NAPLES, Fla. – In Gee Chun quietly persevered through more pain this season than she let anyone outside her team know.
Chun joined Nancy Lopez Sunday as the only players to win the Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year Award and Vare Trophy for low scoring average in the same season.
Chun did so on playing the CME Group Tour Championship’s final round on pain medication and anti-inflammatories.
“It’s a huge achievement,” Dr. Won Park, Chun’s swing coach, said. “We never imagined this would happen at the start of the season, but she kept getting better, going from one level to the next, and then it seemed like the sky was the limit.