NAPLES, Fla. – Jin Young Ko missed most of the LPGA Tour season and still won the yearlong money title.
That's what a $1.1 million check does.
Ko, the No. 1 player in the world, put an emphatic capper on her truncated year Sunday by shooting a final-round 6-under 66 and winning the CME Group Tour Championship by five strokes over Hannah Green and Sei Young Kim.
With a birdie on the final hole, the LPGA's final putt of the season, Ko finished at 18 under for her seventh career LPGA win. Green's final-round 67 – on her 24th birthday – helped push her into the second-place tie.