SINGAPORE — World No. 1 Jin Younger Ko birdied the 18th gap on Sunday for a 6-under 66 to win the LPGA Tour’s HSBC Girls’s World Championship in Singapore by two strokes over fellow South Korean participant In Gee Chun and Australian Minjee Lee.
Ko has gained six occasions in her final 10 begins and her spherical of 66 set the LPGA Tour’s all-time document for many consecutive rounds within the 60s (15) and most consecutive sub-par rounds (30).
Ko was making her return to the LPGA Tour after a three-month break which included time along with her household in South Korea earlier than a couple of weeks of intensive observe in Palm Springs, California.
She completed with a 72-hole whole of 17-under 271 on the Sentosa Golf Membership’s Tanjong Course. Lee shot 63 for the most effective spherical of the day whereas Chun, who led by a stroke after the third spherical, shot 69.
Jeongeun Lee6 was tied with Ko on the 18th however had a double-bogey 6 to complete with a 69 and tied for fourth with Atthaya Thitikul of Thailand (67).
Three gamers had been tied for sixth, 4 strokes behind Ko — Australian Hannah Inexperienced (66), Canadian Brooke Henderson (67) and Amy Yang of South Korea, who shot 68.
