Ko Jin-young (28, Solaire) returns to world No. 1 and challenges the US Women’s Professional Golf (LPGA) Tour for two consecutive victories and the first champion in her first tournament.
Ko Jin-young will participate in the Mizuho Americas Open (total prize money of $2.75 million) to be held at Liberty National Golf Club (par 71, 6656 yards) in Jersey City, New Jersey, for four days from June 2 (Korean time).
It is the first tournament he has participated in since he returned to the world rankings after 7 months of absence last week after a brief slump due to a wrist injury at the end of last year, and it is also a new event this year. After winning the HSBC World Championship in March, he announced a revival by winning a thrilling come-from-behind victory at the Cognizant Founders Cup on the 15th after extra time. In the first half of this year alone, with two wins, he rose to first place in average at-bats, player of the year, and second place in prize money ($11,334,148).
Ko Jin-young did not participate in the Bank of Hope match play after the Founders Cup and took a break to prepare for this tournament. When I felt that my swing, which I had perfected last winter, was disorganized, I called Siwoo Lee, my swing coach in Korea, urgently. In recent matches, due to poor contact with the ball, some mistakes such as cut shots were made, and he was unable to produce good results on wedge shots, so he and coach Lee started preparing for major tournaments with intensive training to correct them.
After participating in this tournament and the Shoprite Classic, she plans to take a short break and compete in all four major tournaments by August, including the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, US Women’s Open, Evian Championship, and AIG Women’s Open.
Ko Jin-young, who has never won the US Women’s Open, said in an interview after winning the Founders Cup, “I hope to win more this year. She will do her best,” she said, expressing her determination to run again.
In this competition, including Ko Jin-young, Yoo Hae-ran, Kim Se-young (30, Mediheal), Annarin (27, Mediheal), Kim A-rin (28, Hanwha Q Cells), Ji Eun-hee (37, Hanwha Q Cells), Lee Jung-eun 6 (27, Daebang Engineering & Construction) ), Choi Woon-jeong (33, Volvik), Yang Hee-young (34, Woori Financial Group), and Shin Ji-eun (32, Hanwha Q Cells).
While Nellie Korda (USA), who lost first place to Ko Jin-young, was absent due to back pain, Lydia Ko (New Zealand), 4th in the world, Lilia Boo (USA), 5th Lee Min-jee (Australia), and Ataya Titikkun (6th) Thailand) and other top-ranked players compete for the spot as the first champion.
It is also her professional stage debut match for Chinese-American Rose Zhang (20, USA), the strongest female golf amateur. Rose Jang, who has a status comparable to Lydia Ko and Tiger Woods in the amateur golf world, is drawing extraordinary attention to what kind of performance she will perform in her professional debut match.토토사이트
A member of Stanford University in the U.S., she has maintained her No. 1 ranking in the amateur women’s golf world rankings for 141 consecutive weeks since September 2020, easily surpassing Lydia Ko’s previous record of 130 weeks. She also won 12 of the 20 tournaments, breaking the record for wins (11) held by Tiger Woods, a ‘senior’ from the same university.