on the Women’s European Professional Golf Tour (LET) last year, the tee shot up the world ranks by reaching the top 10 14 times out of 24 tournaments, including two wins on the LPGA Tour this season.
In his first world ranking of the year, he was in 20th place.
He had the opportunity to claim world number one in the BMW Championship at the recent event, which Jin-young Ko did not relinquish, but he finished sixth, retaining his second world position with a short break before taking the top spot. this week. .
Born in February 2003, 19-year-old Titikun became the second youngest player in history to reach No.
Lydia Ko and Titikun were the only players to reach the top of the world rankings before turning 20.
In addition, Titikun is the second Thai player in history after Eriya Chutanukan, and the second in history as a rookie on the LPGA Tour after Park Seong-hyun (29) in 2017.
After Titikun and Ko Jin-young, Lydia Ko ran third, while Koda and Lee Min-ji (Australia) kept fourth and fifth place, respectively.
Jeon In-ji (28) retained 8th place, and Kim Hyo-joo (27) was pushed down one place to 10th.
Kim Se-young (29) is 13th, Park Min-ji (24) is 17th, Choi Hye-jin (23) is 19th, and Park In-bi (34) is 23rd.
So-mi Lee (23), who won the SK Networks and Seoul Economy Ladies Classic on the Korean Women’s Professional Golf tour (KLPGA), which ended on the 30th of last month, was ranked 57th, jumping 11 places from last week.
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