Women’s World Championship 2022 R4
March 03-06
Sentosa Golf Club, Tanjong Course, Singapore
$1,700,000
Round 1, Round 2, Round 3

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Rolex Rankings No. 1 Jin Young Ko carded a final-round 66 to reach 17-under for a two-stroke victory at the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore.

Women’s World Championship 2022 R4

It is Ko’s sixth win in her last ten LPGA Tour starts and sets two new benchmarks in the record books, marking her 15th consecutive round in the 60s and her 30th consecutive round under par.

“I am just proud of myself to record 60s, 15 rounds like straight. So I'm so happy. I feel amazing right now.”

Women’s World Championship 2022 R4

Early on, Jeongeun Lee6, who started the day in a tie for second with Ko, looked set to win. The 2019 U.S. Women’s Open champion, knocked in four birdies in the opening eight holes and moved to the top of the leaderboard at 15-under through the front nine. Thai teen Atthaya Thitkul kept up with her, with five birdies in the same span to reach 14-under.

Ko made the turn in a tie for third with overnight leader In Gee Chun at 13-under and admitted that the front nine at the New Tanjong Course at Sentosa Golf Club did not set up well for her game.

“I felt not comfortable with my swing in the front nine,” said Ko, who was 5-under on the front nine compared to 12-under on the back nine. “So I expected the back nine will be more better than front nine. So I found something and I got a lot of birdies on the back nine.”

Women’s World Championship 2022 R4

Ko bogeyed at the 12th after mishitting a chip. “I was angry,” she said, “but I thought, yeah, I have five or six more holes, so I can get a lot of birdies.”

She carded birdies at 13, 14, 15 and 16 to pull into a tie with Lee6 at 16-under heading to the final green.

With Ko on the green in two, Lee6’s chip from the back of the green flew into the front rough and she left her punchout well short of the hole, leading to a double bogey. With a 10-foot birdie putt that just caught the left edge of the hole, Ko captured victory in her 2022 LPGA Tour season debut.

Chun’s 3-under 69 on Sunday was not enough to keep up with Ko. She finished in a tie for second with Minjee Lee, whose 9-under 63 was the low round of the tournament, just one stroke off the tournament record.

With her closing double bogey, Lee6 fell to 14-under and tied with Thitikul for fifth.

Women’s World Championship 2022 R4