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Ko Jin-young wins Evian Championship for 2nd major title of season

2019-07-29 21 Dailymotion

We begin this morning with news of victory.<br />South Korean golfer Ko Jin-young continued her sensational season by winning her second major of the year in a two-shot victory at the 2019 L-P-G-A Evian Championship.<br />Ko is leading the LPGA Tour this year, having also won one other title and posted seven top-10 finishes.<br />Lee Seung-jae has more on the 24 year-old's victorious game in Evian-les-Bains, France.<br /><br />South Korea's Ko Jin-young didn't let a little rain put a damper on her quest for a second major victory of the season.<br />On Sunday, she fired a 4-under-67 to win the 2019 LPGA Evian Championship at Evian-les-Bains by two strokes with a 15-under-par overall.<br />Despite the start to the fourth and final day of the competition being delayed by two hours due to the wet conditions,... the 24-year-old kept her composure,... and took advantage of her playing partner and close friend Kim Hyo-joo's late collapse to cruise to victory.<br />Her first LPGA title of the season came at the 2019 ANA Inspiration in April.<br />For the 2018 LPGA Rookie of the Year,... the victory means she moves back to number one in the world rankings,... leapfrogging Park Sung-hyun,... who finished the tournament tied for 6th.<br />The winner's check of 615-thousand dollars also catapults her to the top of the LPGA money list with nearly 2-million dollars.<br />Ko's victory also ends a streak of ten different players winning the previous ten majors.<br />And another major kicks off on Thursday,... and it's a big one: the Women's British Open.<br />It's the first time since 1960 that two women's majors have been played in back-to-back weeks.<br />Lee Seung-jae, Arirang News.<br /><br />

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