'Major Queen' Yoo Hyunjo enters top 100 in world rankings

KB Financial Star Championship Victory Points Earned
Last Week 172nd, Jumped 86 Places to 86th
Korda, Boo, Lydia Ko 1st~3rd, Ko Jin-young 5th

‘Major Queen’ Yoo Hyun-jo entered the top 100 in the world rankings.

Yoo Hyun-jo is smiling while holding the trophy immediately after winning the KB Financial Star Championship.
[Photo by KLPGA]

In the women's golf weekly world rankings announced on the 9th (local time), she earned 1.32 points and jumped 86 spots from 172nd last week to 86th place. She accumulated points by winning the KB Financial Star Championship (total prize money 1.2 billion KRW), the fourth major tournament of the Korean Ladies Professional Golf Association (KLPGA) Tour season, which concluded on the 8th at Blackstone Icheon Golf Club (par 72) in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province, with a score of 13-under-par 275. She achieved her first victory in 19 tournaments since debuting on the KLPGA Tour this year. The winner's prize money was 216 million KRW.

Yoo Hyun-jo is the first rookie to win a major tournament on the KLPGA Tour since Lim Hee-jung at this event in 2019, marking a five-year gap. She is the first rookie winner this season, and her major tournament win is the 10th by a rookie player in history. Additionally, Yoo Hyun-jo is the first rookie to claim her first tour victory at a major tournament in 11 years since Jeon In-ji at the 2013 Korea Women's Open.

There were no significant changes as no LPGA Tour events were held. Nelly Korda, Lilia Vu (both from the United States), and Lydia Ko (New Zealand) maintained the ‘Top 3’ positions. Korea’s Ko Jin-young dropped one spot to 5th. Yang Hee-young is 6th, Yoo Hae-ran 11th, Kim Hyo-joo 17th, and Shin Ji-ae remained 24th. Among KLPGA Tour members, Lee Ye-won ranked 33rd, Park Ji-young 37th, and Yoon Yi-na 42nd.

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