Final Match Winner Yang Hee-young 'World Ranking 36th → 15th'

Official Weekly Women's Golf World Rankings Announced
Lilia Bu, Inluoning, Butie Rank 1st to 3rd
Koda 4th, Ko Jinyoung 6th, Kim Hyoju 7th

Veteran Yang Hee-young has risen to 15th in the world rankings.

Yang Hee-young is taking a selfie holding the trophy right after winning the CME Group Tour Championship. [Naples (USA) = AFP·Yonhap News]

On the 20th (local time), she received 4.38 points in the weekly women's golf world rankings, jumping an impressive 21 spots from 36th place last week. She accumulated points by winning the CME Group Tour Championship (total prize money $7 million), the final event of the 2023 LPGA Tour season, which concluded at the Tiburon Golf Club Gold Course (par 72) in Naples, Florida, USA the day before. This is her 5th career victory, her first in 4 years and 9 months since the Honda LPGA Thailand in February 2019, with a winner's prize of $2 million (approximately 2.6 billion KRW).

Lilia Vu (USA), who has won 4 times this season and swept individual titles such as the money list, Player of the Year, CME Globe Race, and Annika Major Award, firmly held the 1st place. Lin Xiyu (China) is 2nd, and C?line Boutier (France) is in 3rd place. Nelly Korda (USA) jumped 2 spots to 4th, while Ko Jin-young dropped 2 places to 6th. South Korea's Kim Hyo-joo is 7th, Shin Ji-ae 16th, Yoo Hae-ran 29th, Park Min-ji 32nd, Jeon Eon-ji 33rd, Choi Hye-jin 34th, and Lee Ye-won is in 36th place.

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