ANA Inspiration
Mission Hills Country Club
Rancho Mirage, Calif.
April 3, 2016
Birthplace/Hometown – South Korea/Auckland, New Zealand
Birthdate – April 24, 1997 – currently 18 years, 11 months, and 9 days
Qualified for LPGA Tour – Granted Membership for the 2014 season by LPGA Commissioner Mike Whan
Turned Professional – October 2013
VICTORIES
LLPGA: 12th career victory; 2nd career major title; 2nd victory this season
- Becomes the youngest player in LPGA history to win two major titles
- Moves into 39th on the LPGA all-time wins list
PREVIOUS WINS: 2012 CN Canadian Women’s Open; 2013 CN Canadian Women’s Open (both as an amateur); 2014 Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic; 2014 Marathon Classic Presented by Owens Corning and O-I, 2014 CME Group Tour Championship, 2015 ISPS Handa Women’s Australian Open, 2015 Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic, 2015 CP Women’s Open, 2015 Evian Championship, 2015 Fubon LPGA Taiwan Championship, 2016 Kia Classic
ROLEX RANKINGS
- With her victory, Lydia will keep the No. 1 spot in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings
- Ko will remain in the No. 1 position for the 24th consecutive week. This is her second career stint in the top position.
MONEY
CAREER: With the $390,000 first-place check, Lydia moves to 36th on the LPGA Career Money List with $5,893,957
SEASON: Lydia will remain first on the LPGA Tour Official Money List with $1,004,122 and crosses the $1 million mark in season earnings for the third-consecutive year
RACE TO THE CME GLOBE
- Earns 625 points toward the Race to the CME Globe standings and moves from 2nd to 1st in the race with 1,971 points
TOURNAMENT SPECIFIC
Previous Finishes at the ANA Inspiration
- 2015: T51 (+3)
- 2014: T29 (+2)
- 2013: T25 (-2)
2016 IN A NUTSHELL
- 6 events played, 6 cuts made, $1,004,122, 2 victories, 3 additional top-3s
OF NOTE
- Joins Ha Na Jang as the only multiple winners on the LPGA Tour this season
- Becomes the second-youngest winner of this event and is exactly one month older than Morgan Pressel’s age (18 years/10 months/9 days) at the time of her win
- Becomes just the third player to win this major and the LPGA event prior (Annika Sorenstam did it twice (2001 & 2005) and Lorena Ochoa (2008))
- Is the first player to win on the LPGA Tour in back-to-back weeks since Inbee Park won three in a row in 2013 (Wegmans LPGA Championship, Walmart NW Arkansas Championship, U.S. Women’s Open)
- Becomes the first player since Inbee Park in 2013 to win the LPGA event prior to a major (Walmart NW Arkansas Championship and U.S. Women’s Open)
- Became the youngest major champion in LPGA history (18 years, 4 months and 20 days) with her win at the 2015 Evian
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- Became the youngest player in LPGA Tour history to reach 10 wins (18y/6m/1d) ; beating Nancy Lopez’s previous record (22y/2m/5d)
- Ko has won the Race to the CME Globe in each of its first two years (2014 & 2015)
- Became the youngest winner in LPGA history on August 19, 2012 at the 72-hole Canadian Women’s Open at the age of 15 years, 4 months and 2 days
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