Korean Feminine Golfers Dominate Paris Olympics {Qualifications} with Three Gamers in High Rankings

Three Korean feminine golfers participated… 3 Individuals

Yang Hee-young, who received the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship, a significant event 16 years after her LPGA debut, has booked a ticket to the Paris Olympics.

Yang Hee-young rose straight to fifth within the girls’s golf world rankings introduced on the twenty fifth (Korean time), up 20 locations from twenty fifth the earlier week, and certified for the Olympics on the minute of final. Yang Hee-young wore the Taegeuk image for the primary time in eight years because the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

Ko Jin-young (third) and Kim Hyo-ju (thirteenth), the highest-ranked Korean gamers, may even go to Paris. They’ll take part in successive video games after the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Based mostly on the world rankings introduced in the present day, as much as 4 gamers from every nation can take part within the Paris Olympics, and people ranked sixteenth or beneath can enter two gamers from every a rustic If there are two or extra gamers from that nation within the prime 15, no extra spots shall be awarded. The ladies’s golf event, with a complete of 60 contributors, shall be held at Le Golf Nationwide in Paris from August 7 to 10.

Together with the US, the biggest variety of gamers are taking part in Korea. In the US, Taoist Olympic gold medalists Nelly Korda (1st place), Lilia Bu (2nd place), and Rose Zhang (ninth place) certified to take part. Allie Ewing (USA) tied for fifth place within the competitors received by Yang Hee-young, rising her rating by 3 ranges, however missed a ticket as she was sixteenth. As well as, the US Golf Channel stated that Sara Schover (Austria, 330th place) had no likelihood to take part as a result of Korea took three tickets.

Senior Reporter Lee Ki-cheol