In-Kyung Kim became the sixth South Korean player to win on the LPGA Tour this season and had the Rolex Rankings Move of the Week moving up 13 spots to No. 29 with her solid play at the Reignwood LPGA Classic. Kim started the final round three shots off the lead and closed with a seven-under 66 to finish at 24-under par to defeat Mi Jung Hur by one stroke.
“I’m happy with how I played today,” Kim said. “I’ve made many -- I mean, I had to make decisions. There was couple really difficult decisions, but I think kind of I wasn’t really thinking about three shot behind or how many shots I was behind. I knew I had to play my best golf out here, and I just wanted to do that.”
Other Notable Moves:
- Mi Jung Hur moved up 16 spots to No. 39 with runner-up finish in Beijing
- Mariajo Uribe moved up nine spots to No. 115 with her T-7 finish.
- With Lexi Thompson’s move to No. 5, the top 5 spots in the Rolex Rankings are held by players from five different countries.
- No. 1 Lydia Ko – New Zealand
- No. 2 Ariya Jutanugarn – Thailand
- No. 3 In Gee Chun – South Korea
- No. 4 Brooke Henderson – Canada
- No. 5 Lexi Thompson – United States
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