Ko Jin-young (25), who won the 2020 season’s LPGA tour prize money after participating in only four tournaments, expressed his feelings about the unexpected result, “In fact, I didn’t know I could compete in the final game.”
On the 21st (Korean time), Jinyoung Ko won the LPGA Tour CME Group Tour Championship (total prize money of $3 million), which ended in Naples, Florida, with a final total of 18 under par 270 strokes.
Ko Jin-young, who was a joint second place winner of Kim Se-young (27) and Hannah Green (Australia) with a relatively relaxed 5 strokes, received a winning prize of $1.1 million (about 1.2 billion won) and became the LPGA Tour prize winner for the second year in a row.
What’s amazing about this result is that Ko Jin-young’s achievements after playing only 4 out of 18 tournaments this season.
Because of Corona 19, Ko Jin-young appeared in the LPGA Tour for the first time this season and tied for 34th in the Pelican Championship, the first tournament this season.
Earlier this month, Jin-young Ko, who rose to 5th place alone at the VOA Classic, was tied for second at the US Women’s Open last week, winning the competition dramatically.
In the CME Group Tour Championship, which is the final game of the season, only the top 70 CME Globe Races, converted from one season’s performance into points, can come out, but Jin-young Ko must score at least 4th in the US Women’s Open to qualify for this final game.
Jinyoung Ko, who tied for second place in his third tournament of the season and won the CME Group Tour Championship, quickly climbed to the top of the prize money by winning this tournament.
The winning prizes of the last two competitions were US Women’s Open $1 million and CME Group Tour Championships, the largest among LPGA Tour competitions this year, with $1.1 million in the CME Group Tour Championship. I made it a driving force.
The success of winning the 2nd consecutive victory in the LPGA Tour is Jinyoung Ko this year after Park Inbi (32) in 2012 and 2013.
After finishing the competition, Ko Jin-young expressed his feelings in an interview, “I still can’t believe that I came out and won this competition,” and “I took a break in Korea and practiced hard to participate in this competition after coming to the United States.”
In particular, he introduced that he competed with Kim Se-young in the 2nd to 4th rounds in a row in the final game of the season as “we played together several times in Korea, and we were close together,” and “I still had to win because it was a competition. I’m sorry.”
Ko Jin-young conveyed consolation to Kim Se-young, who competed until the end, saying, “I was a little better than Se-young today, but Se-young also played a good game today.”
He said, “Even though the first hole tee shot flew to the left, it was good to start with a birdie.” Putt within 3 meters.”
About the winning prize of $1.1 million, Ko Jin-young laughed, saying, “In fact, I was looking for a house in Texas, but I don’t have a lot of US bank account balances.”
He drove 5 birdies from the remaining 7 holes from the 12th hole (par 3). “In fact, I didn’t see the scoreboard, I just knew it was the lead.” He told me, and in the last hall, he advised,’A real professional should have a perfect finish.’
In the end, Jin-young Ko decorated the last hole with a neat birdie and celebrated his second consecutive victory in LPGA Tour Gold.
(Photo = Getty Image Korea)
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