Chevron Championship Winner Bu: "Now I'm 'Number 4'~"
Women's Golf Weekly World Rankings Jump 8 Spots
Korda 1st, Lydia Ko 2nd, Ko Jin-young 3rd
'Major Queen' Lilia Vu (USA) has jumped to 4th place in the world rankings.
![Lilia Buga is taking a selfie holding the trophy right after winning the Major Chevron Championship. [Houston, USA = AFP·Yonhap News]](http://www.asiae.co.kr/news/img_view.htm?img=2023042509304699926_1682382647.jpeg)
Lilia Buga is taking a selfie holding the trophy right after winning the Major Chevron Championship. [Houston, USA = AFP·Yonhap News]
View original imageVu earned 6.35 points in the women's golf world rankings announced on the 24th (local time), rising 8 spots from 12th place last week. Vu accumulated points by winning the first major of the 2023 LPGA Tour season, the Chevron Championship (total prize money $5.1 million), which concluded the day before at The Club at Carlton Woods Jack Nicklaus Signature Course (par 72) in Houston, Texas. This is her second career win, two months after her first victory at the Honda LPGA Thailand in February, with a winner's prize of $765,000 (approximately 1 billion KRW).
Nelly Korda (USA) reclaimed the No. 1 spot, pushing Lydia Ko (New Zealand) down to 2nd place. It has been 148 days since Korda lost the top spot to Ko in November last year. Korda finished 3rd at the Chevron Championship, while Lydia Ko was eliminated in the qualifiers.
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Ko Jin-young is 3rd, Atthaya Thitikul (Thailand) 5th, Minjee Lee (Australia) 6th, Lexi Thompson (USA) 7th, Brooke Henderson (Canada) 8th, C?line Boutier (France) 9th, and Georgia Hall (England) 10th. South Korea's Kim Hyo-joo is 11th, Jeon Ji-eun 12th, Park Min-ji 23rd, and Choi Hye-jin 25th. Choi Eun-woo, winner of the Nexen·Saintnine Masters on the Korean Ladies Professional Golf Association (KLPGA) Tour, jumped 71 spots to 148th place.
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