Jinyoung Ko wins 3 seasons in 14 consecutive rounds with 60 at-bats
Jinyoung Ko posing with the winning trophy. [사진=LPGA]
[헤럴드경제 스포츠팀=박건태 기자] Jin-young Ko (26) achieved her 10th victories on the American Women’s Professional Golf (LPGA) Tour by winning the ‘Wire to Wire’ in the Cognitive Founders Cup (total prize money of 3 million dollars).
On the 11th (Korea time), Jinyoung Ko reduced 5 more shots to 6 birdies and 1 bogey in the final game of the tournament held at the Mountain Ridge Country Club (par 71, 6612 yards) in West Caldwell, New Jersey, USA, resulting in a final total of 18 under par 266 2 Wii Caroline Mason (Germany) took the title by four strokes.
Jinyoung Ko said, “It’s a really happy win. Because we played a game that was very disappointing last week, there was a lot of pressure that I would be able to overcome it and overcome it well this week.” “I’ve won 10 each in the United States, and it’s an honor to be able to win my 20th win in this meaningful Founders’ Cup, in a competition where I’m the defending champion,” he said.
With this win, Jin-Young Ko won the third win of the season following the VOA Classic in July and the Cambia Portland Classic in September. In addition, he won a total of 10 victories on the tour by winning a prize of 450,000 dollars (about 530 million won). Among Korean players, she is the fifth player to record double-digit wins on the LPGA Tour after Se-ri Park (25 wins), In-bi Park (21 wins), Se-young Kim (12 wins) and Ji-ae Shin (11 wins).
Jinyoung Ko is on a high streak of 60 at-bats for 14 consecutive rounds. Starting with hitting 69 in the fourth round of the Amundi Evian Championship in July, he has recorded 14 consecutive at-bats in his 60s until this tournament, breaking the record with the most at-bats in his 60s held by Anika Sorenstam (Sweden) for 16 years. did it side by side
Sorenstam broke the record in 2005 with 10 wins in a single season. After winning the championship, Jinyoung Ko said, “I have an opportunity to break Sorenstam’s record.
Jin-young Ko’s victory marked Korea’s 199th win on the LPGA Tour. Jinyoung Ko’s momentum is great, and it is interesting to see whether he will achieve 200 wins in the BMW Ladies Championship to be held in Busan for four days from the 21st.
Jinyoung Ko took the lead by driving an 8-under par on the first day of the tournament, and after a solo run that never gave up the lead, she climbed to the top. Jinyoung Ko, who entered the final round with a lead of four strokes, had no player chasing by less than three strokes on the last day. With this win, Jin-young Ko and Nelly Corda (USA) shared 3 wins in the season to take the lead in multiple wins, starting to retake the world No. 1 ranking. Koda hit 73 that day, finishing tied for 19th.
Lee Jeong-eun 6 (25) cut four strokes and tied for fourth with a final total of 10 under par 274. Arim Kim (26) and Soyeon Yoo (31) tied for sixth place with a final total of 9-under 275.
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