The Korean LPGA is becoming a stronger rival to the American-based LPGA, according to the South Korean-based Yonhap News Agency.
According to a story Wednesday by the news organization, Sung Hyun Park is “proving” to other South Korean players that “a U.S. LPGA membership is no longer essential for success – financial or otherwise.”
Park won the KLPGA’s Hanwha Financial Classic Sunday in South Korea, defeating a strong field that included Americans Lexi Thompson and Jessica Korda. Park took home a first-place check of 300 million South Korean won, the equivalent of $297,000 U.