Lilia Bu (USA), who won the AIG Women's Open and topped two of the five major tournaments this year after the Chevron Championship in April, became the world's No. 1 player for the first time.
In the world rankings of women's golf announced on the 15th, Boo rose five notches from sixth place last week.
Bu, a Vietnamese-American descendant of the "Boat People," entered the LPGA Tour in 2019 and won her first victory in Honda LPGA Thailand in February this year. Following the first major Chevron Championship of the season in April, he won the championship in the last major tournament, sweeping three wins this year alone.
It is the first time in four years since Ko Jin-young in 2019 that she has won two major tournaments in a single season on the LPGA Tour and the first time in 24 years for an American player since Julie Inkster in 1999. Boo has also been confirmed to win the "Annika Major Award" given to the best-performing player at the women's golf major tournament held in the year. 스포츠토토
While Boo, who swept three wins, including two major wins in the past six months, stood as the "world number one," Nelly Koda (U.S.), who had been in first place until last week, and Ko Jin-young, who had been in second place, fell to third place, respectively. Celine Butier (France), fifth in Inluning (China), and sixth in Lydia Ko (New Zealand), while Kim Hyo-joo, who tied for fourth at the AIG Women's Open, remained in seventh place. Veteran Shin Ji-yai, who ranked third in the same tournament and performed the best among Korean players, rose eight notches to 17th place from 25th last week.
Lee Ye-won, who won her second win of the season at the Doosan Engineering & Construction Weve Championship on the Korea Ladies Professional Golf Association (KLPGA) Tour on the 13th, rose three notches from 42nd to 39th.