Lydia Ko probably looks at the current CME Globe points listing and just shrugs. After all, one year ago she was well behind in September – in third place more than 1,500 points behind leader Stacy Lewis – and she ended up winning the inaugural CME Globe title with a victory in the final event.
Ko faced a somewhat smaller but similar deficit entering last week’s Canadian Pacific Women’s Open, trailing Inbee Park by 903 points. But with a victory in Vancouver as Park finished tied for ninth, the 18-year-old from New Zealand halved that margin (now down 458 points). Neither player is teeing it up this week at the Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic in Alabama, but the Asian Swing lurks over the next two months, just after the season’s final major championship, The Evian Championship.
Park and Ko are the only players to win three or more times on the LPGA this season and have combined to win seven of the 22 tournaments.
Here’s a quick statistical match-up between them:
| Player | CME Globe (Rank) | Earnings (Rank) | Scoring (Rank) | GIR (Rank) | Putting (Rank) |
| Inbee Park | 3,726 (1) | $2,243,103 (1) | 69.4 (1) | 75% (4) | 29.1 (10) |
| Lydia Ko | 3,268 (2) | $1,703,422 (2) | 69.681 (2) | 76.7% (1) | 29.5 (23) |
The Race to the CME Globe is a season-long points competition in which LPGA Members accumulate points in every Official LPGA Tournament. At the end of the season, the winning player will be named the “Race to the CME Globe Champion.” The competition began at the Coates Golf Championship, continues through the Lorena Ochoa Invitational Presented by Banamex in Mexico and concludes with a points reset for the CME Group Tour Championship in Naples, Florida the week before Thanksgiving.
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