All posts tagged "Lydia Ko"

  • Lydia Ko poses with the Race to the CME Globe on the left, and CME Group Tour Championship trophy, right, while sitting on the one million prize money from the Globe trophy win, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2014 at the Tiburon Golf Club at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort in Naples, Fla. Today marked the final round of the LPGA's CME Group Tour Championship. Lydia Ko of New Zealand defeated Carlota Ciganda of Spain in a four-hole playoff. (AP Photo/Naples Daily News, Corey Perrine)
    Million Dollar Baby: Lydia Ko takes the biggest payoff in women’s golf

    Korean-born New Zealander wins the $1 million bonus from the inaugural ‘Race to CME Globe’ on Sunday by getting into a three-way playoff. Then, adds an extra $500,000 by defeating Carlota Ciganda of Spain on the fourth...

    • Posted November 23, 2014
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  • LPGA
    How many more LPGA titles will S. Koreans win this year?

    By Brian Han After Baek Kyu-jung’s win at the KEB-HanaBank Championship last week, South Korean golfers have won seven of the last nine LPGA events or eight out of ten if you count Lydia Ko, a Seoul-born...

    • Posted October 23, 2014
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  • Kyu Jung Baek of South Korea poses with the trophy for the media after winning the KEB Hana Bank Championship golf tournament at Sky72 Golf Club in Incheon, South Korea, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    Baek Kyu-jung is the latest S. Korean to win LPGA event

    INCHEON, South Korea (AP) — Baek Kyu-jung of South Korea won a three-way playoff Sunday to claim the LPGA’s KEB-HanaBank Championship. Baek, making the first LPGA start of her career, shot a final-round 67 to finish tied...

    • Posted October 20, 2014
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  • Lydia Ko
    Koreans fall off lead at LPGA KEB-HanaBank Championship

    INCHEON, South Korea (AP) — Karine Icher of France shot a 4-under 68 in the second round to take a one-stroke lead at the top of the European-dominated leaderboard at the KEB-HanaBank Championship on Friday. Icher birdied...

    • Posted October 17, 2014
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  • Michelle Wie hits from the 10th tee box during the second round of the NW Arkansas Championship golf tournament on Sunday, June 29, 2014, in Rogers, Ark. (AP Photo/Beth Hall)
    Michelle Wie falls short of winning two straight

    Stacy Lewis wins NW Arkansas Championship By Lee Kyutae Michelle Wie went into the final round with two-shot lead at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship, but she just didn’t have enough to win back-to-back titles. After all...

    • Posted June 29, 2014
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  • Park Inbee gets a victory shower from Lydia Ko after winning the Manulife Financial LPGA Classic golf tournament Sunday, June 8, 2014 in Waterloo, Ontario. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Dave Chidley)
    Park Inbee wins first LPGA title of year

    Park Inbee of South Korea won the Manulife Financial LPGA Classic golf tournament in Canada on Sunday for her first LPGA Tour title this year.  Park, who fell to No. 2 in the world ranking last week, tore...

    • Posted June 9, 2014
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  • Noh Seung-yul, left, and Lydia Ko raised up championship trophies on the same day. (AP)
    Recent PGA, LPGA winners move up in world rankings

    The most recent winners on the PGA and the LPGA Tours, both of South Korean descent, moved up in the latest world rankings.  Noh Seung-yul, who captured the PGA Tour’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans on Sunday,...

    • Posted April 29, 2014
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